- 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 possibly ...
- 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The FCC has withdrawn its appeal of an order requiring it to provide The New York Times with metadata about web users who commented to the agency during its 2017 ...
- 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 Becerra ...
- 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. ...
- Senate Democrats Urge Broadband Providers To Suspend Data Caps, Expand Coverage
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 11, 2020
Sen. Mark Warner and 10 others said Friday in a letter that "remote education is only as effective as available internet service," with "unprecedented numbers of students" relying on remote ...
- EarthLink Sues Charter Over Alleged 'Stealing' Of Subscribers
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, September 10, 2020
EarthLink has filed a lawsuit against Charter Communications, alleging Charter duped EarthLink subscribers by telling them their broadband provider was out of business, among other things. The case, on file ...
- Cord-Cutting Advances: 37% Of Wireline Broadband Homes Don't Have Traditional Pay TV
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, September 10, 2020
In addition, nearly 30% of all occupied U.S. homes did not subscribe to a multichannel video programming distributor service as of Q2, reports Kagan. ...
- Nielsen 'Universe' Expands Just 0.3%
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Monday, August 31, 2020
The Nielsen universe continues to expand, albeit modestly, with U.S. TV households rising 0.3% to 121.0 million, according to Nielsen's official 2020-21 TV season estimates. The number of persons represented ...
- Chamber Of Commerce Backs Bid To Block California Net Neutrality Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 21, 2020
"California's new regulatory regime raises more questions than it answers," the Chamber of Commerce says in a friend-of-the-court brief filed this week with a federal judge in Sacramento. ...
- Court Vacates FCC Order Banning Charter From Charging Interconnecton Fees
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 14, 2020
In a move that took industry watchers by surprise, a divded federal appeals panel Friday vacated a Federal Communications Commission decision to prohibit Charter from charging online video providers fees ...
- Ban On Data Caps Is 'Outdated,' Charter Tells FCC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Charter says the conditions of its 2016 merger with Time Warner Cable, including a ban on data caps, place the company "at a competitive disadvantage." ...
- Roku Asks FCC To Reject Charter's Request For Permission To Impose Data Caps
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 7, 2020
"Data caps prevent consumers from working remotely, learning at a distance, and engaging with friends, family, and online media," Roku says in a new FCC filing. ...
- The 'Real Money' Behind Pirate IPTV Services: $1 Billion+
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Friday, August 7, 2020
According to a study released Thursday by the Digital Citizens Alliance and technology firm NAGRA, about 9 million fixed U.S. broadband subscribers currently subscribe to at least one of 3,500 ...
- Charter's Spectrum Networks Launches Local News App
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, August 3, 2020
The mobile-first news app is a value-add intended to help continue Spectrum's broadband growth, which in turn helps support video subscriber trends. ...
- Charter Sees 3% Q2 Revenue Growth With Broadband, Mobile Higher, Local Ad Sales Sink 37%
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 31, 2020
Charter Communications reversed its declining video subscriber loss with a net 102,000 increase in subscribers during the Q2 period. ...
- NBCUniversal Revenue Sinks 25% In Q2, With Big Ad Declines For Cable, Broadcast
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 30, 2020
Broadcast revenue declined 1.6% to $2.4 billion, with ad revenue down 28%. Cable network revenue overall was down 15%. ...
- Virgin Email Outage Reported; Company Denies Widespread Problems
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Some UK users are still complaining that their broadband is down. Virgin reportedly confirms a technical issue. ...
- Massachusetts AG Urges FCC To Reject Charter's Request To Allow Data Caps
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 24, 2020
"In light of the continued pandemic, the resulting increase in residential broadband use, and Charter's position as the sole fixed-broadband provider in almost all of its Massachusetts territories, it is ...
- FCC Should Reject Charter Petition Over Data Caps, Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 22, 2020
It's "hard to imagine a worse time for Charter to ask for permission to hike prices on consumers and restrict broadband service," the groups write. ...
- Verizon Ads Mislead About 5G Availability, Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Verizon should "discontinue claims communicating that its 5G service is widely available in cities across the country," the National Advertising Division recommends in an opinion released Tuesday. ...
- Biden-Sanders Task Force Backs Net Neutrality, Municipal Broadband
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 9, 2020
"Democrats will restore the FCC's clear authority to take strong enforcement action against broadband providers who violate net neutrality principles through blocking, throttling, paid prioritization, or other measures that create ...
- Maine Privacy Law Survives Challenge By Broadband Industry
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 8, 2020
A judge has rejected the broadband industry's bid to immediately throw out Maine's new opt-in privacy law on the grounds that it conflicts with federal policy. ...
- 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 ...
