DirecTV and Dish Merger

Posted on August 6, 2008 - Filed Under Cable, General, Satellite TV | Leave a Comment

Back several years ago, the two satellite TV companies, DirecTV and DishNetwork tried to work up a merger. Of course, the FCC stepped in and said no, it’s not going to happen.
Well, rumors are that the two companies would like to try it again, except

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Cablevision DVR

Posted on August 4, 2008 - Filed Under Cable, Cablevision | Leave a Comment

If you are a Cablevision customer, your provider has been wanting to offer you an innovative new product but have been prevented from doing so by the US legal system.
Cablevision had one court block their attempt to provide a unique DVR service after being sued by Disney, Time Warner, and others. However,

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Comcast Ups Speed

Posted on June 15, 2008 - Filed Under AT&T, Cable, Comcast, DSL, Internet, Time-Warner | 1 Comment

Comcast says it will increase the upload speeds of two levels of its cable Internet service, providing a faster way for customers to upload files. The upload performance will increase at no additional cost. Comcast will increase the upload speed

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AT&T Surcharge

Posted on June 12, 2008 - Filed Under AT&T, Cable, DSL, Internet | 2 Comments

My good friend AT&T Inc., the country’s largest Internet provider, is considering charging extra for customers who download large amounts of data. (Grrrr!)
The top 5 percent of AT&T’s DSL customers use 46 percent of the total bandwidth, according to a company spokesman.

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Data Throttling

Posted on June 2, 2008 - Filed Under Cable, Internet | 2 Comments

This week, new Time-Warner cable Internet customers in Beaumont, Texas will not be given unmetered Internet bandwidth - they will instead become the first to be billed under TW’s new choke-’em down plan that will provide users between 5 and 40 gigabytes in total monthly data usage (that is total, uploads and downloads combined).

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