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A Cable Merger Too Far
There are good reasons the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission should block Comcast’s $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable. The merger will concentrate too much market power in the hands of one company, creating a telecommunications colossus the likes of which the country has not seen since 1984 when the government forced the breakup of the original AT&T telephone monopoly.
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Comcastic
Comcast, a perennial champion in the “Most Hated Companies” surveys, has now figured out a way to have me pay to help construct a nationwide network of public WiFi hotspots, using equipment inside my house. Comcast plans to offer public access to the WiFi network inside my house for rates starting at $2.95 an hour. Here’s how it works.
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Netflix Lets People Know When Bad Streaming Is the ISP's Fault
Last night, Yuri Victor tweeted a screenshot of a new Netflix error message he saw while a video was buffering. It tells Verizon customers exactly what's to blame for slow video. And judging by the response from Netflix's spokesperson Jonathan Friedland, it's no mistake.
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Hundreds of Cities Are Wired With Fiber—But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unused
In light of the ongoing net neutrality battle, many people have begun looking to Google and its promise of high-speed fiber as a potential saving grace from companies that want to create an "internet fast lane." Well, the fact is, even without Google, many communities and cities throughout the country are already wired with fiber—they just don't let their residents use it.
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Verizon demands Netflix stop messages on slow streaming
Verizon Communications Inc on Thursday demanded that Netflix Inc immediately stop displaying messages to customers that place blame on Verizon's broadband service for slow delivery of Netflix TV shows and movies. The letter is the latest sign of tension between content providers like Netflix and Internet service providers over who should pay the price for companies that stream heavy traffic online.
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Cable Companies Are Astroturfing Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality
Consumer advocates everywhere are demanding that the Federal Communication Commission continue down its current path for shelving net neutrality and allowing a two-tiered internet. That is, if cable company-created front groups and other industry-funded organizations are to be believed.
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Verizon demands Netflix stop messages on slow streaming
Verizon Communications Inc on Thursday demanded that Netflix Inc immediately stop displaying messages to customers that place blame on Verizon's broadband service for slow delivery of Netflix TV shows and movies. The letter is the latest sign of tension between content providers like Netflix and Internet service providers over who should pay the price for companies that stream heavy traffic online.
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Verizon says it wants to kill net neutrality to help blind, deaf, and disabled people
Lobbyists are telling Congress that the administration's plan to create internet fast lanes and slow lanes is important for Americans with disabilities.
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Yup, 1-800-COLLECT is still in business—and charging massive fees
If you had a TV and were alive in the early 1990s, you probably saw the ubiquitous ads from 1-800-COLLECT in which celebrities like Phil Hartman, Chris Rock, and Arsenio Hall implored payphone users to save cash on collect calls by using the company's eponymous service.
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Wireless lobbyists are fighting to ensure net neutrality never applies to mobile networks
Though it has been diluted by the Federal Communications Commission in its current form, the idea of “net neutrality” was initially put in place in order to ensure that Internet services delivered to American consumers are kept fair and neutral for consumers and for content owners.
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Isis mobile wallet to change name to avoid confusion with Islamic terror group ISIS
MOBILE wallet service Isis is changing its name to distance itself from an acronym used to refer to militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). US telecom companies AT & T, T-Mobile, and Verizon four years ago teamed together to back Isis, software that takes advantage of near-field communication chips in smartphones to allow people to make transactions by tapping mobile devices on sensor-enabled pads at shops.
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The Comcast-TWC merger suffers its biggest blow yet
Is the tide starting to turn inexorably against the hugely unpopular proposed Comcast-TWC merger? The Los Angeles Times brings us word that satellite TV company Dish has officially come out against the merger and has told the Federal Communications Commission that it should block the deal.
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FCC has received over 647,000 net neutrality comments as deadline approaches
Over half a million Americans have shared their feelings on net neutrality with the FCC as the commission ponders new rules that could drastically reshape the internet. Earlier this afternoon, Chairman Tom Wheeler reported that the FCC has so far received around 647,000 comments as the July 15th deadline for initial feedback approaches.
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Cancelling Comcast Over the Phone is Hard
How hard can it be to disconnect from your internet and cable provider? It’s a battle if you are a Comcast customer, according to the experience AOL’s Ryan Block and his wife Veronica Belmont recently went through.
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What a terrible Comcast rep can teach regulators about the Time Warner Cable merger
Economic and antitrust analysis is great and all, but dispassionate assessments come with an emotional blind spot.
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Comcast’s worst nightmare: How Tennessee could save America’s Internet
Chattanooga's public electric utility offers residents lightning-quick connections - much to big telecoms' dismay
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House Republicans Are Killing the Dream of Local High-Speed Fiber Internet
The conservative small government movement has gained momentum based on the principle that decisions are best made at a local level, because people know what they want better than the federal government does. So why is a contingent of small government-minded congressional representatives trying to dick over local governments when it comes to high-speed internet access?
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Comcast admits its policies are responsible for customer harassment
Comcast plans to reexamine the way it tries to keep subscribers from leaving its service, after a nightmarish call with one customer went viral last week and led to an outpouring of criticism. The recorded call included eight minutes of what Comcast calls a "Retention" agent attempting to argue a customer down from leaving, and Comcast now admits that much of this aggressive behavior was its own fault.
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Title II is the only path to net neutrality. Here's why almost nobody thinks the FCC will take it
The entire debate over what to do about big broadband companies boils down to one phrase: Title II, which is the FCC’s only source of real power. Here’s an explanation of what it is and why insiders think the FCC won’t dare use it.
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The Judges Approving the NSA's Surveillance Requests Keep Buying Verizon Stock
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) is packed with judges who own stock in the telecom companies handing over data to the government.
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