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October 2, 2009
Tweet Be Sure to Read Part One: Astroturf Overload — Broadband for America = One Giant Industry Front Group for an important introduction to what this super-sized industry front group is all about. Members of Broadband for America Red: A company or group actively engaging in anti-consumer lobbying, opposes Net Neutrality, supports Internet Overcharging, belongs […]
October 2, 2009
Tweet Astroturf: One of the underhanded tactics increasingly being used by telecom companies is “Astroturf lobbying” – creating front groups that try to mimic true grassroots, but that are all about corporate money, not citizen power. Astroturf lobbying is hardly a new approach. Senator Lloyd Bentsen is credited with coining the term in the 1980s […]
September 27, 2009
Tweet Hong Kong remains bullish on broadband. Despite the economic downturn, City Telecom continues to invest millions in constructing one of Hong Kong’s largest fiber optic broadband networks, providing fiber to the home connections to residents. City Telecom’s HK Broadband service relies on an all-fiber optic network, and has been dubbed “the Verizon FiOS of […]
September 23, 2009
Tweet BendBroadband, a small provider serving central Oregon, breathlessly announced the imminent launch of new higher speed broadband service for its customers after completing an upgrade to DOCSIS 3. Along with the launch announcement came a new logo of a sprinting dog the company attaches its new tagline to: “We’re the local dog. We better […]
September 23, 2009
Tweet Stop the Cap! reader Rick has been educating me about some of the new-found aggression by Shaw Communications, one of western Canada’s largest telecommunications companies, in expanding its business reach across Canada. Woe to those who get in the way. Novus Entertainment is already familiar with this story. As Stop the Cap! reported previously, […]
September 22, 2009
Tweet The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission, the Canadian equivalent of the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, may be forced to consider American broadband policy before defining Net Neutrality and its role in Canadian broadband, according to an article published today in The Globe & Mail. [FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's] proposal – to codify and enforce […]
September 21, 2009
Tweet In March 2000, two cable magnates sat down for the cable industry equivalent of My Dinner With Andre. Fine wine, beautiful table linens, an exquisite meal, and a Monopoly board with pieces swapped back and forth representing hundreds of thousands of Canadian consumers. Ted Rogers and Jim Shaw drew a line on the western […]
September 11, 2009
Tweet Just like FairPoint Communications, the Towering Inferno of phone companies haunting New England, Frontier Communications is making a whole lot of promises to state regulators and consumers, if they’ll only support the deal to transfer ownership of phone service from Verizon to them. This time, Frontier is issuing a self-serving press release touting their […]
September 7, 2009
Tweet I see it took all of five minutes for George Ou and his friends at Digital Society to be swayed by the tunnel vision myopia of last week’s latest effort to justify Internet Overcharging schemes. Until recently, I’ve always rationalized my distain for smaller usage caps by ignoring the fact that I’m being subsidized […]
September 1, 2009
Tweet In 2007, we took our first major trip away from western New York in 20 years and spent two weeks an hour away from Calgary, Alberta. After two weeks in Kananaskis Country, Banff, Calgary, and other spots all over southern Alberta, we came away with the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Good […]
August 31, 2009
Tweet A federal appeals court in Washington has struck down, for a second time, a rulemaking by the Federal Communications Commission to limit the size of the nation’s largest cable operators to 30% of the nation’s pay television marketplace, calling the rule “arbitrary and capricious.” The 30% rule, designed to keep no single company from […]
August 27, 2009
Tweet Less than half of Americans surveyed by PC Magazine report they are very satisfied with the broadband speed delivered by their Internet service provider. PC Magazine released a comprehensive study this month on speed, provider satisfaction, and consumer opinions about the state of broadband in their community. The publisher sampled more than 17,000 participants, […]
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I am curious to see if this becomes mandatory pricing as soon as the polls close on 11/6. What I do know is, as much as I hate to admit it, but Schumer may join the fight again this time.
Looks like TWC will be helping to boost Clearwire, at least in the Rochester area anyway.
I’m not even a TWC customer or in the Austin area, but I submitted my two cents about it. I also havent heard a thing. I put my real name and email address, but it would not let me comment without also entering a zip code. Fearing they would delete or ignore my message if I had a zip code in a different state (not even serviced by TWC) that this would affect, I used Google and made an entry for a Austin, TX zip code.
I basically told them if usage meter billing is inevitable, then give us no less than 300 GB a month, at a rate of $40 a month. Seeing how 1 GB of bandwidth and data costs you less than $1 to generate to me, this is more than fair. Doubt they will even read it since it isnt a “wow this is awesome, OMG i luv you so much for this new plan TWC” message
I am so tired of booting almost every day to get rid of the stalling, trying to ff commercials only to zoom way past where I want to stop, stopping before the end of the show, recording what I don’t want, going to my guide and then pic a show only to have a black box on the upper R corner that won’t go away without booting then loosing the show. Pixeling and freezing is another problem, I have had maybe 120 times TW at my house, everything under the sun has been done.
Prices are going up so much I’m not sure how long I can keep paying for such an extravagant household item.
Why take the phone call list off when you choose phone calls, it now has 2 extra steps.
Bring back Blues Clues on the kids channel please, my Grandkids are heartbroken.
Could you have a OD channel for oldies like Gilligan’s Island, Petticoat Junction, Betwitched, Jeannie, Hillbillies, Hogan’s Hero’s, Alf, Third Rock From the Sun, Laverne & Shirley, Happy Days, Green Acres, Dobbie Gillis, Jetson’s, Lost in Space, Three Stooges, McHales Navy (not sure how to spell it), Loveboat.
There is a setting under the cable box menu that lets you change how the fast forward function works. It drove me crazy when you fast forward and know to stop at the end of commercials only to have the box automatically rewind 10-15 seconds back, leaving me stuck watching Wilfred Brimley hawking diabetic supplies. Then I found in the setup menu an option to change the behavior of fast forward and reverse to either stay dead on or reverse several seconds after you stop the fast forward function.
As for classic television, check your lineup to see if you have a local affiliate of Memorable Entertainment Television (Me-TV). One of the local stations would carry it as a “digital subchannel,” but Time Warner here in western New York carries it as its own channel on our lineup.
Me-TV has a lot of what you are looking for: Perry Mason, Cannon, Rockford Files, Star Trek, tons of old westerns and shows from the 60s-80s.
More info here: http://metvnetwork.com/
Another One: Retro TV — http://www.myretrotv.com
Actually DVR Compensation is one of the most welcomed received features for those without Ninja fingers.