14 July 2021
“Comcast has flouted the terms of the parties’” agreement and refused to pay “millions of dollars,” the suit said
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NEW YORK The increasingly bitter retransmission dispute between Nexstar and Comcast over WPIX in New York City, has prompted Nexstar to file a lawsuit asking the court to find “Comcast liable for breach of contract” and award Nexstar damages.
“Nexstar was forced to bring this action because Comcast has flouted the terms of the parties’ retransmission consent agreement and refused to pay millions of dollars in fees owed to Nexstar,” the lawsuit stated. It was filed the Supreme Court Of The State Of New York, County Of New York.
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President Biden’s recent “Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy” (Order) promotes fair competition regulations across a diverse group of key U.S. industries, including telecom, technology, banking and finance, and agriculture. The Order includes 72 separate initiatives involving more than a dozen federal agencies.
This update discusses three provisions of the Order likely to have significant effects on the telecom and related tech industry.
First, the Order calls for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reinstate the Obama-era net neutrality rules repealed during the Trump administration. If reinstated, these rules would prohibit Broadband Internet Access Service (BIAS) providers from impairing internet service by throttling speeds or blocking access to online services or websites.
A new F.C.C. rule is meant to help cut down on robocalls.
Americans get millions of illegal robocalls every month.Credit.Steven Senne/Associated Press
July 14, 2021
Americans get millions of illegal robocalls every month, despite attempts by the telecommunications industry and government agencies to stop them.
The Federal Communications Commission the government agency that regulates communications is trying to cut down on the calls with new rules that went into effect on June 30, Christine Hauser reports for The New York Times.
Here’s how it works.
In short, the F.C.C. is trying to make sure that if you’re getting a call, the network on which it is being made is verifying the caller.
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The pandemic isolated incarcerated people. Kentucky and Securus cashed in. The Department of Corrections made at least $3.2 million last year off of incarcerated people’s phone calls, financial records obtained by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting have revealed.
by Jared Bennett |
July 14, 2021
For over 460 days, as the pandemic shut down visitation across the state, incarcerated people and their loved ones relied on the prison system’s costly phone calls and emails.
The Kentucky Department of Corrections and Securus Technologies reaped big rewards.
Records show the Department of Corrections made at least $3.2 million last year off phone calls that cost the loved ones of incarcerated people up to 25 cents per minute.