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Spelling the death knell for the deal, CNBC’s David Faber reports what will happen if the deal falls through. (3:38)
Time Warner Cable wants you to pay $3.95 a month for their cable modem. Find out how to avoid this fee and learn more about why they are charging it.
On Nov. 7, AT&T announced a plan that seeks to scrap rural American landlines, compelling customers to sign up for AT&T Wireless to continue home phone and broadband service. Abandoning the reliable rural landline has serious consequences for customers that will be indefinitely stuck with usage capped, expensive Internet access and potentially unreliable cell phone service.
Why live with the poor choices and high prices offered by the local cable and phone company? You don't have to sit back and take what they give you anymore. An increasing number of communities are building their own fiber-to-the-home networks, delivering 21st century broadband service to local residents and businesses. Keep the economic benefits working right at home!
You can take action right now to protect your broadband account from Internet Overcharging practices. Click the title "Fight Back" and learn how you can help get legislation passed to prohibit unjustified rate hikes.
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Phillip Dampier
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Spelling the death knell for the deal, CNBC’s David Faber reports what will happen if the deal falls through. (3:38)
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Comcast earned the opposition of the Federal Communications Commission, along with the Department of Justice, as it seeks to complete a $45.2 billion acquisition of Time-Warner Cable. Bloomberg’s Alex Sherman Reports on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” (2:17)
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BTIG Media and Tech Analyst Rich Greenfield discusses the fight against a Time Warner Cable and Comcast merger deal. Bloomberg Intelligence’s Paul Sweeney also speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” (5:10)
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Comcast and Time Warner Cable met with the U.S. Department of Justice this week to discuss Comcast’s $45.2 billion bid to buy its smaller peer. Comcast could ultimately walk away from the deal if the concessions needed to win approval are too strict. Bloomberg’s David Gura explains everything you need to know about the merger proposal. (1:44)
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Bloomberg News reports Comcast’s broadband market share (with or without Time Warner Cable) is probably too large to allow it any more mergers or acquisitions in the broadband market. Chris Marangi, portfolio manager at Gabelli Funds, discusses the fight in Washington over Comcast’s proposed merger with Time Warner Cable, what may happen next in the cable industry if the deal is killed and also looks at the business of Facebook. He speaks on “Market Makers.” Marangi’s firm owns shares of Comcast and Time Warner Cable. (8:29)
October 2, 2009
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 to […]
October 2, 2009
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 to […]
September 27, 2009
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 Hong […]
September 23, 2009
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 be […]
September 23, 2009
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, Shaw […]
September 22, 2009
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 some […]
September 21, 2009
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 Ontario […]
September 11, 2009
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 investment […]
September 7, 2009
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 by […]
September 1, 2009
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 Alberta […]
August 31, 2009
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 controlling […]
August 27, 2009
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, checking […]
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