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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In a Jan. 14 story, The Associated Press, relying on information from Comcast Corp., erroneously reported the company had received letters of inquiry from the Federal Communications Commission. The company received one letter, not multiple, regarding complaints that it actively interferes with its subscribers' Internet traffic.
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UPN is adding "Cuts" to its midseason schedule.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Cable companies are planning to charge more for set-top boxes to help pay for new, more expensive versions mandated by the Federal Communications Commission.
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Cablevision&#39;s MSG Network and Fox Sports NY will lose big ad bucks and be forced to cut the prices they charge cable and satellite companies now that the Mets have walked away to start their own channel, media insiders said yesterday.
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New FCC-mandated system relocates cable TV security outside the cable box. Don't count on any real benefits.
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The networkâs charge for access to content over the Internet has been troubling.
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The net is having to grow in order to meet fresh demands such as high definition video on the web.
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The cable industry is under attack, but Comcast can and will fight back.
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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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EarthLink's contract to build a municipal Wi-Fi network in San Francisco appears to be a victim of the company's financial struggle.
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By Andrew D. Smith, The Dallas Morning News  Mar. 6--Today marks the beginning of a battle for cable TV and broadband Internet customers around Dallas and Fort Worth -- a battle that may mean sharply lower prices for all consumers.   AT&T Inc.
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By Virgil Larson, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Mar. 7--A new federal rule is meant to put competition into cable TV, but don't look for a new system in your neighborhood anytime soon.
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Cable companies are planning to charge more for set-top boxes to help pay for new, more expensive versions mandated by the Federal Communications Commission.
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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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In a new competitive threat to Cablevision&#39;s cable-television and Internet services, Verizon Communications yesterday announced it will string fiber-optic connections directly to homes and
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Company is holding back high-speed fiber service out of fear that it will have to lease the links to rivals at below its own cost.