• AT&T's Donovan defends network, touts connected devices [fiercewireless.com]
• NTIA awards another approximately $13.5 million to seven more states [multichannel.com]
• Lessons From the War Over Skype [nytimes.com]
• Voice Is Cable’s Secret Weapon for Growth [gigaom.com]
• UK provider takes cue from AT&T debacle, throttles iPhone users [theinquirer.net]
• Court Says Telenor Doesn't Need To Block The Pirate Bay [techdirt.com]
• Verizon's Buzz for Motorola's Droid Fizzles at Day's End [cio-today.com]
• Venezuelan Government Blames Video Games For Violence, Implements Widespread Ban [techdirt.com]

The weekend has finally arrived. Chat among yourselves in the comment section below.

Part of the problem with the FCC's current rules governing network neutrality is that they're so incredibly vague, they're useless when trying to crack down on anti-competitive behavior by ISPs. Were you the dubious sort, you might argue they were intentionally made that way to give the illusion that the FCC was engaged in a pro-consumer action when really just pandering to major carriers. Regardless of why they're murky, the entire reason for the FCC re-crafting these neutrality rules is to design more concrete guidelines that actually, well, work.

The new rules are only just getting cooked up at the FCC, but a group of law professors have taken an early look and say there's a serious problem: namely that, you guessed it, they're so murky and vague that they might not actually be useful.

Somewhat lost in the news coverage of Clearwire's accelerating launch of Mobile WiMax markets is a simple question: does the service actually work well? As we noted a few weeks ago, there's a significant number of new Clearwire customers in our forums who haven't been exactly thrilled with the new Mobile WiMax service's speed, range or availability. Those complaints continue, with one user e-mailing us to note his experience as a new Clearwire customer has been, for lack of a more scientific term, sucky.

"I signed up for the service on Monday and took it back to my apartment to see how it worked for me," says the Broadband Reports reader, who lives in Dallas. "I noticed immediately that the signal inside my apartment was incredibly low, only 1 bar for service which resulted in sub-dialup speeds." The solution? Opening the window.

We've certainly levied more than our fair share of criticism at Comcast over the years, but late yesterday the cable giant took one hell of a beating for doing, well, absolutely nothing. It began when Slashdot posted a story saying that Comcast had imposed a new throttling system. Comcast actually hadn't -- the story Slashdot linked to was nearly a year old and explored a throttling system Comcast implemented almost a year ago.

No matter, apparently.