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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…

Time Warner: 1 Year of Free Phone to 50 Mbps Users – Though Offer Appears Restricted to New York City Market

Published on January 30, 2012 By Don

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…

Comcast Says DOCSIS 3.0 Upgrades Complete – Hopefully You Got In On Them?

Published on January 6, 2012 By Don

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…

‘Tis The Season for Another Comcast Rate Hike – Comcast Rings in New Year With Significant Increases

Published on November 23, 2011 By Don

Right on the heels of a suite of new price hikes by Time Warner Cable, Comcast is also ringing in the holiday season with price increases that will impact both the company’s broadband and television subscribers. This pricing change sheet being sent to …

Time Warner Cable Loses Cable, VoIP Customers – Earnings Miss Most Wall Street Estimates

Published on October 27, 2011 By Don

Time Warner Cable posted their third quarter earnings this morning, the company missing most Wall Street analyst predictions with income that dropped to $356 million from $360 million. The erosion of basic cable customers continued, with Time Warner Ca…

Getting That Last Mile Coax Run Can Be Costly – Time Warner Wants $20,000 for 2,583 Feet of Cable

Published on October 20, 2011 By Don

The difference between the broadband haves and the broadband have-nots often comes down to a couple hundred feet. When dealing with a cable provider, users just out of range of cable can sometimes pony up the costs to have the coax or fiber run a litt…

Time Warner Shows Off NYC Underground Fiber Mess – Broken Steam Pipe, Fire Responsible for Oct. Outage

Published on October 20, 2011 By Don

Earlier this month Time Warner Cable had a significant outage in the East Village of New York City. The company has posted an interesting look at what caused the fire over at their official company “Untangled” blog, noting that the outage began after a…

Hawaiian Telcom’s TV franchise allows it to compete against Oceanic Time Warner

Published on June 28, 2011 By Don

The days of Oceanic Time Warner’s near monopoly on Hawaii’s TV may be numbered as it will soon face a new competitor in Hawaiian Telcom, which just received a cable TV license.  
Last Friday, Hawaiian Telcom was granted a 15-year cable franchise b…

Larissa Herda, tw telecom: Wireline’s most powerful people

Published on June 22, 2011 By Don

What makes her powerful:

Larissa Herda, tw telecom

Since becoming CEO and President of tw telecom (Nasdaq: TWTC), a service provider once known as Time Warner Telecom in a joint venture with Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC), Larissa Herd…

NC governor wants legislature to rework municipal broadband bill, but doesn’t veto it

Published on May 23, 2011 By Don

Beverly Perdue, the governor of North Carolina, may have made her opinion known that she does not like the legislature’s completed anti-municipal broadband bill, but has no plans to prevent it from becoming law either.
The governor would like to see th…