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Dec 3, 2024 | 
highspeedinternet.com | - Peter Christiansen |Peter Christiansen |Jessica Brooksby
Fiber customers can now stay connected even if the network goes down AT&T recently announced its new Internet Backup feature, which keeps customers online with a reliable cellular connection to their gateway if fiber becomes unavailable. This feature will require an eligible AT&T unlimited postpaid wireless plan but will use customers’ existing fiber internet equipment at no additional cost.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
highspeedinternet.com | - Peter Christiansen |Peter Christiansen |Jessica Brooksby
Starlink's competitor has the technology but needs regulatory approval Another new satellite company has entered the field of direct-to-smartphone services. Texas-based AST SpaceMobile recently announced that it had successfully deployed its first five low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. These are the company’s first production satellites to follow its successful prototype launch two years ago.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
highspeedinternet.com | - Peter Christiansen |Peter Christiansen |Jessica Brooksby
New satellite startup is focusing on secure communications for military and enterprise customers Logos Space, a new satellite startup founded by former Google and SpaceX executives, has filed paperwork with the FCC to begin building its own low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation, similar to SpaceX’s Starlink and Amazon’s upcoming Project Kuiper.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
highspeedinternet.com | - Peter Christiansen |Peter Christiansen |Jessica Brooksby
Spectrum is sponsoring competitive gaming in LA and beyond NRG Esports, the American esports organization, has announced that it is renewing and expanding its partnership with Spectrum internet. This new agreement will continue the naming rights for the NRG Spectrum Castle, its Los Angeles arena, as well as Spectrum’s status as the company’s exclusive television, internet, and mobile provider.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
highspeedinternet.com | - Peter Christiansen |Peter Christiansen |Jessica Brooksby
The agency is fighting back against scammy subscriptions We all have to deal with a lot more subscriptions these days. In addition to the proliferation of streaming services, a lot of tech companies have discovered that instead of selling us something once, they can make us pay for it every month. Unsurprisingly, thousands of people have been complaining to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) about getting stuck in subscriptions that they can’t cancel.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
highspeedinternet.com | - Peter Christiansen |Peter Christiansen |Jessica Brooksby
Smaller ISPs must also make plan details transparent for consumers As of Oct. 10, 2024, all internet service providers (ISPs) will be required to display broadband information labels alongside their internet plans. Often referred to as “broadband nutrition labels” due to their similar look and role to the nutrition labels required on all food sold in the U.S., these broadband labels rolled out earlier this year for larger providers.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
highspeedinternet.com | - Peter Christiansen |Peter Christiansen |Jessica Brooksby
China caught spying on the U.S. spying on its citizens According to research conducted by the Wall Street Journal, a hacking group tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of U.S. broadband providers, including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, potentially accessing systems used for court-ordered network wiretapping. These hackers may have had access to this “vast collection of internet traffic” undetected for months.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
highspeedinternet.com | - Peter Christiansen |Peter Christiansen |Jessica Brooksby
Learn how to perform a reverse image search Searching by image, sometimes referred to as a reverse image search, is a handy skill to have. It’s useful whether you’re trying to track down an image source, looking for a similar image, or just searching for something when you don’t know exactly what it’s called. There are a few different ways to go about searching by image, so we’re going to walk you through the basics.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
highspeedinternet.com | - Peter Christiansen |Peter Christiansen |Jessica Brooksby
Use keyboard shortcuts to take a screenshot on MacOS Taking a screenshot on a Mac uses different keys than you might be familiar with on Windows, but it’s just as easy. There are even several variations that can save you a few steps in getting the screenshot you want. How to take a basic screenshot Step 1: Press and hold Shift + Command + 3.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
highspeedinternet.com | - Peter Christiansen |Peter Christiansen
Online trends from the pandemic are here to stay One of the big takeaways from our previous Internet Usage Report was how much the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way that people used the internet. Lockdowns, school closures, and abundant Zoom meetings increased people’s reliance on the internet, making it even more of a necessity than it had been before the pandemic. In contrast, perhaps the biggest takeaway of this year’s survey is how little things have changed.
