A month after announcing its intentions to buy Cablevision for a whopping $17.7 billion, Altice has officially filed with the FCC to purchase Cablevision from the Dolan family. In the filing, which you can read here, Altice reiterates its contention that its Cablevision purchase won’t cause anticompetitive effects in the New York market, citing Verizon’s […]
Chattanooga Rolls Out First Community-Wide 10Gbps Service with Help from Alcatel-Lucent
Chattanooga, the first city in the U.S. to build a community-wide fiber optic 1Gbps network, has now announced that municipal utility EPB Fiber Optics is now offering what they are saying is the world’s first 10 gigabit (10 Gig) Internet service to be made available across a large community-wide territory. Unlike point-to-point commercial installations, which […]
Comcast-NBC Universal Launches Seeso, Comedy Video App
Comcast-NBC Universal announced today that it is launching Seeso, its own play for an OTT video subscription service. What makes Seeso different from its competitors? Seeso is emphasizing NBC Universal’s deep well of comedy material, as it is exclusively a comedy channel app. Seeso will run subscribers $3.99 a month, and will feature clips—and one […]
Time Warner Cable Announces TechTracker for Service Calls
In a move that points towards tech tracking apps becoming an industry standard, Time Warner Cable has announced its TechTracker app, a tool that allows users to track their technicians as they come for service calls. The news comes a few weeks after Comcast and Dish rolled out their own tech trackers. TWC TechTracker […]
Charter Is Testing Cisco’s Remote DVR Technology
The FCC’s review of the proposed Charter-Time Warner Cable merger has revealed something interesting about Charter’s future plans. According to a report filed with the FCC this week by Cisco, Charter has been testing Cisco’s Remote DVR technology. As first uncovered by FierceCable, Cisco has been working on Remote DVR—basically DVR over the cloud, which […]
Netflix Announces Quarterly Earnings, Subscriber Numbers Don’t Meet Predictions
Netflix announced its Q3 2015 earnings this afternoon, and despite predictions from market analysts, earnings and subscriber number predictions missed the mark. Earnings per share came in at $.07 on revenue of $1.74 billion, which caused Netflix shares to fall 14% upon release of the news. Netflix said in its earnings report that it ran […]
MoCA Report Finds 90 percent of Coaxial Outlets Have Speeds of 400Mbps
The Multimedia over Coax Alliance has completed MoCA 2.0 field tests in the U.S., and results are surprising. Through testing, 90 percent of all coaxial outlets reach net data rates of 400 Mbps, while 95 percent of all outlets were 350Mbps. “The completion of the MoCA 2.0 field tests confirms the speed, ease of installation […]
Suddenlink Taps ARRIS for Carrier-Grade Wi-Fi Connectivity
Suddenlink announced today that it chose ARRIS to deliver carrier-grade Wi-Fi to its commercial customers in its 17-state service area. “ARRIS Global Services has the proven expertise and leadership in carrier-grade Wi-Fi to deliver the quality and scale of deployment that our customers expect from Suddenlink,” said Ivan Lamoureux, VP of DOCSIS and Network Engineering, […]
New York City Council to Examine Verizon’s FiOS Rollout
For the better part of a year, New York City officials and Verizon spokespeople have been publicly debating the rollout of Verizon’s promised FiOS rollout across all five boroughs. Verizon says they delivered FiOS to everyone who wanted it in all of NYC by the end of November last year (they had promised by the […]
ONOS Project and Linux Foundation Join in Strategic SDN Partnership
ONOS—a creator of open source SDN and NFV projects for service providers—has announced a partnership with the Linux Foundation. The new collaborative project will bring together the community for ONOS to build open source platforms, solutions and ecosystem for service providers to monetize SDN/NFV, while helping vendors and service providers invent new business models. Working […]