Top Story n nWall Street Journal* –- The FCC awarded a British company a contract for $600,000 for nsensors to test the home broadband speeds of U.S. volunteers (The Hill). nAmong Others nCommunications Daily* –- Spectrum inventory and caller ID bills are headed to the House floor nas early as Wednesday (p1; The Hill). nBarrons* –- A New York Times op-ed piece by Susan Crawford, a former tech adviser in the nObama White House, encouraged the FCC to regulate broadband as telecom service (Reuters; nWashington Post). nNational Journal –- The National Governors Association asked the FCC to give the D-block to nemergency agencies instead of auctioning it to a commercial bidder as planned. nWSJ -- The Communications Workers of America is fighting Verizon’s proposed sale of nlandlines in 14 states to Frontier. n --- France Telecom is under a preliminary criminal investigation concerning the suicides of ndozens of employees in recent years (Financial Times*). nCharlotte (N.C.) Business Journal –- FairPoint is building up its cash holdings to emerge from nChapter 11 reorganization. nFT –- Big European incumbents are demanding that Google start paying them for bandwidth. nBloomberg News –- Palm is seeking bidders for the company as early as this week. nFortune –- The proportion of U.S. teenagers in a Piper Jaffray survey who say they plan to buy niPhones within six months has doubled in a year to almost one-third).
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