Save the Internet Blog:
This week brings the latest round of filings in the court case involving the FCC's 2008 order punishing cable giant Comcast for interfering with legal peer-to-peer traffic. In its order, the agency found that Comcast's blocking violated federal law and did not constitute reasonable network management practices. (Read More)
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Free Press and SavetheInternet.com on Tuesday released a brief exposing the many myths that phone and cable companies are spreading about Net Neutrality. (Read More)
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The industry frenzy has begun. Big phone and cable companies are frantically grasping at anything they can lob against Net Neutrality since the FCC’s announcement Monday that it would expand rules to protect the principle. (Read More)
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If the FCC were to write a book using the cable and phone industry’s comments about the national broadband plan, they could title it Stupid Things They Said to Get Their Way and Control the Internet. (Read More)
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If the FCC were to write a book using the cable and phone industry’s comments about the national broadband plan, they could title it Stupid Things They Said to Get Their Way and Control the Internet. Entry No. 1 comes from cable giant Comcast, which suggested that the FCC hold “open meetings” across the country that don’t i (Read More)
Submitted by J Deragon:
Comcast, perhaps the most aggressive opponent of file-sharing after the RIAA, has seen the light. After testing P4P, an experimental file-sharing architecture that reduces network costs and bandwidth usage, the company is closer to embracing file sharing on its own network."We are active members of [the P4P working group,] (Read More)
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It’s official. The Federal Communications Commission published its order today lowering the hammer on Comcast for derailing Internet users’ Web access and then pretending that the cable giant was doing nothing wrong. The order, approved by a bipartisan FCC majority at the beginning of the month, demands that Com (Read More)
Submitted by J Deragon:
The business plan works like this: Saysme.tv offers a service over the Internet that streamlines the submission process for homemade television advertising and offers cheap slices of cable-TV time — perhaps as little as $6 for a 25-second spot, assuming you are O.K. with appearing on CNN Headline News sometime next week in (Read More)
Submitted by J Deragon:
Since thursday (aug 14th) I was experiencing problems with my Comcast high speed Internet Service, I called customer service and set an appointment for today (Sat 16th) to see if a technician could fix my internet service problems. So far nothing different for the regular end user experience. (Read More)
Submitted by J Deragon:
The vision Comcast has for the future of TV isn’t locked up somewhere inside its brand-new, glass-encased headquarters in downtown Philadelphia. The rough cut of the cable company’s ideas are already playing out on the Internet, at Fancast.com. (Read More)
Submitted by J Deragon:
The cable television provider continues its dot-com shopping ways, snapping up DailyCandy.com in a deal reportedly worth $125 million.It's the company's latest purchase, just weeks after buying the Movies.com domain from Disney (NYSE: DIS). Other Comcast online buys include video-sharing site Ziddio and ticket seller Fandan (Read More)
Submitted by J Deragon:
Wow. The shopping email newsletter company Daily Candy has been acquired by Comcast for $125 million. Daily Candy boasts 2.5 million subscribers, many of them young women with discretionary income. Its locally-focused newsletters are segmented by 12 cities with both local and national advertisers. Comcast says it will ag (Read More)
Submitted by J Deragon:
Web surfers may want to pause before cheering, though, as some are warning that the move could lead the way to Internet metering–under which people would be charged based on their usage levels instead of the traditional flat rate. (Read More)
: I read somewhere recently that the US is about 16/17th in the league table of internet speed and reliability. Comcast is a major player in the US, so much take much of the blame for this lacklustre national performance.