TELECOM IN TODAY'S NEWS

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Top StorynnCommunications Daily* –- Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, promised to adjust, in response to cellular industry and police objections, a bill she had introduced to allow prisons to block mobile service (p2). nnAmong OthersnnWired.com –- The Obama administration asked a U.S. district judge to throw out as a threat to national security a lawsuit alleging that the NSA vacuums up the content of phone and e-mail traffic.nnUSA Today –- Apple changed its iTunes software to end easy syncing by Palm Pres mimicking iPhones (Wall Street Journal*).nnPacific Business Journal (Honolulu) –- Hawaii’s governor said she will allow to become law a bill letting Hawaiian Telcom introduce services without getting the Public Utility Commission’s permission.nnGuardian (U.K.) –- Carrier rivalries are holding back mobile broadband in the rural U.K. nnCBC –- Canadian regulators expect to decide by November -- based on hearings held this month and final comments due before August -- on Internet application throttling and notice to customer.nnCNet.com –- Verizon was the vendor that did worst in a survey of IT professionals, and AT&T and Sprint Nextel also fared poorly.nnWSJ –- Nokia said its profit slumped by two-thirds in the June quarter (Financial Times*).nnFT –- Sony Ericsson reported a $300 million loss for the June quarter (Bloomberg News).nn –- MatlinPatterson, a private-equity firm that’s one of Nortel’s biggest creditors, is trying to recruit strategic partners to propose a sweeping reorganization and recapitalization of the manufacturer.nnReuters –- Workers with gas canisters that turned out to be empty pressed Nortel into negotiating the terms of their layoffs from a doomed plant near Paris that they threatened to blow up.n n_____________________nn*Access by paid subscription only. Free trials of Communications Daily and Washington Internet Daily are available.