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| 08.08.2008 |
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Competition
Verizon FiOS TV's urban assault has legs beyond NYC. The telco and DC have inked a video franchise agreement in principle, and the...
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| 08.08.2008 |
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Storage Is King
Developments in licensing, an Appeals Court ruling, the launch of an Internet movie viewing service and new downloading functionalities for movie and gaming consoles point toward a future in which new video storage and retrieval capabilities will determine...
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| 08.06.2008 |
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Competition
Verizon and AT&T mobile TV subs may access this...
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| 08.05.2008 |
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Competition
Verizon and a pair of labor unions covering 65K VZ Telecom employees in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic...
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| 08.04.2008 |
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In the States
A Wilmington, DE, man soliciting for Verizon found too much pleasure in his job this week, leading the telco to suspend door-to-door sales ops in the state. While working for an outsourced marketing firm, the man was caught masturbating while watching a...
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| 07.31.2008 |
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Speed Racer
Although Comcast's 2Q numbers reinforced the notion of a cooling broadband market, they also showed that cable is winning a heated online services battle against the telcos. The MSO's net broadband adds totaled 278K, down 18% YOY but better than many analyst...
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| 07.31.2008 |
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Competition
FiOS TV has added WAPA America to its programming lineup in...
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| 07.29.2008 |
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Tough All Over
Verizon joined AT&T in reporting dismal 2Q broadband numbers, escalating concerns over the US broadband industry's potentially smoking brakes and sending shares of all the major telcos, cable MSOs and DBS ops notably lower amid a widespread Mon selloff...
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| 07.29.2008 |
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AT&T Clearing Deck for DBS Partner Deal
In April, AT&T said it would no longer offer DirecTV in its former BellSouth territory, leaving Dish Network “for the near term” as its sole satellite TV provider across the 22-state AT&T footprint. Then, in June, AT&T notified Dish...
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| 07.29.2008 |
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Deadline Time for Verizon, Unions
Union contracts at Verizon East (former NYNEX and Bell Atlantic) will expire on Aug. 2, and there has been no public indication of progress on key sticking points between Verizon and the CWA and IBEW. Union members have authorized a strike, which could start...
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| 07.28.2008 |
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Competition
AT&T announced plans to make a $400mln...
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| 07.24.2008 |
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Broadband Question: Are AT&T's Dismal Broadband Adds a Bad Omen?
Here's something to keep an eye on as cable starts reporting 2Q results in the coming weeks: What do broadband adds look like? AT&T posted a decline in broadband adds, signing up only 46K net adds during the Q. The number's especially startling when you...
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| 07.24.2008 |
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Competition
Verizon is boosting its FiOS Internet service, announcing new broadband routers that will increase...
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| 07.24.2008 |
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Cuban on HD Fraud, Running NCTA and Gas Prices
CFAX: If you ran NCTA for a day, what would be the first thing you’d urge cable operators to do regarding HD? MARK CUBAN: Besides offer HDNet and HDNet Movies? In a perfect world, I would tell them to promote picture quality as a selling point over...
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| 07.24.2008 |
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The Hottest Operators: 2008 Top Ops Awards
In the past we’ve honored the MSO of the Year and the Independent Operator of the Year, and left it at that. We’re expanding on that tradition for this summertime edition of CableFAX: The Magazine — there is just too much good work being...
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| 07.23.2008 |
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Business/Finance
S&P is maintaining a "buy" on Verizon shares. Ahead of the telco's full 2Q...
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| 07.22.2008 |
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Competition
AT&T is launching its U-Verse TV and Internet services...
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| 07.21.2008 |
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Business/Finance
AT&T kicks off Wed what should be yet another interesting multichannel earnings period while trading near its 52-wk low, a weakness that...
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| 07.21.2008 |
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Competition
DirecTV's blimp will tout something other than the DBS op's content in NYC Mon, when it will fly over Madison Ave to promote the 2nd season of AMC's "Mad Men" (Jul...
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| 07.21.2008 |
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At the Portals
Verizon complained to the FCC Thurs of "the growing practice" of vertically-integrated programmers refusing to sell competitive providers access to HD programming feeds—and accused Cablevision of doing just that with MSG in NYC and Buffalo...
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