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Comcast Expands VOD in Northwest Markets
8/17/10 at 10:20 AM by Telecompetitor
BEAVERTON, Ore., Aug. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Comcast announced today that it is expanding the number of movie choices offered On Demand more than 450% by adding nearly 9,000 movie titles. This brings more than 11,000 total movie choices to Oregon and SW Washington customers monthly, featuring thousands of movies from every genre including comedy, action, drama, independent, classics and documentaries ...
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Rural Broadband Consolidation Continues, With Sunflower Broadband Acquisition
8/4/10 at 12:54 PM by Andrew Burger
West Point, Georgia-based triple play provider Knology announced today it will acquire Sunflower Broadband, which provides voice, video and data services to residential and business customers in Lawrence and Douglas County, Kansas, for $165 million in cash.
Expected to close in 4Q ...
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Motorola Targets Rural Cable with Hosted Switched Digital Video
7/26/10 at 3:44 PM by Bernie Arnason
An inherent advantage of IPTV systems may be coming to a rural cable system near you. Motorola announced today a hosted solution for switched digital video platforms at the Independent Show.
Switched digital video (SDV) is a bandwidth saving solution, ...
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Comcast Lights up Several East Coast Markets With WiMAX High-Speed 2go
7/13/10 at 7:39 PM by Joan Engebretson
It's about to get real interesting on the east coast. Although cable companies have outpaced telcos in their ability to sell triple play service packages, traditionally telcos have had one thing the cable companies don’t—a wireless service offering. That’s changing fast though, with Comcast announcing this week it has ...
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Suddenlink to Deploy TiVo Premiere Set-Top Boxes in Key Markets
7/8/10 at 9:48 AM by Telecompetitor
SAINT LOUIS, MO and ALVISO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/08/2010 -- Suddenlink ...
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Time Warner Cable Offers Mobile Broadband Hotspot
7/7/10 at 10:13 AM by Andrew Burger
Time Warner Cable introduced IntelliGo, a dual mode 3G/4G mobile hotspot device. Available on the Time Warner Cable 4G network, Road Runner Mobile, IntelliGo enables simultaneous mobile Internet connectivity for up to five Wi-Fi devices via ...
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Whole Home DVR Train Picks Up More Steam, Comcast Now On Board
7/1/10 at 4:32 PM by Bernie Arnason
We’ve been tracking the whole home DVR movement for a while now. Just in the past six months, we’ve seen significant activity from cable companies with this value add service. That’s not great news for AT&T, who has ...
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Mediacom Rolls Whole Home DVR
6/18/10 at 11:42 AM by Bernie Arnason
The move to whole home DVR continues with cable MSO Mediacom the latest video service provider to launch the service. Mediacom announced the competitive feature will initially be launched in its Illinois markets, including “more than 200 Illinois communities located between Rock Island ...
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Cablevision Coming to Rural America Through Bresnan Acquisition
6/14/10 at 8:24 AM by Bernie Arnason
Service providers who currently compete with Bresnan Communications should take note -- Cablevision is coming. The Bethpage, New York based cable company announced the purchase of Bresnan Communications in a transaction valued at $1.36 billion. Bresnan is ...
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Rural Cable Provider Turns to Echostar’s ViP-TV for IP Video
6/2/10 at 8:43 AM by Telecompetitor
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – June 1, 2010 – EchoStar Satellite Services L.L.C., a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), announced today an agreement to deliver its ViP-TV™ service to Duncan Cable TV in Vermont. With a ViP-TV-connected headend, Duncan Cable will be able to deliver more than 45 popular high definition TV channels.
Duncan Cable provides video services to more than 2,800 ...
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