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When The FCC Chairman Comforted Cable

Art Brodsky | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Comcast, Julius Genachowski, AT&T, Federal Communications Commission, Data Caps, Technology News

There probably was no great need for Comcast to raise the usage caps on its broadband service, as it did last week from 250 GB to 300 GB per month. If the company thought for an instant that the modest increase bought it any good will from its theoretical regulators, it needn't have bothered.

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Free WiFi If You Subscribe To One Of These Cable Companies

The Huffington Post | Sara Gates | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: 50000 Hotspots, Time Warner Cable, Video, Wi-Fi Networks, Giant Wi-Fi Network, Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Cox Communications, Cablewifi, Comcast, Cable Companies Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi, Cable Companies Share Wifi, Free Wifi, Cablewifi Network, Technology News

Five major U.S. cable companies have joined forces to create a giant WiFi network with more than 50,000 hotspots across the nation. The joint effort h...

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Ad Skipping: Careful What You Wish For

Dennis O'Brien | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Mad Men, Abc, Les Moonves CBS, Les Moonves, DISH Network, Cable Tv, Comcast, Hulu, Cbs, Modern Family, Nbc, TV News

No one likes watching TV commercials, except, perhaps, during the Super Bowl. Even those whose livelihoods depend on them have a hard time convincing family members not to fast forward past them in this DVR age.

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Largest U.S. Internet Service Provider Announces Overage Fee

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Comcast Download Fee, Internet, Video, Comcast Download, Comcast Fee, Comcast, Ap, Comcast Data Caps, Comcast Charge for Heavy Download Usage, Technology News

NEW YORK (AP) — Comcast Corp., the country's largest Internet service provider, is going to start charging extra when customers go over a certain mo...

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Television Fragmentation Continues, Hispanics Are To Blame

Stephanie Da Costa | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: News Corp, Rcn, Telemundo, Comcast, Univision, Comcast NBC Universal, Q'viva, Latino Voices News

If you want proof that the growing Hispanic population and its impact will change the way people experience popular culture in a colossal and immediate way - look no further than the big changes happening at the nation's biggest media players.

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Comcast's Evening News: A Giant Promo Machine

Richard Laermer | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Comcast, E! Entertainment Television, Bad-Business-Practices, Evening News, Brian Williams, Antitrust Issues, Business News

Walter Cronkite brought us the evening news for decades; we watched in awe. Uncle Walter packaged stories of import that made tens of millions stop, s...

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Brent Bozell Tries to Enlist Congress in His Vendetta Against NBC

Terry Krepel | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke, George Zimmerman, Msnbc, Trayvon Martin, Rush Limbaugh, Brent Bozell, Media Research Center, Sandra Fluke, Comcast, Nbc, Nbc George Zimmerman, George Zimmerman 911 Call, Media News

Bozell is playing partisan politics here. He wants his right-wing friends in Congress to help him harass and destroy a business, something he has been spectacularly unsuccessful at doing on his own. He's pursuing a vendetta, not justice.

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Netflix CEO Blasts Comcast Over Net Neutrality

TechCrunch | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Net-Neutrality, Reed Hastings, Netflix, Comcast Xfinity, Comcast, Netflix Reed Hastings, Reed Hastings Netflix, Technology News

In the latest battle in the war for living room domination, Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings took to his public Facebook account and called out Comcast...

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Hey America! We're Ranked #16 in Broadband!

Josh Levy | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Competition, Verizon, Broadband, Cable, Comcast, Timewarner-Cable, Time Warner Cable, Internet Access, Internet, Time Warner, Broadband Internet, Cox, Technology News

Competition in the U.S. broadband market is virtually nonexistent. That means that millions of Americans live without high-speed Internet access, and those who do have it experience slower speeds and higher prices than their European counterparts.

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Woman Denies Buying Hundreds Of Dollars Worth Of Pay-Per-View Porn

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Pornography, Time Warner Cable, Cable Bill, Video, NJ.Com, iPad Apps, Citibank, Sprint, Cell Phone Bill, Comcast, Cable Box, Porn, Ipad, Business News

Porn on the cable bill can be embarrassing enough, but imagine being forced to pay up for lewd movies you didn't even watch. That's exactly what V...

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Verizon Defends $3.6 Billion Deal

Reuters | Posted 05.21.2012

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Verizon Communications and Comcast executives, in testimony on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, defended joint spectrum and marketing...

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Comcast Announces New Service

AP | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Comcast NBC, Comcast Cable, Comcast Cable Provider, Comcast Corp, NBC Universal, Comcast, Nbcu, Ap, Comcast Video Service, Nbc, Media News

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cable TV giant Comcast is launching a new subscription video service that will enable its customers to instantly view movies and...

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Comcast To Start New Minority-Owned Cable Channels

AP | FRAZIER MOORE | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Robert Rodriguez, Video, Sean Combs, Minority Owned Businesses, Cable Channel, Diddy, P. Diddy, Minority Business, El Rey, Hispanics, Comcast, Minority, Latino Prosperity, Minorities, Latino Voices News

NEW YORK — Comcast will launch four minority-owned networks on its cable-TV systems in the next two years, including channels spearheaded by mus...

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Comcast Almost Manages To Stop Decline In Cable Subscriptions

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Cable Television, Cable Tv, Comcast Cable, Comcast, Ap, Comcast Cable Subscriptions, Video, Media News

NEW YORK (AP) — It's become the routine in the cable industry that subscribers stream out the door every quarter, hanging up on cable in favor of se...

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NBC Scraps Incredibly Expensive Plans To Build Studio

AP | Posted 03.06.2012

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UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. (AP) — NBCUniversal and a developer have scrapped plans to build a $750 million office and TV broadcasting center in Southern...

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Verizon's Deal With Big Cable Spells the Demise of the Telecom Act

Joel Kelsey | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Competition, Telecommunications, Technology, 1996 Telecommunications Act, Fcc, Time Warner, Verizon, Doj, Consumers, Comcast, Consumer Protection, Wireless Spectrum, Technology News

We all remember the 1980s and its awesome fashion and music. While some may want to revisit those aspects of the past, I don't think anyone wants to return to the era of the cable and Ma Bell monopolies.

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Disney, Comcast Reach Deal

AP | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Carriage Disputes, Cable, Walt Disney Company, Cable Television, Cable Tv, Disney, Comcast, Carriage Deals, Cable Carriage Deals, Ap, Comcast NBC, Media News

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Walt Disney Co. said Wednesday that it reached a long-term agreement with the nation's largest TV signal provider, Comcast Co...

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Yes, Virginia, Consumers Won a Couple in Washington

Art Brodsky | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: T-Mobile, Tennis Channel, Comcast, Federal Communications Commission, AT&T, Technology News

Treasure this past week in Washington. It's not often -- no, it never happens -- that that consumers get a multitude of good tidings from Washington. Is it too much to hope that this is the start of a trend?

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Justice Department Probes $3.6 Billion Verizon Deal

Reuters | Posted 02.19.2012

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department is probing Verizon Wireless' multi-billion dollar deal to buy wireless airwaves from cable operators and...

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Seacrest In? What Happened to Comcast's Commitment to the News?

Craig Aaron | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: J. Fred Muggs, Chelsea Clinton, Meet the Press, Ryan Seacrest, Paula Abdul, Matt Lauer, Today Show, Comcast, Nbc, Media News

Instead of worrying about the health of our democracy, the new owner of NBC seems determined to take an already shrinking news division and turn it into a reality-TV set.

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Verizon Drops $3.6 Billion On Huge New Partnership

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 02.01.2012

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NEW YORK — Cable companies Comcast Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc. and Bright House Networks are giving up on their dreams of creating their own w...

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Senate Vote Saves Net Neutrality... For Now

Craig Aaron | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Fcc, Comcast, AT&T, Free Press, Net Neutrality, Senate, Verizon, Technology News

Today, at the least, the Senate showed it was willing to stand up to extremists who would rather waste time with partisan measures than make good policy. But the fight for the free and open Internet is far from over.

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Comcast Earnings Up

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Comcast 3Q, Comcast Profit, Comcast, Cable Companies, Comcast Earnings, Media News

NEW YORK — Comcast Corp., the nation's biggest cable television company and Internet service provider, continues to be "The Big Engine That Coul...

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Hacker Admits Interrupting Super Bowl With Porn

AP | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Computer Tampering, Frank Tanori Gonzalez, Hacker Plays Porn During Super Bowl, Tucson Arizona, Porn During Super Bowl, Comcast, Weird Arizona, Porn, Super Bowl, Weird News News

TUCSON, Ariz. -- An Arizona man admitted in court Thursday that he used a computer to interrupt a Tucson-area telecast of the 2009 Super Bowl with a 3...

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Welcome to Your Hungarian Internet

Timothy Karr | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Corruption, Competition, Verizon, Fcc, AT&T, Federal Communications Commission, Internet, Broadband, Comcast, Technology News

While the U.S. has blindly followed a path of broadband industry "deregulation," other nations in Europe and Asia beefed up their pro-competitive policies. The results are evident in our free fall from the top of almost every global measure of Internet services, availability and speed.

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