Netflix Also Talking Deals With AT&T, Verizon
(formatc1)Following Sunday’s announcement that Netflix had agreed to start paying Comcast for a better, more direct connection to the cable company’s broadband network, both AT&T and Verizon said...
View ArticleVerizon, Netflix Stepping Up Battle To Blame Each Other For Poor Streaming...
(Jeffrey)The heat of high summer is a great time to stay inside and marathon a million hours of TV. But for some Netflix customers who use Verizon as their ISP, the summer streaming season is a slow...
View ArticleStudy Finds Internet Congestion Really Is About Business, Not Technology
(frankieleon) Various enormous corporations have this year been at each other’s throats over how well or how poorly internet traffic travels through their systems. A new report indicates that some of...
View ArticleVerizon: We Can Basically Charge Netflix For Peering Forever And There’s...
(chrismar) The FCC is facing a lot of opposition this year, but Verizon in particular just really seems to thrive on challenging the agency. The latest move from the telco giant is a message to the FCC...
View ArticleWhat You Need To Know About Tomorrow’s Votes On Net Neutrality And Municipal...
On Thursday morning, the Federal Communications Commission will sit down to discuss and vote on two big issues — net neutrality and municipal broadband — that the cable and telecom industries have...
View Article4 Things We Still Don’t Know About Net Neutrality
(Julio Marquez) The FCC voted yesterday to reclassify broadband and protect the open internet. In other words, at long last, we have a net neutrality rule. And that’s great! But there is still a lot we...
View ArticleWhat Will Comcast Do With The $45B It Couldn’t Spend Buying Time Warner Cable?
(Steven DePolo) Comcast’s dream of achieving full coast-to-coast cable dominance this year came to an official end this morning when they had to admit the Time Warner Cable merger was just not going to...
View ArticleNetflix Is Totally In Favor Of Charter’s Plan To Buy TWC Because It Will Save...
Netflix is almost 37% of all prime-time internet traffic. ISPs have been known to degrade that traffic until Netflix pays for peering. Netflix really hates having to make (and pay for) those...
View ArticleCharter/Time Warner Cable Merger Plan Great For Everyone, According To Charter
A couple of weeks ago, the FCC collected everyone’s comments about why Charter should or should not be allowed to go through with buying Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks in one massive...
View ArticleCenturyLink Snapping Up Level 3 For $34 Billion To Make Internet Service Voltron
Boo! If you think mergers and acquisitions are scary, than two huge companies have a special Halloween morning treat for you: CenturyLink and Level 3 announced this morning that the former is acquiring...
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