Verizon Closes in on Comcast
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By Mike Rogoway, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Feb. 2--Verizon Communications Inc. has a preliminary deal with cable  television regulators to start offering TV service in Washington County, a  long-anticipated challenge to Comcast Corp.   The pact, due for consideration Feb.
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Secret bandwidth caps Promoters of Comcast Internet are fond of boasting their superiority over DSL and other types of connectivity, pointing to the cable service's "mindblowing speed" and "unlimited" usage plans. Here's what they won't tell you: Comcast has a secret cap on the amount of data users can download, and those going over the limit can find their accounts terminated with little notice.â¦
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NEW YORK, July 16 -- The Dow Jones industrial average hit a new record close Monday as news of a potential telecom deal involving Verizon nudged the average closer to 14,000. Overall, stocks were mixed as investors contemplated the market's huge gains last week.
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SAN FRANCISCO--Verizon Communications, one of the largest local phone providers in the country, is the latest carrier to select Linksys to provide Internet telephony to consumers.
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By Jeffrey Kelley, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Dec. 14--City of Richmond residents will be able to sign up for  television service from Verizon Communications Inc. by the end the month.
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Verizon Communications Inc. said yesterday it will extend a powerful new fiber-optic network capable of delivering cable television to 1 million US homes and businesses by year's end, including more than 100,000 in suburban Boston.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Comcast Corp., the nation's biggest cable TV systems operator, said Thursday that its third-quarter profit fell 54 percent and new customer additions slowed amid intensified competition from phone and satellite TV companies.
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By Hanah Cho, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 2--Comcast Corp. said yesterday that its rights to retransmit signals of Baltimore's Fox and CW networks have been extended for another month while the cable provider continues negotiating with Sinclair Broadcasting Group Inc. on a new deal.
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At CES 2008 last month, it was surprising to see Comcast as a brand being tossed around with the likes of Matsushita, Motorola, and Sony. Now it's time to see if its video-on-demand strategy is starting to pay off.
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If the cable operator's efforts to partner with leading gadget makers are successful, those set-top boxes could be a thing of the past.Photo: Comcast's AnyPlay device
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By JEFFREY KELLEY  Verizon Communications Inc. will start selling its new television service in Richmond by early February. Some residents can pre- register for the service.  Company spokesman Harry J.
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The Comcast Corporation confirmed today that it was in talks with Time Warner Inc. to make a joint bid for Adelphia Communications.
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By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Boston Globe  Feb. 19--As the entertainment landscape changes, cable giant Comcast  Corp. is aggressively expanding its offerings to compete against a slew of new  challengers, from YouTube.com to Verizon.
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The biggest U.S. mobile operators, AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless, will close down their analog networks on Monday.
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Verizon&#39;s digital subscriber line service is available to 6,600 additional homes and businesses in the Northampton, Nazareth and Bethlehem areas.
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Comcast Corp.  has become the  first U.S. cable operator to take on telecommunications  providers in the cell phone market, having begun marketing the  service to consumers in Boston.
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Comcast customers report sharing disruptions; venture capitalists go shopping and more.