TV blackouts are at a record high this year, as content providers try to squeeze more and more money out of cable bundle customers. The latest network to play the game is FOX, who are demanding a modest 114% fee increase from Cablevision. The cable company knows that customers are already cutting cable and switching [...]
Comcast sees the approaching problem: “An entire generation is growing up, if we don’t figure out how to change that behavior so it respects copyright and subscription revenue on the part of distributors, we’re going to wake up and see cord cutting.” While most people are taking this as a pirates vs media or Hulu [...]
Wouldn’t it be great to have 50Mbps fiber broadband for $50 a month? That’s 5× faster than Time Warner’s fastest offering. If the experience of Monticello, MN is anything to go by, all we need to do is get the City of Austin to start building a city-owned broadband backbone…
…at least, it is in Minnesota: The local telephone company in an 11,000-person Minnesota town objected when the town decided to lay its own fiber optic network. The telco filed a lawsuit, and then suddenly rolled out its own fiber network while the case was tied up in courts. Today, a state appeals court ruled [...]
Every time there’s an article about Time Warner’s plans to cripple their broadband service in order to protect their TV service revenue, I see people make comments like the following: I wouldn’t mind keeping on paying for cable TV if I could just get the channels I want, and not have to pay for dozens [...]
I decided to take a look at a transcript of Time Warner’s most recent quarterly earnings call. I found the following interesting comments from Glenn A. Britt, President and CEO: The reality is we are starting to see the beginnings of core cutting where people, typically young people, are saying all I need is broadband. [...]
I happened to notice that Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) gave a speech at the 2009 National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NTCA) show on April 2nd, just as the news about the Time Warner usage caps was spreading. She told the audience [...] that she would resist efforts to mandate a la carte and network [...]
