Tension is building between the telecom industry, which is using state laws to shut down cities from building broadband networks, and the FCC, where chairman Tom Wheeler repeated a warning that… Read more »
Netflix, the online streaming giant, has signed a paid peering deal with Time Warner Cable, meaning that it now has deals with the four biggest U.S. ISPs. Read more »
Broadband is a big business, and for the first time ever, the number of broadband subscribers has surpassed the number of pay TV subs at major cable providers. Read more »
Apple does not appear to be targeting cord-cutters. Instead, it appears to envision a kind of universal, authenticated TV Everywhere service. Read more »
Three core drivers are changing the television landscape and confusing advertisers: consolidation of big-media distribution, platform-driven viewing fragmentation, and the infiltration of social media into television. Read more »
Some 60 companies and organizations took part in planning meeting for the city’s payphone Wi-Fi project in May. We won’t know if Google is really serious about running the 10,000-hotspot network… Read more »
The second quarter of 2014 saw several major developments in the ongoing restructuring of the pay-TV business but there was little for those banking on a disruption of that industry to… Read more »
Peering may feel esoteric and difficult to understand, but here’s an example why consumers should care about how these interconnection fights play out between Netflix and ISPs. Read more »
The deal isn’t gigantic, adding only about 100 hotspot locations in major transit hubs to TWC’s network, but it could be the beginning of a bigger wireless expansion. Read more »