TELECOM IN TODAY'S NEWS

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Top StorynnWall Street Journal* -- The first broadband stimulus grants won't be awarded until December, a month later than planned (Communications Daily*, p1). nnnAmong OthersnnWashington Post -- The GAO said telework in an H1N1 emergency could overwhelm the Internet.nn -- Technology policy adviser Susan Crawford will return to the University of Michigan law school in January from the White House.nn -- The Internet Innovation Alliance named David Sutphen, who was a senior executive of Viacom and the Recording Industry Association of America, as a co-chairman.nnWSJ -- The FCC is looking at taking airwaves back from TV broadcasters to auction to wireless companies for broadband.nn -- The smartphone market is getting very crowded as products from Motorola, Palm and HTC struggle flow in to take the leaders from on Apple and Research In Motion.nnCD -- A federal appeals court upheld a district judge's ruling that AT&T's mandatory-arbitration clause for cellular customers violates California law (p2).nnNew York Times -- The European Commission will ask the 27 European Union countries to make a uniform broadcast spectrum band available for a wireless broadband network.nnBloomberg News -- Qwest's Q3 profit dropped but beat analysts' expectations.nnUSA Today -- Latvian carrier Tele2 promised to pay the costs of the military and scientific response to a meteorite strike it faked as a stunt.nnCNet -- Google is preparing the much-anticipated release of Android 2.0, with support for multitouch and many other new features.n n_____________________nn*Access by paid subscription only. Free trials of Communications Daily and Washington Internet Daily are available.