August 20, 2021 McDowell (NC) News McDowell County (NC) Commissioners hear about Charter’s broadband Internet efforts WPXI-TV, Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Democrats praise $1T infrastructure bill TV Technology The Broadband Boom Continues: 890K New U.S. Broadband Subs Added in 2Q 2021 Politico How the Apple lobbying machine took on Georgia, and won LightReading T-Mobile's spectrum swap with Verizon hints at merger progress Associated Press FTC sharpens antitrust attack against Facebook with new filing The Hill Facebook launches virtual reality office space as part of 'metaverse' plan Bloomberg OnlyFans to Bar Sexually Explicit Videos Starting in October Reuters ‘Paw Patrol’ unleashed: Behind ViacomCBS’s plan to take on Disney Beaver County Times Op-ed: New political party takes aim at Pennsylvania's broken politics Wall Street Journal T-Mobile Faces Regulatory Scrutiny After Hack A Federal Communications Commission probe into the hack of T-Mobile US Inc. is the agency’s first high- profile cyber inquiry under a Biden administration that has promised to more aggressively police companies’ security standards and privacy safeguards. The hack, which T-Mobile disclosed on Monday, hit a communications sector in which cyber oversight is spread across federal agencies, including the FCC, which has taken a largely hands-off approach to data security in recent years. READ MORE Associated Press Pa. senator’s plan to issue election subpoenas ‘stopped’ A backer of former President Donald Trump’s effort to carry out an Arizona-style partisan review of Pennsylvania’s 2020 presidential election suggested Thursday that fellow Republicans in the State Senate are blocking his efforts. In a video posted on Facebook, State Sen. Doug Mastriano (R., Franklin) did not name names, but blamed “the powers that be” for preventing him from holding a meeting of the committee he chairs to vote on issuing subpoenas to counties for election equipment and materials. READ MORE Philadelphia Daily News Chris Brennan’s “Clout” column: What becomes of a Northeast Philly seat?; Chris Christie jabs at Phil Murphy about vacation If Sen. John Sabatina Jr. (D-Philadelphia) wins a judicial seat in November, he would resign from the Senate in January, which would prompt a special election. Sabatina won the 5th District seat in a 2015 special election and secured a second full term last year with no Republican challenger. Democrats outnumber Republicans in the district, 61% to 25.5%, with 13.5% registered as independents or with smaller parties. The city’s Democratic and Republican Parties would select special-election candidates. READ MORE Broadband Cable Association of Pennsylvania .