- Internet Service Providers Draw On Broad Array Of Data, Share It In Surprising Ways, FTC Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 21, 2021
Consumers "would likely be surprised at the extent of data that is collected and combined for purposes unrelated to providing the service they request -- in particular, browsing data, televisi ...
- FCC Urged To Restrict Deals Between Landlords And Broadband Providers
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 20, 2021
"Property owners are often unwilling to allow competitive broadband services in premises where they already have exclusive arrangements and revenue sharing agreements with incumbent providers,"
Incompas tells the FCC. ...
- Super Smart TVs Offer More, Redefine What Connected TV Can Do
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 11, 2021
Sky Glass looks to replace satellite-delivered TV programming and revamp playlists. ...
- AT&T's Stankey Plans Brand Refresh, Promises 'Less Uncertainty' In 2022
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, September 22, 2021
The CEO sought to assure investors that the company's refocus on wireless and broadband will pay off after AT&T completes its WarnerMedia spinoff, during a Goldman Sachs event. ...
- Nielsen To Start Local TV Impressions Metric Measure In January 2022
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Nielsen will transition to impressions-based reporting for local U.S. TV station ad buying and selling at the same time as the integration of broadband-only homes into Nielsen local TV measurem ...
- Appeals Court Weighs California Net Neutrality Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 14, 2021
"The question before this court is whether interstate broadband service will continue to be governed by a single, national set of rules, or instead will for the first time fa ...
- FCC Revisists Broadband Competition In Apartment Buildings
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 7, 2021
"With more than one-third of the U.S. population living in condos and apartment buildings, it's time to take a fresh look at how exclusive agreements between carriers and building owne ...
- Telecom Boosts Email Results With New Capabilities
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, September 2, 2021
CityWest achieves higher-than-average open rates while targeting segments based on behavioral data. ...
- Pay-TV Cord-Cutting Slows - Along With Broadband Growth
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, August 20, 2021
On the pay-TV front, an actual gain for internet-delivered vMVPDs and lower losses for satellite and telco services helped offset higher losses in the cable sector. Broadband's robust growth slow ...
- Video-Gaming Cloud Services To Rise To $3.6B In 2024
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 18, 2021
The business continues to climb, partly due to potential reach. Nearly 70% of U.S. homes are not regularly playing video games. ...
- Tiered Streaming Options' Strong Appeal; Prime Video's Powerful Membership Draw
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, July 30, 2021
"Tiered plans give viewers control of their experience," sums up the author of a new study on monetizing video. ...
- NBCU Posts 33% Higher Q2 Ad Revenues, Olympics Still On Profitable Track
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 29, 2021
The games are estimated to have pulled at least $1.3 billion in ad revenue -- a record. ...
- Biden Urges FCC To Restore Net Neutrality, FTC To Regulate 'Surveillance Practices'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 9, 2021
President Joe Biden on Friday signed a broad executive order that includes provisions encouraging the FCC to restore the former net neutrality rules, and the FTC to issue new regulatio ...
- vMVPDs Reached 16% Of U.S. Pay-TV Subs In 2020, As Traditional Pay-TV Subs Continued To Plummet
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, July 9, 2021
vMVPDs were the only pay-TV segment to see growth during the pandemic, spurred by households' adoption of standalone broadband services. ...
- FCC's Broadband Defiinition Too Slow, Government Report Suggests
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 8, 2021
"FCC's minimum speed benchmark of 25/3 Mbps is likely not fast enough to meet the needs of many small businesses, particularly with regard to upload speeds." the U.S. Government Accountabili ...
- New York Wants Appellate Court To Reinstate Mandatory $15 Monthly Broadband Service
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 6, 2021
New York State Attorney General Letitia James will ask a federal appellate court to allow the state to enforce a new law requiring broadband providers to offer $15-a-month service ...
- Broadband Providers Battling Net Neutrality Point To Victory In New York
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 21, 2021
A judge's injunction blocking New York's mandate for $15-a-month broadband supports the case against California's net neutrality law, broadband providers argue. ...
- Boost Mobile Should Stop Boasting Of 'Unlimited' Data, Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 18, 2021
"Boost Mobile has failed to provide proper support for the use of the 'unlimited data' claim as reasonable consumers understand that term," the BBB National Programs' National Advertising Review Boa ...
- Charter Should Revise Ads Attacking AT&T, Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Charter should revise ads boasting that its internet service offers the fastest downloads and ads implying that AT&T doesn't have speeds fast enough to stream online exercise classes, a self-regulato ...
- Biden Urged To Nominate Tie-Breaking Democrat To FCC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 14, 2021
The ACLU, Mozilla and other groups say the FCC "remains below full capacity, which is incompatible with the goal of delivering open, affordable and reliable high-speed broadband to every home ...
- Madison Avenue's New Impressionistic Movement
RTBlog, Joe Mandese - Monday, June 7, 2021
After a brief flirtation with higher-order metrics, some major media are pushing to revert their advertising currencies to impressions-based measurement, albeit for different reasons. ...
- American Household Data Usage Begins To Normalize, Expands At Historic Rates
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, June 1, 2021
In another sign that American media consumption is returning to more normalized patterns, the rate of broadband data consumption for the average American household appears to have returned to i ...
- FTC And States Sue Frontier Over Internet Speed Claims
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Frontier Communications duped subscribers by delivering internet service at lower-than-advertised speeds, the FTC and six states alleged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday. ...
- Verizon Offers Sling TV Deal To Broadband, Wireless Customers
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, May 20, 2021
The deal is the latest in a series of partnerships intended to help bolster Fios TV, which lost 82,000 subscribers in this year's first quarter alone, reducing its total ...
- Washington Lifts Curbs On City-Owned Broadband Networks
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, May 14, 2021
"We have ended all restrictions on public broadband in Washington state," Rep. Drew Hansen, sponsor of the bill, tweeted. ...
- Mozilla, Advocates, And Attorneys General Defend California's Net Neutrality Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 12, 2021
"Absent effective neutrality rules, ISPs can -- and do -- act as self-interested gatekeepers," digital rights organizations tell a federal appellate court. ...
- Broadband Industry Financed Phony Comments Against Net Neutrality
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 6, 2021
"In April 2017, the country's largest broadband companies banded together to fund a campaign to generate millions of comments for the FCC's 2017 net neutrality rulemaking proceeding," a new repo ...
- Net Neutrality 'Vital' To Protect The Public, California Tells Appeals Court
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 5, 2021
California is urging a federal appeals court to leave in place a state net neutrality law that broadly prohibits broadband carriers from blocking or throttling traffic and from charging high ...
- Broadband Industry Challenges NY Law Requiring $15 Monthly Service
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 4, 2021
"In short, New York has overstepped its regulatory authority," broadband organizations allege in a lawsuit seeking to invalidate a state law requiring $15 monthly service for some low-income
residents. ...
- Spectrum Mobile Should Stop Boasting Of 'Fastest Overall Speed,' Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Conclusion: Speed advantage comes "only when the consumer is located in certain markets or connected to Spectrum WiFi." ...
