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etc: Time Warner Cable customers in Dallas can now get 50Mbps Internet service.
Time Warner Cable customers in Dallas can now get 50Mbps Internet service. Read More: Broadband Reports Read the comments on this post
Continue reading »TiVo: Cable is strangling our business with SDV
TiVo filed a cri de coeur (PDF) this week with the FCC, saying that its entire business is at risk of being shut down by the cable industry. In contrast to VCRs, which were a “thriving and intensely competitive market” in the 1990s, TiVo is the “only major competitive entrant left standing” in the DVR world. That’s no accident, says the company, and it’s not the result of natural market forces.
Continue reading »etc: Comcast and NBC Universal have officially asked for the Department of Justice’s blessing on their union.
Comcast and NBC Universal have officially asked for the Department of Justice’s blessing on their union. Read More: Broadcasting & Cable
Continue reading »Digital Dividend could cost cable TV dear
EU to evaluate interference claims The EU is to investigate claims that 4G mobile networks could knock out cable TV, if allowed to deploy in the “Digital Dividend” spectrum.…
Continue reading »Blank TV screens instead of programs?
p2pnet news view Politics | TV:- In the weeks leading to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission hearing on broadcasting licences, Canadians were inundated with splashy advertising campaigns claiming that new fees for local signals were either a TV tax or would save local television. With all of the major broadcasters and cable companies appearing before the commission, the fee-for-carriage (or value-for-signal) issue unsurprisingly took centre stage at last week’s hearing. Yet those convinced that the broadcaster plan was limited to a new fee were in for a rude awakening.
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