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Cable tv publication Multichannel News reports that gunshot damage to Comcast's fiber-optic main service line took down cable service for some 7,500 customers in Palm Beach county, Florida.
Service disruptions lasted from New Year's Eve until early on January 3. Some 20 separate nodes were affected.
It wasn't an overly ticked-off customer (as if) but drunken revelers. Reportedly, [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on January 9th, 2007 with no comments.
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Ever since Comcast has been offering their Comcast Digital Voice service, they've been marketing the fact that this service travels over Comcast connections and not the public Internet. As shown above, there's this eMTA (embedded Multimedia Terminal Adapter) that the installer comes to your home and sets up - after which your calls travel [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on December 6th, 2006 with no comments.
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And so, as Rich Tehrani reports, it played out in a Texas courtroom yesterday when Comcast successfully defended itself against a $2.2 billion lawsuit filed by Caritas Techologies.
Dave Farber, who is often cited as the "grandfather of the Internet," holds a series of VoIP-related patents. That was, and is, not in dispute.
What was in [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on November 15th, 2006 with no comments.
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WangScript has long had a reputation as a key script for Internet Relay Chat.
So it stands to reason that its author "Wang" is certainly no tech newbie.
Just today, Slash-dotter kdawson made a post in which fellow Slash-dotter jehnx links to a two-month-old Wang post about what Wang calls lies that Comcast told his wife about [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on October 2nd, 2006 with no comments.
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In his post Is ESPN committing reverse Net Neutrality, ZDNet colleague George Ou looks at the case I've referred to in which ESPN360-delivered streaming video of each World Cup match is available only to subscribers of certain broadband providers- but not to those subscribers who access the Internet through Comcast, Cablevision, AT&T, and [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on June 21st, 2006 with no comments.
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Reuters reports that U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) will introduce a "compromise" Net Neutrality bill this week that would also create a complaint process through the FCC if consumers believe their access rights to Internet content were violated . The FCC would be empowered to hear complaints and assess penaltiesand the agency would [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on June 18th, 2006 with no comments.
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CBS's new video-on-demand deal with Comcast and General Motors ushers in a new, compelling concept in video on demand: digital cable subscribers can receive prime time TV shows for free.
Starting today, cable viewers in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago and Detroit will be able to watch “Survivor Finale” and “Survivor Reunion” at no charge because General Motors will be the sole sponsor.
The shows, which will include commercials, will appear on video on demand a day after they air over broadcast TV, and run until August 31.
Earlier this year, CBS offered such prime time shows as “Amazing Race” and “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” through Comcast's VOD for 99 cents each.
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Written by VoIP & Gadgets Blog on May 15th, 2006 with no comments.
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As I have already noted in a previous post, I have received a Prospectus for the sale of Vonage stock as part of its Vonage Share Customer Directed Program. The Prospectus is dated May 5. I have read the Prospectus, and have noted what Vonage says about its competitors. Since this information [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on May 8th, 2006 with no comments.
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For a year now, I have been making the points in this space that: SprintNextel really needs a self-operated VoIP component to round out its service bundle, and;As a company without a true multi-service bundle, Vonage will find it increasingly difficult to compete against bundled cable and telecom packages, as well as multiple service offerings [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on April 12th, 2006 with no comments.
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Earlier this week, Comcast announced that beginning this spring, they would offer their broadband, digital video and Comcast Digital Voice VoIP package via "Connection Centers" in some 500 Wal-Marts.My first reaction was a hearty "huh?" I thought this after flashing briefly on the demographics of Wal-Mart shoppers and VoIP users.From my unempirical and admittedly stereotypicalobservation, [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on April 12th, 2006 with no comments.
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As my colleague Anne Broache notes, Congressional Democrats are angry about a proposal endorsed by Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) that would not give the FCC authority to enforce net neutrality regulations its adherents believe is necessary to ensure an open Internet.An open Internet free of the preferential treatment, overt or hidden fees, and potential technological [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on March 30th, 2006 with no comments.
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The quote cannot be verified, but it does appear on a first-person account written on the independent Vonage Forum by a Member who identifies himself as UMP25.Seems as though UMP25 was having some technical problems with his Comcast service, and called for a tech to come out to his home to fix things. Originally, UMP25 [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on March 15th, 2006 with no comments.
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On the independent, non-Vonage affiliated Vonage Forum, the controversy first introduced in the Comcast vs. Vonage thread is raging on, seemingly unabated.Not only is that thread up to more than 22,000 page views and 250 posts, but some Vonage Forum Members have been running test routines to quantify whether or not there is a slowdown [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on March 9th, 2006 with no comments.
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In recent hours, Slashdot users have been commenting a lot on yesterday's post in which I referred to an atmosphere of distrust some Vonage users have been directing toward Comcast. I first noticed this in a Vonage Forum thread I linked to. That thread, "Comcast vs. Vonage," has just passed 10,000 page views.Now, there's a [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on March 2nd, 2006 with no comments.
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Over the last couple of years, when I've wanted to take the temperature of the Vonage user community, I've often stopped at the Vonage Forum. This is a privately run enterprise, totally independent of Vonage. More than 23,000 people have joined the Forum since it was officially launched three years ago this month.Anyhow, I have [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on March 1st, 2006 with no comments.
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As the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee held hearings about net neutrality yesterday, it's worthy to note that cable broadband service providers have been strangely noncommittal about their feelings on the issue.Net neutrality is the principle that high-speed Internet service providers should not charge- and not be allowed to charge - fees to high-bandwidth services to [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on February 7th, 2006 with no comments.
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At the same time big telecom broadband service providers such as AT&T (formerly SBC) and BellSouth are making all sorts of noise about charging content creators of rich content extra for network carriage, the cable companies haven't been that vocal.Not by a long shot.Today, cable industry trade paper Multichannel News explores the issue, commonly referred [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on January 15th, 2006 with no comments.
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That's digitalMax. No, he's not selling pills via some jive Internet pharmacy (although the way his eyes are popping out makes you wonder).No, digitalMax is Cox Cable's mascot for bundled services that include the Optimum Voice VoIP product. "It's the multivitamin of digital. And a lot easier to swallow," he says.If you don't believe me [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on January 15th, 2006 with no comments.
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