New cable cut compounds net woes
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A third submarine internet cable is severed in the Middle East, compounding global net problems.
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Sources say FCC on Tuesday will further exempt Internet calls from state rules and taxes. But is cable a fly in the ointment?
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TO THE EDITOR:           Record profits, no accountability, greed. The latest Comcast rate increase is explained by the need to improve services. What ever happened to investing profits to enhance service? Comcast is truly the poster child for de-regulation of a monopoly.
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Cable provider's costly services, combined with its pricey stock, should give pause.
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A recent court ruling paves the way for you to throw out your cable TV decoder and use the space for something else -- like a TiVo Series3. But the technology has its drawbacks. By Chris Kohler.
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(InfoWorld) - Guns, saws, and some very dim-witted thieves were all apparently involved in a network blackout that affected Internet users, primarily in the northeastern United States, earlier this week. Cogent Communications said Thursday that a cable cut that occurred near Cleveland on Sunday night was caused by a saw, not by gunshot as first thought, but technicians struggling to replace the cut cable used a replacement cable that had been shot. Cogent was one of several operators affected through Monday evening when two-thirds of a mileÂ of cable was cut between Cleveland and the tiny town of Montville, Ohio. With more than 32,500 miles of fiber, Cogent is one of the largest network operators in the United States. Crews rushed in to fix the problem only to discover that their replacement cable had been damaged by gunshots. "The original cable was not shot, it was the replacement cable," Cogent said Thursday. "The original cable was cut with a saw of some sort. Police are speculating that the thieves thought the cable was made of copper." Copper prices have spiked in recent years, spurred in part by increased demand from China, and theft of all kinds of copper, including wires, has become common. Unfortunately for the Cleveland thieves, fiber-optic cable is made of glass fibers, not metal. Cogent did not name the service provider whose lines had been cut, but a source familiar with the situation said the lines are owned by Level 3 Communications. Level 3 did not return calls seeking comment. TeliaSonera lost the northern leg of its U.S. network to the cut, the company said. Grant Gross in Washington contributed to this story.
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New customer additions slowed at the cable company amid intensified competition from phone and satellite TV companies.
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By Josh Gelinas< South Carolina Bureau Chief  AIKEN - The county's new cable provider, Atlantic Broadband, shed the  name of its predecessor Tuesday and outlined how it is spending $7 million  to improve television, Internet and phone services in Aiken and its  surrounding communities.
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Save at least $3/month on your cable Internet bill by turning in your leased modem and switching to the D-Link DCM-202, which you can snag for $19.99 (after a $20 mail-in rebate).
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Time Warner Cable plans to test a new price plan that would limit how much customers can download.
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Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino said RCN's 2007 cable rates are too high. The cost of the "full basic" cable package, which includes 60 channels, is rising 8 percent, from $49.95 to $53.95 when sold alone, according to the mayor's office. In a statement, Menino said, "We are concerned with the increases in both bundled and RCN's standard ...
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By Katy Stech, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Feb. 3--Two local television stations could be temporarily dropped from  Comcast Corp. subscribers' television lineup if the company does not reach an  agreement with its provider soon.
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UPN is adding "Cuts" to its midseason schedule.
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Net neutrality could undermine the economic incentive for Asian carriers to build and maintain faster networks.
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India's lucrative outsourcing industry struggled Thursday to overcome Internet slowdowns and outages after cuts in two undersea cables sliced the country's bandwidth in half.
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The cost of broadband internet access is likely to fall after Ofcom ordered British Telecom to cut the amount it charges internet providers.
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By JOHN DUNBAR  WASHINGTON - Cable television rates keep going up while prices for other communications services are going down, says the nation's chief communications regulator, and he blames local governments for blocking competition.