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Time Warner Cable tries to lure DOCSIS 3 users with free VoIP

Published on January 30, 2012 By Don

Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) has taken another tack in its New York market to entice more users to sign up for its 50 Mbps DOCSIS 3 speed tier by offering one year of free VoIP service.  
The new promotion is clearly another effort to more effect…

WildBlue Users: Exede Is Not What You Promised Us – Faster Speeds Come With Higher Prices, Lower Caps

Published on January 23, 2012 By Don

The other day we noted that while ViaSat heavily hyped their new “Exede” satellite broadband service at CES, now that the service has supposedly launched, many users note they can’t actually get it yet. Existing users who have been waiting for this upg…

Cable ISPs Offered Fastest Speeds in 2011* – *At Least Among Largest ISPs, And Thanks to Slow DSL

Published on January 16, 2012 By Don

Todd Spangler over at cable-industry trade magazine Multichannel News crows that cable operators came out on top in 2011 in terms of speed. According to data compiled over at the Ookla Net Index, the six fastest residential ISPs in the U.S. based on av…

CenturyLink to bring IPTV to Qwest markets, expand FTTN network

Published on January 9, 2012 By Don

CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has made it official that it’s going to extend its Prism IPTV service into the former Qwest territory with plans to bring it into one or two markets this year.

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Ewing revealed the ILEC’s plans during the 22…

Cablevision, Verizon Settle FiOS Ad Dispute – Can Get Back to Fighting About Other Things

Published on December 20, 2011 By Don

Earlier this month Cablevision sued Verizon for FiOS ads highlighting FCC data showing that Cablevision wasn’t delivering the speeds users are paying for. As of August, Cablevision delivered just 50% of advertised speed during peak periods, a fact Veri…

SureWest gives Kansas City business customers free DOCSIS 3.0 speed updates

Published on December 19, 2011 By Don

SureWest Communications (Nasdaq: SURW) is giving a free speed boost to its Kansas City commercial Internet customers that are served by its HFC-based cable network.
Made possible via its DOCSIS 3.0 upgrade, SureWest will be able to offer Internet packa…

UPDATED: UK consumers aren’t cozying up to higher speed broadband

Published on December 15, 2011 By Don

For all of the promise that BT (NYSE: BT) and its competitive carrier customers believe they can bring with its Fiber to the X drive, the reality is that most consumers aren’t exactly signing up in droves.
A new report from Ofcom, UK’s telecom regulato…

Domestic, global regulators question ISPs’ actual broadband speeds

Published on December 13, 2011 By Don

Whether it’s a telco or a cable operator, broadband service providers, in their effort to attract subscribers, have always led in their ads with how fast their download speeds are, but government regulators believe they need to be honest with what spee…

After Lawsuit, Verizon to Modify FiOS Ads Slightly – Still Argues That Cablevision Under Delivers Bandwidth

Published on December 13, 2011 By Don

Last week we noted that Cablevision had sued Verizon for FiOS ads highlighting that Cablevision wasn’t delivering the speeds users are paying for. According to FCC data from last August, Cablevision delivered just 50% of advertised speed during peak pe…

BT to extend fiber-based broadband to Scotland and Cornwall

Published on December 12, 2011 By Don

BT (NYSE: BT) is dedicating about £2.5 billion ($3.92 billion) to bring Fiber-to-the-X-based broadband in its Scotland serving area.
Set to cover about 277,000 premises, BT will begin making upgrades in 2012 covering 34 exchange areas, including …