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Comcast/NBC To Split Back Into Smaller, Shittier Companies

Comcast/NBC To Split Back Into Smaller, Shittier Companies

For a while there, you might remember how giant telecom monopolies, running out of new subscribers, all decided to get into the media business. But because terrible telecom monopoly executives can’t innovate and generally don’t know how competition works, it …

TechdirtJul 8
UK's Virgin Media fined $28m for hanging up on people calling to cancel

UK's Virgin Media fined $28m for hanging up on people calling to cancel

Virgin Media was fined $28m by telecom regulators in the U.K. over its tactics to prevent customers canceling their service. The method was not especially sophisticated: its agents would simply hang up on customers or put them on hold until they hung up thems…

Boing BoingJul 8
Verizon pays BT $625M in telecom shakeup

Verizon pays BT $625M in telecom shakeup

BT Group spent more than 18 months looking for a buyer for its international business. Nobody bit. So BT did something different: It gave half of its interna...

TheStreetJul 1
The Korean Telecom Giant At the Center of Anthropic's Mythos Controversy

The Korean Telecom Giant At the Center of Anthropic's Mythos Controversy

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: The Trump administration's move to impose export controls on Anthropic's most powerful AI technology followed a spat over the company granting South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom access to its Claude Mythos mo…

Slashdot.orgJun 19
The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic’s Mythos Controversy

The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic’s Mythos Controversy

Days before Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline, the White House ordered the company to revoke SK Telecom’s access to Claude Mythos over claims of alleged ties to China.

WiredJun 17