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AT&T takes U-verse service to Ottawa, Kan., to challenge cable incumbent Allegiance

Published on May 14, 2012 By Don

AT&T (NYSE: T) is taking on local cable video incumbent Allegiance Communications by launching its U-verse video, voice and data service suite in Ottawa, Kan.
The Sunflower State has been another growth market for U-verse service. Since entering…

Frontier’s next-gen FTTN plan will leverage AT&T’s U-verse technology

Published on April 9, 2012 By Don

Frontier (Nasdaq: FTR) may have found the answer to its next-gen last mile prayers in AT&T’s (NYSE: T) U-verse Fiber to the Node (FTTN) technology.
As reported in Stop The Cap!, which obtained documents about its potential plans, the telco has inti…

TiVO Sues Time Warner Cable, Motorola Over DVR Patents – TiVO’s Courtroom Adventure Tour Continues…

Published on March 26, 2012 By Don

Back in January TiVO got AT&T to pay out $215 million for DVR-related patent violations, or roughly $59.72 for each of AT&T’s 3.6 million U-Verse TV subscribers. This was after Dish was forced to pay out nearly twice that amount. TiVO’s now setting the…

FCC Wonders About Verizon’s Spectrum Crunch Math – Digging Deeply Into New Cable Industry Deal

Published on March 9, 2012 By Don

In December Verizon, Time Warner Cable, Comcast and Bright House announced a massive deal that not only involved the sale of $3.6 billion in cable industry spectrum to Verizon, but also gave the telco the right to bundle their wireless service with the…

Minnesota Wants to be a Broadband Backwater – Thanks, CenturyLink!

Published on March 7, 2012 By Don

Over the last ten years, dozens of States have passed bills literally written by incumbent ISPs, banning or restricting the rights of local communities to wire themselves with broadband — even if the local ISP won’t. More recently such efforts have be…

AT&T expands U-verse reach in Kansas City, lets Google share poles

Published on March 4, 2012 By Don

AT&T (NYSE: T) U-verse has hit the 400,000 living unit milestone Kansas City market with its U-verse service five years after launching the service in the area.  But the more page-turning news about AT&T is that it is going to let Google (…

Comcast Still Not Interested in Usage-Based Pricing – Doesn’t Want to Hurt Customer Satisfaction Rankings

Published on February 29, 2012 By Don

Responding to Time Warner Cable’s latest usage-based pricing experiment, Comcast executives say they still have no intention of experimenting with metered billing. “We have a very high customer satisfaction rating and we don’t really want to rock the b…

Time Warner Cable Returns to (Optional) Metered Billing – Promises Users Will Always Have Option of Unlimited

Published on February 28, 2012 By Don

Time Warner Cable suffered a PR disaster back in 2009 when they tried to impose incredibly low caps and high overages on their customers, arguing at the time that flat rate pricing simply wasn’t economically viable — and that they simply had to starti…

Time Warner Cable Returns to (Optional, For Now) Metered Billing – Save $5 on Slower Tiers if You Agree to 5 GB Cap

Published on February 28, 2012 By Don

Time Warner Cable suffered a PR disaster back in 2009 when they tried to impose incredibly low caps and high overages on their customers, arguing at the time that flat rate pricing simply wasn’t economically viable — and that they simply had to starti…

Google to test out TV in Kansas City, Mo.

Published on February 23, 2012 By Don

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), according to a New York Post report, will begin a video trial in Kansas City, Mo. that would be offered on its Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) network.
The service provider recently applied for a video franchise license with the Mis…