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The Motley Fool February 10, 2004 Rex Moore |
Fighting the Cable Rate Hikes Get ready to pay even more for cable and satellite service.  |
InternetNews January 4, 2006 Roy Mark |
Verizon Cracks Maryland's Cable Market Verizon added another piece to its fiber-optic video market Tuesday when Howard County, MD, authorized the phone giant to begin offering its FiOS television service in the prosperous Washington, D.C., suburb.  |
InternetNews July 7, 2006 Roy Mark |
Verizon Sues Over IPTV Telecom giant sues county before it actually applies for a TV franchise; Google caught selling ads to online porno sites; Comcast changes customer data retention standards.  |
InternetNews August 2, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
Cox Weighs $7.9B Bid The cable and broadband company would go private while rumors swirl that Time Warner may acquire bankrupt Adelphia Cable.  |
The Motley Fool April 14, 2008 David Lee Smith |
The Case of Verizon vs. Time Warner Cable Verizon sues Time Warner Cable, claiming an ad misrepresents Verizon's fiber-optic services.  |
InternetNews July 21, 2005 Colin C. Haley |
Virginia is For Video Via Verizon The carrier is expanding its battle against cable operators with video-over-fiber offer.  |
BusinessWeek March 20, 2006 Mark Morrison |
Battling For The Eyes Of Texas Verizon's TV service is winning fans in a Fort Worth suburb. Will it sell nationwide?  |
BusinessWeek May 28, 2007 Roger O. Crockett |
A Cable Company People Don't Hate How Cox is keeping customers happy and stealing business from the phone giants.  |
InternetNews May 20, 2005 Colin C. Haley |
Cox Broadband Blacks Out An Internet backbone problem leaves Cox Communication's high-speed data customers disconnected.  |
The Motley Fool March 21, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Verizon Vies for Viewers The telecom company plans to pay CBS for content. Deals like this show that the pressure's on in the telecom and cable industries, which are having a serious smackdown in the same playing field. Meanwhile, investors should be on the watch.  |
InternetNews April 10, 2008 |
Verizon Battles Time Warner Cable Over Ads Telephone service provider Verizon Communications brought its battle for video customers to court on Wednesday, with a lawsuit accusing rival Time Warner Cable of false advertising.  |
The Motley Fool February 12, 2004 W.D. Crotty |
The Other Cable Story Cox Communications offers investors lots to ponder.  |
InternetNews October 25, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Cable in Talks With Sprint Nextel? Cox Communications, Comcast and Time Warner are reportedly weeks away from signing a wireless phone agreement with Nextel.  |
BusinessWeek May 2, 2005 Lowry & Ante |
Verizon's Video Vision Terry Denson, Verizon Communication's 39-year-old v.p. for video programming and content marketing, wants to turn the telecom giant into a media powerhouse. Here's his plan.  |
Home Theater May 24, 2010 Mark Fleischmann |
Cable Ops Hit on Fiber Claims BBB tells Time Warner and Cox to stop claiming fiber-optic networks.  |
BusinessWeek May 24, 2004 Grover & Lowry |
Satellite's Hot Pursuit Of Cable In the all-out war for subscribers, the satellite industry is clearly winning out over the cable industry.  |
InternetNews October 29, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
Verizon Mulls Local Line Sales Verizon Communications may divest millions of local phone lines as its fiber-to-the-premises and wireless businesses become more central to its long-term plans.  |
InternetNews October 27, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
Verizon Wants Motorola Gear Verizon has tapped Motorola for video network infrastructure and customer premises equipment related to the carrier's fiber-to-the-premises push, the companies announced today.  |
The Motley Fool July 2, 2004 Bill Mann |
We Don't Count So Good The SEC wants to know if telecom and cable companies have as many customers as they claim to have.  |
The Motley Fool October 28, 2004 Alyce Lomax |
Is Verizon's Call Waiting? Wireless revenues make up for lackluster landlines, but the industry at large is still on hold. The company's third-quarter net income was flat, at $1.8 billion, or $0.64 per diluted share.  |
InternetNews February 15, 2006 Roy Mark |
Senate Tunes in IPTV The Baby Bells converge on Capitol Hill today to sell a Senate panel on clearing the regulatory decks for a rollout of IPTV.  |
BusinessWeek May 24, 2004 Steve Rosenbush |
Verizon: Take That, Cable The nation's largest telecom provider is preparing to seek cable-TV franchises in parts of Texas and eight other states so that it can offer video in head-to-head competition with cable companies.  |
InternetNews April 14, 2008 |
FCC to Look Into Firms' Use of Customer Data Staff at the Federal Communications Commission are expected to recommend that it review rules on how phone and cable companies can use customer information as they try to take business from each other.  |
The Motley Fool August 24, 2004 Alyce Lomax |
Is VoIP Ready to Come Home? Word that AT&T will offer CallVantage through Best Buy's 600-plus stores could do a lot toward making voice over Internet Protocol a common household item.  |
The Motley Fool July 29, 2008 Dave Mock |
Not So Fast, Verizon Verizon's second quarter numbers show that it is not immune to the challenges of the current economy.  |
The Motley Fool May 1, 2008 David Lee Smith |
What's Next for Time Warner Cable? Once it leaves the nest, what will become of Time Warner Cable?  |
InternetNews April 2, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Cable Mulls Its Future Amid Wireless, Free Content A panel of cable execs outline the challenges facing their industry in a brave new world.  |
The Motley Fool August 30, 2007 David Lee Smith |
Comcast's Triple-Play Slide Growing concerns about competition from satellite TV providers, telephone providers, and the slowing pace of customer additions, has caused Comcast's share price to tumble since mid-July.  |
The Motley Fool December 22, 2011 Dan Radovsky |
Could Verizon's Deal Go Sideways Too? Verizon's major spectrum buy and wireless/cable reselling agreement is coming under scrutiny.  |
Home Theater April 18, 2008 Mark Fleischmann |
Verizon FiOS TV to Hit NYC Long-suffering New York City cable customers will soon have a new option when Verizon offers its FiOS fiber-optic TV delivery technology to all five of the city's boroughs.  |
The Motley Fool March 28, 2008 David Lee Smith |
Can You Hear Me Now, Cable Guys? Adding wireless capability could boost cable's competitive advantage.  |
InternetNews October 20, 2005 Roy Mark |
IPTV Challenges Regulatory Models Verizon and SBC want to run fiber-optic cable into homes delivering an IP network offering bundled television, telephone and high-speed Internet to consumers without having to meet the same regulatory obligations that cable companies do.  |
The Motley Fool January 29, 2008 Dave Mock |
Who Hears Verizon Now? The company's strong quarterly results didn't excite the market.  |
The Motley Fool October 26, 2007 David Lee Smith |
Time for a Comcast Vacation? While Comcast's results weren't really that bad, it may be time to give its shares a rest.  |
InternetNews December 23, 2005 Jim Wagner |
China's Broadband Growth Expected to Top U.S. By next year high-speed Internet line growth in China could surpass that in the U.S.  |
The Motley Fool August 22, 2007 David Lee Smith |
Cable Companies, Why Don't You Like Technology? While the triple play is luring customers, cable will still need wireless to compete.  |
InternetNews June 7, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Verizon Calls For Telecom Reform The rules should to be changed so telecoms can better compete with cable operators, says Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg.  |
The Motley Fool December 5, 2011 Dan Radovsky |
Verizon's Really Big Score The Verizon/SpectrumCo deal may be a defining moment in the changing of the telecom landscape.  |
The Motley Fool February 17, 2011 David Lee Smith |
Cord-Cutting Is for Babies Comcast will likely show us all that its future is brighter than ever.  |
The Motley Fool May 13, 2004 Phil Wohl |
Telecom vs. Cable In this era of technological innovation, which major communications industry will emerge victorious?  |
The Motley Fool August 2, 2006 Anders Bylund |
Verizon Has a Plan Beset on all sides by traditional and nontraditional competition, Verizon is betting heavily on an increasingly digital and wireless future -- as it should. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool December 29, 2006 David Lee Smith |
Can Cable Keep Rolling? There doesn't seem to be much standing in the way of the cable sector. Comcast, for instance, is just completing its first year as a triple play provider on a widespread basis. That's not a bad foundation to build upon in 2007.  |
BusinessWeek November 1, 2004 Catherine Yang |
Cable vs. Fiber In the long-running contest for the digital future, cable has been hitting home runs while the telecoms are just coming to bat. Now, the Bells are fighting back by offering video via phone lines.  |
The Motley Fool December 29, 2004 Alyce Lomax |
Cellular Cable Camaraderie? News agencies report that Time Warner's cable unit is in talks to make a deal with Sprint to provide wireless service. That's the last frontier in cable companies' increasing encroachment on what has been traditionally the telecom landscape.  |
Home Theater March 18, 2010 Mark Fleischmann |
Court Broadens Cable Program Access A federal appeals court has forbidden cable operators to maintain exclusive access to programming from networks they own.  |
The Motley Fool December 7, 2011 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
3 Reasons That Verizon Is No Threat to Netflix Verizon is looking to take on Netflix by offering a streaming service that doesn't require an existing cable or satellite television subscription. So far it's no big deal.  |
InternetNews October 4, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
Cox Tabs VoIP Markets The cable firm Cox Communications has released details of its residential and business Voice over IP rollouts.  |
Home Theater November 14, 2008 |
Times Are Hard? Raise Cable Rates! Home prices are plummeting, people are maxing out their credit cards, the stock market is in convulsions, health care costs are out of control, and the economy is rocketing into recession. America needs a morale booster. What better time to raise cable television rates?  |
InternetNews April 10, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Sprint, Cable Companies in For Wireless Cable giants and Sprint will test wireless quadruple-play services later this year.  |
InternetNews March 26, 2010 |
Verizon Puts the Brakes on FiOS Build-Out Verizon says it has completed its plans for expansion, and while not ruling out further deployments, the firm doesn't have any more expansion plans at the moment.  |