- Unbundled, Stand-Alone Broadband Service Continues To Rise With U.S. Consumers
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, June 26, 2020
Unbundled, stand-alone broadband service -- not packaged with mobile, and/or pay TV -- continues to rise with U.S consumers. ...
- Correction: Unbundled, Stand-Alone Broadband Service Continues To Rise With U.S. Consumers
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, June 26, 2020
In a story
(“Unbundled, Stand-Alone Broadband Service Continues To Rise With U.S. Consumers”) in the June 26 edition of
Television News Daily, broadband-related research should have been described as unbundled, stand-alone broadband ...
- Charter Wants FCC To Allow Data Caps, Interconnection Fees
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 22, 2020
When the FCC approved Charter's merger with Time Warner and Bright House Networks, the agency required the company to refrain from imposing usage-based billing or interconnection fees until 2023. ...
- Broadband Industry Fights To Block 'Outlier' Privacy Law
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 11, 2020
Maine's new broadband privacy law is "an extreme outlier," industry lobbying groups are telling a federal judge. ...
- Maine Broadband Privacy Law Doesn't Violate First Amendment, Free Speech Advocates Say
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 4, 2020
"The protection of privacy is often crucial to free speech," the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University writes in a friend-of-the-court brief filed this week with U.S. District Court ...
- Maine Defends Broadband Privacy Law Against First Amendment Challenge
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, May 29, 2020
"Maine's Law is guided by the urgent need to safeguard the privacy of Internet consumers," Attorney General Aaron Frey tells a federal judge. ...
- AT&T's 5G Evolution Ads Misleading, Self-Regulatory Group Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 20, 2020
AT&T ads boasting about the company's "5G Evolution" service mislead consumers and should be discontinued, an appeals panel of the ad industry's self-regulatory program confirmed. ...
- Bill Would Prohibit Internet Disconnections During COVID-19 Pandemic
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Internet and phone providers would be prohibited from terminating service to consumers until at least 6 months after the end of the pandemic, under legislation proposed by Sens. Jeff Merkley, ...
- OTT Penetration Tops Three-Quarters Of U.S. Homes
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Monday, May 11, 2020
As of Q1 2020, more than three-quarters of U.S. broadband households were estimated to be subscribing to at least one over-the-top subscription video-on-demand service, according to an analysis of Parks ...
- Virgin Media And O2 Merge
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, May 7, 2020
Virgin Media and O2 are merging to form a GBP31bn giant that will have the fixed and mobile muscle to be a true rival to BT, "Sky News" is report ...
- FCC Ordered To Disclose Data About Net Neutrality Commenters
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, May 1, 2020
Siding with The New York Times, a federal judge has ordered that the FCC must disclose information about users who submitted comments during the 2017 net neutrality proceeding, despite the ...
- Charter Sees Rising Q1 Broadband Revenue, Gains From Political Advertising
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, May 1, 2020
As Charter narrowed its video subscriber losses by half in Q1 2020 vs. a year ago, its overall broadband business continued to climb in subscribers and revenue. Analysts say the ...
- Comcast, Altice Video Subscriber Losses Accelerate In Q1, Offset By Broadband Growth
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, May 1, 2020
Comcast had its best broadband quarter in 12 years, and Altice set a broadband add record. But Comcast lost 388,000 residential cable customers--up from 107,000 in the year-ago quarter, while ...
- Comcast Q1 Sees Stable Broadband, Cable Revenues, Sinking Biz For NBCU, Sky
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, April 30, 2020
Although Comcast maintained revenue growth for its main broadband/cable businesses, NBCU revenue sank 7% to $7.73 billion. Broadcast revenue from networks and TV stations was up 9% to $2.7 billion ...
- Virgin Media Says It Resolved UK Broadband Issues
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Virgin Media claims to have resolved issues that led to a broadband outage in the UK. But hundreds of users said they were still able to get online. ...
- Lawmakers Urge FCC To Inform Newly Jobless About Broadband Subsidies
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, April 28, 2020
"The FCC's Lifeline program can help struggling families afford basic internet and telephone connectivity at a time when they need it most -- but only if they know about it," ...
- Divided FCC Issues Upbeat Report On Broadband
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 27, 2020
Broadband is being deployed on a "reasonable and timely basis," even though 18 million Americans lack access to wireline service, a divided FCC says. ...
- FCC Makes More Spectrum Available For WiFi
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 23, 2020
The FCC says its move will boost WiFi, but the National Association of Broadcasters warns that unlicensed spectrum use could interfere with local radio and TV broadcasters. ...
- FCC Refuses Cities' Request For Time To Weigh In On Net Neutrality Repeal
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 23, 2020
"We remain in the thick of responding to the current public health emergency," officials from New York, Los Angeles and Santa Clara wrote to the FCC in an unsuccessful request ...
- COVID-19 Crisis Shows Need For Net Neutrality Rules, Advocates Say
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 20, 2020
"Even if not traditionally thought of as a matter of public safety, one of the best things the FCC can do in regard to public safety right now is help ...
- Local Broadband System Launched In Colorado
Around the Net In Digital, Ray Schultz - Sunday, April 19, 2020
Communities in Western Colorado have build a new broadband system, having decided they couldn’t wait for telecoms to do it for them. The area has suffered from persistent outages that ...
- Charter To Distribute WarnerMedia's HBO Max
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Charter's existing HBO subscribers will get the SVOD at no extra charge when it launches next month. Other video, broadband and mobile Charter customers will be able to buy HBO ...
- Broadband Industry Presses Judge To Scrap Maine Privacy Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 13, 2020
"The statute violates the First Amendment," four lobbying groups tell a federal judge in Maine. "It excessively burdens ISPs' beneficial, pro-consumer speech about a wide variety of subjects." ...
- Global Video Downloads Increase, Due To Broadband Slowdowns
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Last month, there was a massive 380% rise in videos downloaded to 4.7 million versus March 2019. ...
- Charter To Up Minimum Wage To $20 Over Two Years, Starting With 'Frontline' Workers
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, April 7, 2020
The cable operator says the pandemic accelerated implementation of a wage hike already under discussion. ...
- Internet Speeds Lag Just When Time Becomes Of The Essence
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Households that use multiple devices at the same time are more likely to report slower connection speeds -- likely the effect of several people working from home, attending online classes ...
- Cable, Broadband Companies To See 'Relatively Stable' Business Through COVID-19 Crisis: Moody's
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Compared to the U.S. economy as a whole, cable TV operator/broadband companies will "remain relatively stable" through the COVID-19 crisis, says Moody's Investors Service -- with a slight 2% revenue ...
- Internet Showing Strain, Despite Streamers' Bit-Throttling Moves
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, March 27, 2020
Download speeds rose as broadband speeds declined last week in some parts of the U.S. and Europe, reported "The New York Times." And while Netflix didn't explain the cause, some ...
- Study: U.S. Households Value Broadband Service Over Pay TV
Television News Daily, Fern Siegel - Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Some 60% of households say they would cancel pay-TV subscriptions before losing broadband, per a new report. ...
- FCC Extends Deadline For Net Neutrality Comments
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Faced with the current COVID-19 outbreak, the FCC has agreed to extend the deadline for the public to weigh in on how the repeal of the Obama-era rules affects public ...
