They have a hold on you

You can’t trust the communications jockeys I don’t care if it’s Verizon or Comcast or AT&T or Sprint or who cares else, the people that manipulate our limited and restricted access to communications...

Cable Companies Lose 500,000 Subscribers in 3 Months

Cable Companies Losing Viewers Quickly Comcast, Time Warner, Cablevision, and Charter have lost a combined total of 518,000 subscribers in Q3 2010. Actually, Q2 was even worse: over 700,000 subscribers lost. So,...

On becoming a Luddite

I was a pioneer in the computer industry. I operated an IBM 360 series machine. I published one of the first computer magazines, Infosystems. I started my own company on an Apple Plus machine, if you can believe...

Made in America: Comcast is an unworthy business

They ignore you. They charge too much. They have lousy service. Who in the heck is in charge of these people?  I wanted to give them the hook, but they own my wife. She refuses to change her email address, so...

Net Neutrality At Stake: FCC Sanctions On Comcast Overturned

Net Neutrality Threatened?Federal appeals court ruled that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was not right to accuse and sanction Comcast Corp. for slowing down traffic on its network to impede peer-to-peer file sharing services in 2008. Comcast was ordered to...

Dish Network-DirecTV Lawsuit Claims Both Used False Advertising

Dish Network and DirecTV are suing each other in U.S. District Court for making similar commercials. Last month, DirecTV sued Dish Network for false advertising in its series of Why Pay More? ads. DirecTV alleges...

Comcast Name Change: New Name For Comcast - Xfinity

Comcast has changed its name. The new name for Comcast is Xfinity. Comcast, a Philadelphia based cable giant that provides TV, Internet, and telephone or VOIP services to millions of Americans has often been the...

Comcast Launches Web TV Service: Fancast Xfinity TV Service

Comcast has launched their new web TV service called Fancast Xfinity TV that allows their high speed internet subscribers to watch cable TV shows online from 27 networks such as Cinemax and HBO. Although the web TV...

Comcast Set to Buy NBC Universal

Comcast is set to buy NBC Universal in a deal that is expected to close on Thursday. There were rumors in late September that this may happen, but yesterday GE (who owns NBC) made a move to buy Vivendi's share of...

Of Tolls and Rivers Chains –The New Robber Barons

For a number of centuries, roughly 800 AD to 1800 AD, feudal lords with land along the Rhine River in Germany, collected tolls from passing cargo ships. In an effective effort to back this control, large iron chains were laid across the river and raised high enough to block...

Telecoms oppose Net neutrality rules for stimulus money

" Representatives from Comcast, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon were in agreement at Thursday's conference, however, that more Net neutrality regulation would do more harm than good. "I still don't know that there's a problem out there that anyone is citing that compels...

Comcast shows resilience to economic downturn

"Comcast shows resilience to economic downturn""In addition to the phone companies, so far it looks like cable operators are also in good shape to weather the current economic downturn. On Thursday Comcast, the largest cable operator in the U.S., reported solid earnings for...

The Battle for Net Neutrality: Comcast throws army of lawyers at the problem

This is a classic battle between giant corporate interests vs. the rest of us.  If you value the Internet and don't want it to turn into the kind of trash you see on TV then please do what you can to support...

Comcast sets bandwidth limit

Uh oh. We all knew that this was coming: Comcast has finally decided to limit their residential customers to 250 GB/month. Over the past year, there have been rumours about the ISP bandwidth caps and its effect on users and the Internet's development as a collaboration, media...

Historic Victory for Net Neutrality

It's nice to report some good news once in a while.  Congratulations to everyone who made this win possible.  The little guys have to work hard to make gain like this."Comcast tried to stop it. Telecom-funded politicians tried to discourage it. Big Media tried to...

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