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…
Time Warner Cable initially took their time deploying faster DOCSIS 3.0 speeds, priced them well beyond what most sane people were willing to pay (often in upscale “Signature Home” packages), then complained that the services weren’t initially seeing q…
Buried under the roar of CES recently was a little swipe at Comcast by Republican FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, who suggested that Comcast may have misled regulators by pretending to acquire precious AWS spectrum licenses for need, only to then sub…
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…
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has added InstallerNet to its home monitoring and control service deployment team where the installation company will conduct professional installation for the new service.
Verizon’s home security service.
As announc…
Frontier Communications (Nasdaq: FTR) has employed the help of Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN) to enhance its metro optical backbone network in its Pennsylvania market.
By deploying Infinera’s ATN, Frontier can support its metro optical network transport found…
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is adding more local content flavor to its FiOS service in New York’s capital region: It will soon begin carrying some Siena College, University at Albany and Syracuse University basketball games this winter thanks to a new agreement…
Some companies (like Time Warner Cable) don’t see significant competitive pressure from FiOS or U-Verse — and with slow DSL as their only competitive threat, have been somewhat glacial in getting faster DOCSIS 3.0 speeds deployed. Comcast, facing FiOS…
Earlier this month Sanford Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett lustfully predicted that one of the major U.S. cable operators would implement per-byte overages in 2012. While Time Warner Cable, Cox and Charter are either interested — or have tried and fai…
Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR) has begun charging its customers a mandatory modem fee with no option to purchase.
As reported in Broadband DSL Reports citing one of its forum readers, the fee, which was launched earlier this year, only lets new su…