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    1. Study: Average Cable Bill Will Top $200 By 2020 - Hey Cable Industry. We Need to Talk...

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      Study: Average Cable Bill Will Top $200 By 2020 - Hey Cable Industry. We Need to Talk... According to a new study by the NPD Group, the average cable bill will top $200 a month at current rates. While consumer income remains relatively flat, cable rates have been rising an average of 6 percent per year. Cable operators blame high broadcaster programming rates, but cable operators are culpable too -- raising rates on numerous services like DVRs, while imposing new fees if you want to pay your bills in person. Most consumers continue ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   NPD   Karl Bode   NPD Group

    2. Iran Will Sever Internet Connectivity By August - Starts With Banning of Gmail, Hotmail This Month

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      Iran Will Sever Internet Connectivity By August - Starts With Banning of Gmail, Hotmail This Month Last June we noted that Iranian leaders were tired of having to see the broader world's differing opinions -- so they were cooking up plans to sever all connections to the Internet and build their own Internet (or, more specifically, Intranet). The effort began of course with Internet filters, followed up by the banning of all encrypted and VPN traffic. Now the company is severing access to the broader Internet in phases, and has announced ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   VPN   Karl Bode

    3. CenturyLink Will Offer Bonded VDSL2 Up to 100 Mbps - Currently Testing Services in Denver

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      CenturyLink, forged by the fusion of Qwest, CenturyTel and Embarq, is one of several more rural-focused telcos that's going to have a hard time joining the next-generation speed race and competing with faster cable offerings. While the company's website currently lists their top speed at 40 Mbps, most of their customers may be lucky if they get 3 Mbps downstream. The company appears to be addressing this -- one user noticing this link to ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Qwest   DSL   Embarq

    4. Verizon Stops Selling Standalone DSL to New Users - Tries to Keep Landline Relevant By Forcing You to Buy One

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      Verizon is apparently traveling back in time -- back to when they stubbornly wouldn't sell customers a standalone DSL line (aka unbundled, naked or dry loop). According to users in our forums, Verizon is informing users that as of May 6, the company can no longer offer DSL service without attached local voice service. Fortunately, existing users appear to be grandfathered for as long as you remain connected. However, if you disconnect and reconnect, or ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   DSL   DirecTV   Karl Bode

    5. Sprint LTE Pricing Should Mirror Existing WiMax Pricing - As Company Retains Unlimited, Plans Mid-May Launch

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      Though there might not be an LTE network to run it on at launch, both official and unofficial sources this week indicate that Sprint has a significant number of LTE phones planned for launch this month. In discussing the launch of their first LTE device, the LG Viper, Sprint is confirming that there will be unlimited data options for Sprint customers. Of course Sprint CEO Dan Hesse confirmed as much last month when he stated ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   LTE   Sprint Nextel   Dan Hesse

    6. Frontier Says Verizon Network Integration Completed - $8.5 Billion Deal Completed, CEO Lauds 'Consistency'

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      Frontier today announced that the company has successfully completed the integration of all the Verizon DSL and landline networks acquired in an $8.5 billion deal announced in 2009. "Consistent processes and procedures help get new products and services to customers faster, enhance customer retention and market share, and improve the overall customer experience," insists Frontier CEO Maggie Wilderotter. The integration wasn't without problems, most notably Frontier suddenly making it very clear (in the ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Karl Bode   Frontier   Maggie Wilderotter

    7. Comcast Launches 'Xfinity Home' in Bay Area - About Half of Comcast Markets Now See Security & Home Services

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      ISPs like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon have long dreamed about getting into the smart home business, where nearly every service connected to the home (TV, Internet, Voice, Security, home networking) is provided by them. That may not work in an age where customers are looking for ways to save money -- not add new services and prices onto increasingly bloated bills. Still, the carriers continue to try -- and Comcast this week expanded their smart home ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   AT&T   Comcast   Karl Bode

    8. FreedomPop Unveils More Details on Free Wireless Data - 1 GB Free, 1 Cent per Each Additional MB

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      Late last year Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstr m announced he'd be launching a new wireless carrier in 2012 named FreedomPop that provides free wireless service. Zennstrom and company are being a little murky about the specific financials behind the service, aside from the fact there will be a base level of free connectivity. GigaOM's Kevin Fitchard got a little more detail out of FreedomPop VP of marketing Tony Miller, who says the company ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Niklas Zennstrom   Kevin Fitchard   Karl Bode

    9. Cox Will Begin Charging Overages - At Least According to Their Own Website

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      As we recently noted, Cox Communications appears to be the latest ISP to prepare for metered billing as they slowly deploy a new usage meter across markets. While they've made nothing official yet, a user offers up the screenshot below from the company's own usage tool that indicates Cox will ultimately begin billing users for passing their cap. Customers are informed that the allowance portion of the meter website "shows the amount of ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   AT&T   Cox Communications   Cox

    10. Google Voice on A&7T, Verizon, T-Mobile USA?

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      Sprint so far has been the only U.S. mobile service provider to fully integrate Google Voice allowing its users to use Google Voice as the default messaging system. Now Google Voice might be looking to do so on other networks as well. 

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      Mentions:   Google   AT&T   Sprint Nextel

    11. Comcast 360 Video Won't Count Against Your Cap

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      Users of Comcast's streaming video service, using Xbox 360, will not find streaming usage counted against their usage caps. 

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      Mentions:   Microsoft   Comcast   Karl Bode

    12. 3.7% Have Cut The Cord - 20% Have Reduced Cable Spending to Save Money

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      A new survey by Altman Vilandrie & Co. found that just 3.7 percent of the 1,000 Americans surveyed have "cut the cord" or cancelled their pay subscription TV service. However, the same study also found that 20% of those surveyed are now saving additional cable costs wherever they can as they consume more Internet video. For heavy TV watchers Internet video certainly is no replacement (in large part because legacy industries work tirelessly to ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Karl Bode

    13. Comcast, Verizon Defend Deal Before Congress - Consumer Advocates Worry About Anti-Competitive Impact

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      Comcast, Verizon Defend Deal Before Congress - Consumer Advocates Worry About Anti-Competitive Impact Comcast and Verizon went before Congress today to defend their co-branding arrangement, which includes the cable industry bundling Verizon LTE service with the cable industry's triple play service -- in addition to selling them $3.6 billion in new spectrum. Consumer advocates have worried that the deal will result in Comcast and the cable companies limiting competition in both fixed and wireless markets, using their combined power to crush smaller competitors ranging from more rural ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Comcast   Karl Bode   Frontier

    14. San Jose Returns to Offering Public Wi-Fi - $94,000 to Install, $22k Per Year to Maintain

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      With the prevalence of existing Wi-Fi hotspots and cellular data service, most public municipal Wi-Fi efforts didn't last very long, most communities instead now focusing on something that often isn't readily available: last mile fiber. Taking a page out of 2001's playbook, San Jose is once again planning to offer free Wi-Fi downtown. The city says the network will cost $94,000 to install, and roughly $22,000 per year to run ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Karl Bode

    15. Canada Allows Foreign Investment in 700 MHz Auctions - Imposes Rules on Upcoming Spectrum Auctions

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      Following in the footsteps of their neighbors to the South, the Canadian government is preparing to auction off the 700MHz spectrum freed from the migration to digital television. To help improve the country's competitive fortunes, Canadian regulators are making several major announcements in terms of the auction. According to the government announcement, they're putting caps on the volume of spectrum that can be acquired by the nation's incumbents, preventing anti-competitive spectrum squatting ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Karl Bode

    16. Verizon Passes 200 LTE Markets - Will Reach 400 Markets By Year End

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      Verizon Wireless will offer LTE services in 203 markets as of March 15, when the company says they'll launch service in seven new markets and expand existing service in 17 markets across the United States (you can find a complete breakdown here). Verizon this week also stated that their LTE network will cover 10 million more users than previously estimated by the end of the year, at which point the company now projects they ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Verizon Wireless   Karl Bode   Dow Jones

    17. Comcast: No Plans to Offer Netflix - No Interest in Being Netflix BFF, No Matter the Device

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      A report earlier this week suggested that Netflix is currently in talks with several cable companies about a partnership, but Comcast won't be among them. Speaking to Fierce Cable, Comcast says the company has "no plans to offer access to Netflix to our customers through our Xfinity TV service, no matter what device." As we noted last month Comcast has launched a streaming video service dubbed Streampix (available only to Comcast TV subscribers) that ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Comcast   HBO   Karl Bode

    18. iPad Mobile Hotspot Available on Verizon, Not AT&T - Though AT&T Insists They're Working on it

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      Verizon will immediately support the new hotspot functionality embedded in the new iPad while AT&T initially won't, despite both companies telling users on Twitter they won't support it. AT&T's customer care reps Tweet that the company isn't supporting the feature, but is working with Apple to enable the functionality soon. AT&T's giving customers three plans to choose from for the new Apple device: $15 for 250MB of ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   AT&T   Apple   Karl Bode

    19. Google Gets a TV Broadcast License - So They Can Offer IPTV Over 1 Gbps in Kansas City

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      Google's 1 Gbps residential fiber service is officially underway in Kansas City, with consumers expected to be up and running sometime in the second half of the year. Building on earlier rumors that Google was planning to add an IPTV service into the mix, Google applied for an FCC license back in December allowing them to run the antenna farm necessary to get into delivering television. The Missouri Public Service Commission has since granted ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Karl Bode   Gbps

    20. FCC Delays Dish LTE Waiver Decision - Will Likely Still Grant Waiver By End of Year

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      FCC Delays Dish LTE Waiver Decision - Will Likely Still Grant Waiver By End of Year The FCC stated on Friday they would be delaying their decision to grant Dish a necessary spectrum condition waiver, required for the company's planned LTE network. The FCC didn't cite reasons for the delay, but stated they would likely have a decision on the waiver by the end of the year. Dish Chair Charlie Egen recently stated they had roughly a 80% chance of success in getting the network built, a number they ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Karl Bode   Federal Communication Commission   LTE network

    21. Verizon's Network Neutrality Lawsuit Moves Forward

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      Verizon's Network Neutrality Lawsuit Moves Forward

      The push for any meaningful network neutrality consumer protections died last year in a flurry of partisan bickering, disinformation and often-ridiculous debate. While the FCC did manage to pass some vague rules governing network neutrality, the rules intentionally have numerous holes including a failure to cover wireless networks. The rules were based largely on recommendations made by Google and Verizon, who wanted to make sure the rules didn't impact revenues and gatekeeper control. Verizon ...

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      Mentions:   Google   Comcast   Karl Bode

    22. Hastings Downplays Netflix as Cable Competitor - Insists HBO Go is His Biggest Competitor

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      Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom conference in San Francisco this week, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings insisted he sees the services as more of an added option to your cable bundle than he sees it as a traditional cable alternative. Granted that's not something entirely in Hasting's control, gitraders entire cable and broadcast industry does everything in its power to ensure Netflix won't compete with cable by imposing punitive ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   HBO   Karl Bode   Reed Hastings

    23. Cablevision Says They Won't Raise Rates in 2012 - Though They're Cutting Back on Certain Promotions

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      For several years Cablevision wasn't really feeling the heat in their pricing battle with Verizon FiOS, but if their recently release fourth quarter earnings are any indication, that's starting to change. The company's fourth quarter profits dropped 47%, in large part to the earnings lost from spinning off AMC Networks. Cablevision lost 14,000 video customers, but added 20,000 high-speed data customers and 31,000 digital voice subscribers. Speaking on the ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Cablevision   Verizon FiOS   Karl Bode

    24. Comcast Still Not Interested in Usage-Based Pricing - Doesn't Want to Hurt Customer Satisfaction Rankings

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      Responding to Time Warner Cable's latest usage-based pricing experiment, Comcast executives say they still have no intention of experimenting with metered billing. "We have a very high customer satisfaction rating and we don't really want to rock the boat on that product," Comcast chief financial officer Michael Angelakis told attendees this week at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom conference in San Francisco. "I give them credit for trying different things," Angelakis said ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Time Warner Cable   Comcast   Karl Bode