Today Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Media announced a huge spectrum sale to Verizon Wireless to the tune of $3.6 billion. It appears to be a good deal for all of the companies involved, but what will it mean for customers? On the Verizon side, this sale means that the wireless carrier will [...]
It’s been a long time coming, but you can finally watch Live TV on your iPad. No longer do you need to by a small TV to keep in each of your spare rooms and under the kitchen counter. Instead, open up your TV app for the iPad and you have a live TV experience [...]
How much do you pay each month to get online? Odds are you’re paying upwards of $100 for cable phone and Internet service. Even if you break it out by service, getting online with a high-speed connection is expensive. This monthly expense puts the cost of a basic internet connection out of the price range [...]
The current industry trend is to move towards tiered data plans, but the scary news is this isn’t limited to our smartphones and mobile hotspots. No, it’s also aimed at restricting our in home use from services like Comcast. Data caps may seem quite high when you are looking at them in the store, and [...]
We had a pretty severe storm blow through last night about an hour before our performance at Wayside Theatre. It knocked the power out for a few seconds and then it surged back on. We have a drill for this sort of thing when it happens about how we bring our systems back on line [...]
According to the Comcast blog, the big cable cabal is getting ready to bring in home streaming to Tablets if you’re a part of the Xfinity clan. Comcast is also getting ready to roll out over 3000 hours of On Demand video that can be watched anywhere and anytime as well. Of course you’ve got [...]
I ran across the Clear booth at Intel Developers Forum last week and learned a bit about the WiMax network’s plans for San Francisco. WiMax is one of those technologies that’s been ‘coming soon’ for way too long. Coverage is still sparse, even in some communities that have had it for a while, but word [...]
Comcast is planning to launch trials of its TV Anywhere service in 30 to 60 days. It will be interesting to see how this goes. Essentially TV Anywhere allows Comcast subscribers to watch content they already subscribe to online. The venture is a partnership with Time Warner. According to a report in this ZDNet article, [...]
Comcast is introducing an iPhone application that will allow customers to plan what they’re going to watch on TV, forward calls from their VOIP lines and manage voicemail. I got really excited when I saw that Comcast was going to have an iPhone application because I wrongly assumed that it would allow subscribers to access [...]
Comcast is getting ready to roll out Wireless Broadband as yet another product it has to sell. Initially using Sprint and Clearwire’s WiMAX network, the service will be called High-Speed 2go and will be offered in cities where Comcast has its cable service already established. It will be a slow roll out (and I’m guessing [...]
When Comcast announced that it was going to begin capping users bandwidth usage at 250GB per month there were lots of protests about the cap itself and also because there was no way (without third party utilities) for users to monitor their usage.
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