Enlarge / Nielsen’s breakdown of TV viewing in July 2022. reader comments 144 with 95 posters participating Share this story A new report from market measurement firm Nielsen says that for the first time, TV viewers watched more on streaming services like Netflix and Disney+ than they did on cable TV, making streaming the most ..
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Enlarge / A Charter Spectrum service truck in McKinney, Texas, on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. reader comments 94 with 73 posters participating Share this story It’s no surprise that cable companies charge lower prices for broadband when they face competition from fiber-to-the-home services. But an article yesterday by Stop the Cap provides a good example ..
Enlarge / Picture of a Comcast router/modem gateway from the company’s website. reader comments 95 with 77 posters participating Share this story Comcast today offered the latest hint of a future in which its cable customers won’t be limited to 35Mbps upload speeds. Announcing a recent lab test, Comcast said its research team “deliver[ed] upstream ..
reader comments 47 with 38 posters participating Share this story Cox has been making it extremely difficult or impossible for some customers to stick with their current Internet speeds despite promising that it won’t force users onto plans with slower uploads. As we wrote two weeks ago, Cox informed customers with 300Mbps download and 30Mbps ..
reader comments 161 with 120 posters participating Share this story Mediacom, a cable company with about 1.4 million Internet customers across 22 states, is telling heavy uploaders to reduce their data usage—even when those users are well below their monthly data caps. Mediacom’s fastest Internet plan offers gigabit download speeds and 50Mbps upload speeds with ..
reader comments 97 with 74 posters participating Share this story Comcast’s cable Internet still has a heavy emphasis on download speeds, as even its gigabit-download service only comes with 35Mbps uploads. But that may not be the case forever, as today Comcast announced a “technical milestone” that can deliver gigabit-plus download and upload speeds over ..
Getty Images | DonNichols reader comments 130 with 90 posters participating Share this story Charter Communications is raising the “Broadcast TV” fee it imposes on cable plans from $13.50 to $16.45 a month starting in August, Stop the Cap reported. Charter says the Broadcast TV fee covers the amount it pays broadcast television stations (e.g. ..
reader comments 70 with 52 posters participating Share this story Cox Communications is lowering Internet upload speeds in entire neighborhoods to stop what it considers “excessive usage,” in a decision that punishes both heavy Internet users and their neighbors. Cox, a cable company with about 5.2 million broadband customers in the United States, has been ..
The cable industry takes a subtle approach to anti-Title II advertising. reader comments 99 with 59 posters participating Share this story It’s 2020, and a coronavirus pandemic has underscored how crucial broadband service is to the lives of Americans for work, entertainment, and school. Internet service is a necessity, and yet it isn’t regulated as ..
Enlarge / Would you pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for cable if your restaurant looked like this right now? reader comments 104 with 74 posters participating Share this story Everyone is stuck at home, which you would think would mean a lot more TV watching, not less. And up to a point, that’s true: ..