Copyright 2005 Globe Newspaper Company The Boston GlobeDecember 14, 2005 Wednesday THIRD EDITIONBy Keith Reed, Globe Staff From LexisNexis RCN Corp., a cable company with subscribers in Massachusetts, yesterday offered to test a pricing plan that would give subscribers greater flexibility to choose the channels they want, another sign that the cable industry’s decades-long united […]
RCN offers to test a la carte pricing;Cable firm relents following Senate decency hearings(2)
Copyright 2005 Globe Newspaper Company The Boston GlobeDecember 14, 2005 Wednesday THIRD EDITIONBy Keith Reed, Globe Staff From LexisNexis RCN Corp., a cable company with subscribers in Massachusetts, yesterday offered to test a pricing plan that would give subscribers greater flexibility to choose the channels they want, another sign that the cable industry’s decades-long united […]
IP Capsule – December 08, 2005
www.cedmagazine.com | CED Broadband Direct | Current Issue | Subscriptions December 8, 2005 As a reader of CED eNewsletters, we would like to provide you with our latest newsletter offering, the weekly IP Capsule. If you do not want to receive this news and analysis about IP voice, video and data, please unsubscribe as outlined […]
XOD Capsule – November 15, 2005
xOD Capsule Newsletter www.cedmagazine.com | CED Broadband Direct | Current Issue | Subscriptions Nov. 15, 2005 It’s the end of the [TV] world as we know it But, with apologies to REM, does everyone feel fine? After Apple recently introduced its video iPod with a content deal with Disney/ABC in-tow, it was growing clear that […]
SBC head ignites access debate
Copyright 2005 Post-Newsweek Business Information, Inc. Newsbytes November 4, 2005, Friday Arshad Mohammed; Washington Post Staff Writer From LexisNexis The head of a major telecommunications company stirred up a hornet’s nest this week by suggesting that he wants to charge companies like Google and Yahoo a fee for bringing them into consumers’ homes. SBC Communications […]
Comcast chief hints at plan to competeCable firm to push content as Verizon mounts challenge(2)
Copyright 2005 Globe Newspaper CompanyThe Boston GlobeOctober 7, 2005, Friday THIRD EDITIONBUSINESS; Pg. C3722 words By Keith Reed, Globe Staff WALTHAM – Comcast Corp.’s future in the cable business depends on offering more content to its subscribers, in many cases for free, the company’s chief executive, Brian Roberts, said in a speech here yesterday. Addressing […]
Comcast chief hints at plan to competeCable firm to push content as Verizon mounts challenge
Copyright 2005 Globe Newspaper Company The Boston Globe October 7, 2005, Friday THIRD EDITION BUSINESS; Pg. C3 722 words By Keith Reed, Globe Staff WALTHAM – Comcast Corp.’s future in the cable business depends on offering more content to its subscribers, in many cases for free, the company’s chief executive, Brian Roberts, said in a […]
xOD Capsule – September 29, 2005
xOD Capsule Newsletter www.cedmagazine.com CED Broadband Direct Current Issue Subscriptions Sept. 29, 2005 China going ‘over-the-top?’ With a country full of Akimbos and DaveTVs, the “over-the-top” concept in the U.S. is a bit like yesterday’s news. There are plenty of content companies out there that are using high-speed pipes to distribute mainstream and niche content […]
FTTH Council doles out annual awards
In a preview of next month’s FTTH Conference and Expo in Las Vegas, the Fiber-to-the-Home Council has announced its 2005 award winners. • The President’s Award goes to Joey Durel, the mayor-president of Lafayette City-Parish, La. The Council is recognizing him for his commitment to a campaign and referendum for the Lafayette Fiber-to-the-Home Project. He […]
Charter accuses Georgia contractor of bribing officials
Copyright 2005 Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Copyright 2005 St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) September 21, 2005, Wednesday By Jerri Stroud From Lexis Nexis Charter Communications Inc. is accusing a contractor in Georgia of bribing three former Charter officials as part of a scheme to garner millions of dollars in contracts for upgrading […]