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| 12.07.2011 |
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Cablevision Sues Verizon Over High-Speed Internet Ads
Cablevision Systems has filed a lawsuit in Federal Court seeking an end to a Verizon
advertising campaign, which it claims makes intentionally false and misleading statements
related to Cablevision's high-speed Internet service. Cablevision issued the...
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| 11.08.2011 |
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Frontier Offers an Online Video Site
Frontier Communications has launched an online video site dubbed TumTiki, available to anyone with Internet access. Partnering with online video services such as Hulu, TumTiki streams free TV episodes from major networks, including ABC, NBC, Fox, Food...
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| 10.18.2011 |
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Getting Up to Speed on WOW
After spending the better part of 2011 transitioning from analog to digital video in all of its markets in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, Denver-based WideOpenWest (WOW), which provides high-speed Internet, cable TV and voice, finally has completed...
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| 10.10.2011 |
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Netflix Does 180-Degree Turn
Netflix today said it will not rename its DVD-by-mail service and that its U.S. members will continue to go to the Netflix Website for both unlimited streaming and unlimited DVDs. Netflix said in a...
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| 09.27.2011 |
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Using VDSL2 Vectoring To Shut Out The Noise
While operators with cable and fiber plant may disparage telcos regarding their older copper infrastructure, the fact remains that DSL is the dominant access technology worldwide. According to The Broadband and IPTV Growth Report presented at the Broadband...
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| 09.23.2011 |
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FCC Sides With Verizon in MSG Programming Spat
The Federal Communications Commission yesterday ruled that the Madison Square Garden Company must make its MSG and MSG...
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| 09.23.2011 |
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DISH Adds Subscription Streaming Option in Pay-TV Bundle
DISH Network and Blockbuster today unveiled Blockbuster Movie Pass. Beginning Oct. 1, Blockbuster Movie Pass is available for DISH customers, starting at $10 per month, and featuring a streaming movie service. Blockbuster Movie Pass includes: More than...
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| 09.06.2011 |
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Sprint Files Suit to Block AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
Even though the Justice Department has moved to block the proposed acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T, Sprint is covering all its bases. Today, Sprint Nextel brought suit against AT&T, AT&T Mobility, Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile seeking to block the...
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| 08.22.2011 |
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ACA To FCC: Let Cablecos, CLECs Merge If They Want To
In its prolific efforts to assist small cable operators, the American Cable Association (ACA) has identified a way for providers to join forces with competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) to compete against incumbent telephone companies and to gain more...
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| 08.15.2011 |
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ActiveVideo Files For Injunction Against Verizon
ActiveVideo Networks, creators of the CloudTV platform, has filed for an injunction against Verizon Communications to prevent the continued unauthorized use of its intellectual property in Verizon’s FiOS TV service.
The requested injunction...
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| 08.11.2011 |
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Towerstream Capitalizes on Verizon Strike
Towerstream Corporation, a 4G wireless service provider, is targeting Verizon customers affected by the union workers' strike. Towerstream will waive its Rapid
Install fee for any Verizon customers in a Towerstream market that are being affected by the...
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| 08.09.2011 |
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Saboteurs Attack Verizon
Verizon is dealing with a strike by 45,000 of the company's wireline employees represented by the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Verizon says it has repaired at least 12 acts of sabotage to its...
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| 07.21.2011 |
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OTT Continues to Chip Away at Pay-TV Subscriptions
Whether watching video or engaging in other online activities, Americans are spending more time on the Internet. 2010 marked the first year consumers spent as much time online as they did watching TV, according to Forrester Research. And it appears others are...
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| 05.27.2011 |
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CenturyLink Rolls IPTV To Southwest Florida
CenturyLink has launched Prism TV in Southwest Florida, as an alternative TV service to cable and satellite.
Prism TV is a 100 percent digital TV service offering local, premium and high-definition...
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| 05.16.2011 |
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New Comcast Sales Team Targets Mid-Size Business Customers With Metro E
Today, Comcast signaled its intention to compete for mid-size business customers. Until now, the MSO has focused on providing business solutions to small companies of less than 20 employees, crossing the $1 billion mark for business services revenue in 2010...
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| 05.12.2011 |
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Google Demos Karaoke App At Its I/O Conference
Stingray Digital, a Montreal-based media and technology company, says its new The Karaoke Channel TV App, an app that turns TV sets into high-definition karaoke machines, is being demoed at the Google I/O Conference on Google TV. The app is designed and...
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| 05.05.2011 |
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EchoStar Chooses SRS Labs To Deal with Loud Commercials
EchoStar has renewed its multi-year contract with SRS Labs to license SRS TruVolume volume-leveling technology within multiple set-top-box models. TruVolume allows users to enjoy TV content, free of the annoying volume fluctuations that are...
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| 05.02.2011 |
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TiVo, EchoStar Settle for Half-Billion Dollars
TiVo, Dish Network and EchoStar Corporation have settled all of their ongoing patent litigation. Under the terms of the settlement, Dish Network and EchoStar agree to pay TiVo $500 million, including an initial payment of $300 million with the remaining $200...
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| 03.31.2011 |
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Google Picks KCK for Initial Fiber Build
Almost a year ago, Google boasted it was going to pick one lucky city in which to build a fiber-optic network that would show traditional cable and telco operators how networks should be done. After garnering big headlines and having municipal leaders from...
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| 02.14.2011 |
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Breaking News: EchoStar Buys Hughes For $2B
In a Valentine to its shareholders, EchoStar Corporation just announced it will acquire all of the outstanding equity of Hughes Communications and its subsidiaries, including its main operating subsidiary Hughes Network Systems, in a deal worth approximately...
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