- Comcast Shouldn't Boast Of Best WiFi Experience, Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Comcast shouldn't advertise its service as the "best in-home WiFi experience," the National Advertising Review Board said, upholding a decision issued last year. ...
- Rosenworcel Tapped For Acting FCC Chief
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 21, 2021
FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, one of the agency's leading proponents of net neutrality regulations, has been tapped by President Joe Biden to serve as acting chair of the agency. ...
- Trump-Era FCC Issues Cheery Broadband Report
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 20, 2021
A divided FCC said for the third straight year that broadband is being deployed in a "reasonable and timely" fashion, even though more than 14 million Americans lacked access ...
- Charter Withdraws Request For Permission To Impose Data Caps
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Charter has dropped its request to the FCC for permission to impose broadband data caps or shift to usage-based billing. ...
- House Democrats Question Broadband Carriers About Pricing, Data Caps
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 12, 2021
"As our nation continues to confront both a public health and economic crisis, it is critical that Americans have access to reliable and affordable internet service," Reps. Frank Pallone, J ...
- Comscore Recapitalizes: Removes All Debt, Secures Extended Data Rights From Key Suppliers
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Thursday, January 7, 2021
Financially beleaguered media researcher Comscore this evening announced it has finalized a deal to recapitalize the company, and also secured "extended data rights" from at least one of its n ...
- Cable One's Sparklight Launching IPTV App To Run On Streaming Services
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, January 7, 2021
Sparklight TV, which will run on Mobi TV's Connect platform, will offer advanced cable TV features including video on demand, DVR and program restart capabilities in an app designed ...
- Comcast Urged To Abandon 'Inconceivable' Plan To Impose Data Caps During Pandemic
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Comcast should reverse the decision to impose data caps, and reconsider "any perversion of the principles of net neutrality in Massachusetts," state lawmakers say. ...
- 40% of Broadband Households Have Trialed OTT During COVID, Most Have Subscribed
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, December 29, 2020
The overall OTT churn rate has declined a bit, but hovers at about 40%. ...
- Rural Broadband Carriers Urge FCC To Define Broadband As 100 Mbps
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 21, 2020
The current standard of 25 Mbps downstream "does not reflect what American consumers need today, let alone tomorrow," NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association and the Fiber Broadband Association tell the ...
- Seattle Adopts NextGen TV -- Biggest Market To Date
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
BitPath -- which plans to launch the nation's first dedicated broadcast data network starting next year -- coordinated the efforts across the Seattle stations. ...
- Senate Confirms FCC Nominee Who Pushed To Regulate Social Media
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 8, 2020
The Senate Tuesday voted 49-46 along party lines to confirm controversial telecom lawyer Nathan Simington to the Federal Communications Commission. ...
- FCC Chairman Pai To Exit In January
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 30, 2020
Ajit Pai, who shepherded the FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules, said he will step down Jan. 20, when President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in. ...
- Talking Turkey, Streaming It Too: U.S. Broadband Usage Spikes Thanksgiving Day
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Monday, November 30, 2020
Spurred by Zoom's removal of data limits across its platform on Thanksgiving Day, U.S. broadband usage surged vs. Thanksgiving 2019, according to estimates released today by OpenVault. ...
- Comcast Extends Data Caps Throughout Country
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 23, 2020
Starting next year, Comcast subscribers in 14 additional states and the District of Columbia who consume more than 1.2 TB of data per month will see higher bills. ...
- 31% Of U.S. Broadband Homes Own 4 Or More OTT Services, Double A Year Ago
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 23, 2020
A recent survey found 31% of respondents said they subscribed to the top three OTT services -- Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Hulu, as well as least one other O ...
- Broadband Providers Add 1.5M Subs In Q3, Most In 11 Years
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, November 23, 2020
Thanks to the streaming boom, Comcast logged 633K net quarterly broadband adds -- its most in 15 years -- and Charter gained 537K. On the telco side, AT&T added 1 ...
- T-Mobile Should Revise 5G Boasts, Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, November 6, 2020
T-Mobile ads touting the benefits of its upcoming 5G network could mislead people to think the network will be available in the near future, the National Advertising Division says. ...
- Biden Victory Breathes New Life Into Battle To Restore Net Neutrality
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Sunday, November 8, 2020
Net neutrality proponents are gearing up to press the Biden administration to restore a set of broadband regulations that were passed in 2015, but repealed by the current Federal Communicatio ...
- Congress Urged To Prevent Broadband Providers From Abandoning DSL Subscribers
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 30, 2020
Congress should prevent telecoms from discontinuing older internet access technology without also offering a replacement, a coalition of advocacy groups urged Friday. ...
- Charter Sees Another Rare Video Subscriber Increase In Q3, Video Revenue Down
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 30, 2020
Charter had more business from lower-priced video packages and lower pay-per-view and video-on-demand revenue. The company saw a net gain of 67,000 subscribers vs. an increase of 94,000 in ...
- FCC Affirms Decision To Scrap Obama-Era Net Neutrality Rules
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 27, 2020
The FCC voted 3-2 Tuesday to affirm its 2017 repeal of regulations that prohibited internet service providers from blocking or throttling traffic. ...
- FCC's Starks Warns Against Misuse Of 'Deeply Personal' Location Data
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 26, 2020
"It's no wonder we're seeing wariness about adopting potentially useful things like contact tracing applications," FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks said Monday. ...
- California's Zero-Rating Restrictions 'Irreparably Harm' ISPs, Groups Argue
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 16, 2020
Broadband carriers "are faced with precisely the sort of dilemma that courts regularly find constitutes immediate and irreparable harm," trade groups say. ...
- FCC Preps Order Affirming Net Neutrality Repeal
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 5, 2020
In a move blasted by open internet advocates, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has circulated an order affirming the agency's 2017 decision to revoke the Obama-era net neutrality rules. ...
- Following AMC Networks' All-Inclusive AMC+ Streaming App, More Deals To Come: Analyst
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 2, 2020
The "significant move, unthinkable a few years ago but seemingly inevitable now," comes as AMC completed major carriage deals for linear pay TV with Charter and Dish Network, and possib ...
- FCC Drops Appeal, Will Provide Data About Net Neutrality Commenters To New York Times
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 29, 2020
The FCC has withdrawn its appeal of an order requiring it to provide The New York Times with metadata about web users who commented to the agency during its 20 ...
- Tech Lobbying Group Urges FCC To Define Broadband As Gigabit Service
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 21, 2020
"Markets with gigabit connectivity not only have faster speeds, but also more affordable prices," Incompas writes in a new FCC filing. ...
- California Urges Judge To Leave Net Neutrality Law In Place
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 18, 2020
"The central importance of free and open Internet access to modern life has never been more apparent than during the current COVID-19 public health crisis," California Attorney General Xavier Becer ...
- AT&T To Settle Class Action Over Throttling
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 17, 2020
AT&T has reached an "agreement in principle" to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit over allegations that it slowed the broadband connections of subscribers who purchased unlimited data. ...
