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• AT&T connects NetBond VPN access to Amazon Web Services

  AT&T's NetBond service for secure access to third-party clouds will soon work with the biggest one of all, Amazon Web Services.

• AT&T to put service setup in enterprise customers' hands

  AT&T says enterprises are about to reap the benefits of the software-defined transformation of its network with faster service setup through an online portal.

• FCC gets record number of net neutrality comments, what now?

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's deadline for the public to comment on the agency's proposed net neutrality rules passed Monday with more than 3 million comments filed, by far a record number for an FCC proceeding.

• New survey raises questions about net neutrality regulation, advocacy group says

  More than two-thirds of U.S. respondents in a new survey say that decades-old telephone regulations should not apply to the Internet, which suggests that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission should stay away from reclassifying broadband as a regulated public utility, an advocacy group said.

• AT&T's network core is growing up to serve watches, IoT

  Back-end technology that AT&T implemented partly for VoLTE (voice over LTE) will help make the Apple Watch and other connected devices useful.

• AT&T and Box to pave secure path to cloud content via VPN

  Box and AT&T plan to lock down cloud file-sharing with a service that places enterprise content behind an AT&T VPN.

• Groups: FCC shouldn't overturn state laws against municipal broadband

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should stay out of the way of states that have passed laws prohibiting or limiting city-funded broadband networks that compete with private services, several groups have told the agency.

• FCC allowed to question AT&T, Verizon on business broadband pricing

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has the green light to collect new data on the pricing of so-called special access services, the middle-mile network services used to deliver business broadband and mobile service backhaul.

• Public Knowledge readies complaint on mobile traffic throttling

  Digital rights group Public Knowledge will file net neutrality complaints against each of the four largest mobile carriers in the U.S. over their practice of throttling some traffic, in some cases on so-called unlimited data plans.

• Senate committee: Mobile phone 'cramming' widespread, profits carriers

  Mobile carriers have pulled in hundreds of millions in profits through third-party charges tacked onto customers' bills without their consent, according to a report from a U.S. Senate committee.

• More AT&T customers switch to paying for their phones

  A majority of AT&T's new smartphone customers are now choosing a plan where they pay for their phones over time, helping to drive strong second-quarter financial results, the carrier said.

• Highs and lows of CEO pay

  This year's proxy season has come to a close, and after digging through regulatory filings, 10 highlights stand out in our analysis of 62 tech CEOs' compensation.

• Standalone wearables coming this year, AT&T executive says

  The most successful wearable devices will be ones that can work without a phone, and AT&T will have at least one of them by the end of this year, the man who manages the carrier's partnerships said.

• Mobile payments upstart Isis rebrands to distance itself from extremist group

  Isis, a mobile payments service that has struggled to gain traction despite the backing of AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, is now working toward a new name to avoid association with the Sunni militant group formerly known as ISIS.

• FCC looking into Internet peering complaints from Netflix, consumers

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is looking into complaints from Netflix and some Internet backbone providers that several large broadband providers have been refusing for years to upgrade their backbone connections as a way to slow video traffic that competes with their own services.