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  • September 2008

    • Comcast Web Caps May Signal End of an Era

      ABC News  |  Sep 2, 08 4:33 PM CDT

      Comcast Web Caps May Signal End of an Era

      (Newser) - With Comcast setting a limit on Internet usage beginning next month, the end of the Internet as we know it may be at hand, as ISPs move toward usage-based models like public utilities. Comcast, the second-largest US Internet provider, was careful to say that the bandwidth limit is so high—250 gigabytes per month—it won't affect 99% of customers. But "today's bandwidth hog is tomorrow's average user," one critic tells ABC. More »

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      Internet  • Comcast  • telecom industry  • net neutrality  • Internet service providers  • bandwidth usage  • Time Warner Cable

  • August 2008

    • Comcast Caps Internet Use, Says 99% Won't Notice

      Reuters  |  Aug 29, 08 2:27 PM CDT

      Comcast Caps Internet Use, Says 99% Won't Notice

      (Newser) - Comcast subscribers will soon have their Internet usage capped, Reuters reports. From Oct. 1, the nation’s largest cable operator will limit monthly residential data use to 250 gigabytes to improve the quality of Internet delivery. The company says up to 99% of its subscribers will be unaffected by the cap—equivalent to 50 million emails or 124 standard-definition movies. More »

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      Internet  • FCC  • Comcast  • broadband Internet  • Time Warner Cable  • peer-to-peer

  • June 2008
  • April 2008

    • Competition for Cable Customers Turns Nasty

      Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 28, 08 9:05 AM CDT

      Competition for Cable Customers Turns Nasty

      (Newser) - The battle for a larger share of TV customers has taken a nasty turn as companies like Time Warner, DirecTV, and Verizon hone ad campaigns highlighting rivals' shortcomings, the Wall Street Journal reports. It's not the first time operators have taken shots at each other, but it signals a ramping-up of marketing wars as the industry gets more crowded. More »

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      advertising  • Verizon  • marketing  • AT&T  • DirecTV  • Time Warner Cable

  • March 2008

    • Comcast, Time Warner Weigh $1.5B WiMax Investment

      Wall Street Journal  |  Mar 26, 08 3:13 PM CDT

      Comcast, Time Warner Weigh $1.5B WiMax Investment

      (Newser) - Sprint Nextel and Clearwire, looking for funding in their bid to build a nationwide high-speed wireless network, may have found partners in Comcast and Time Warner, reports the Wall Street Journal. The country’s two largest cable operators are weighing a combined pledge of $1.5 billion to the project; Sprint and Clearwire hope to raise $3 billion overall. More »

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      Comcast  • broadband Internet  • Sprint  • Clearwire  • Time Warner Cable  • WiMAX

  • February 2008

    • Time Warner Plans AOL Spin-Off

      Wall Street Journal  |  Feb 6, 08 11:44 AM CST

      Time Warner Plans AOL Spin-Off

      (Newser) - In an effort to revive the company's slumping stock, Time Warner's new CEO plans to break up AOL, keeping its growing online ad properties, but unloading its increasingly obsolete dial-up Internet service provider. Operating income at AOL fell 70% in the fourth quarter, as the company continued to lose Internet-access customers, the Wall Street Journal reports.  More »

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      Wall Street  • AOL  • Time Warner  • cable industry  • Time Warner Cable  • Jeffrey Bewkes

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