Update – May 13, 2008 – Mediacom officially announced the new broadband tier described in the original May 9th post described below. Mediacom announced on their quarterly earnings conference call that they will up their maximum broadband tier to 20…
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Mediacom and Insight to Launch Online TV Guide Listings
Mediacom and Insight will launch Gemstar/TV Guide’s Listing2Go online television guide application on their respective portal sites. The Listings2Go application is a part of TV Guide’s My TV Guide platform can be customized to present users with programming information for…
Minnesota Awards Almost $100M in Broadband Grants
The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development has awarded 61 grants in the sixth year of its Border-to-Border Broadband Development Grant program. The grants total $99,592,711. This funding will be supported by $152,259,620 in private and local funds for…
LRG: FWA Continues to Displace All Others for Broadband Growth
Fixed wireless access (FWA) has displaced cable as the driver of broadband growth, according to subscriber totals for the third quarter of the year amassed by Leichtman Research Group. The market research firm found that the top cable companies gained…
Charter Leans into High Splits, CBRS Small Cells for Network Evolution
Key Charter near-term investment areas include upgrading the company’s HFC/DOCSIS infrastructure to support a high-split approach and deploying small cells that use spectrum in the CBRS band to support the company’s mobile offering, said Charter Chief Financial Officer Jessica Fischer…
LRG Finds Slower Broadband Subscriber Growth with Fixed Wireless a Bright Spot
The largest cable, telco and fixed wireless providers netted about 1.065 million new broadband Internet subscribers during the first quarter of the year. Broadband subscriber growth was down compared to the 1.12 million netted during the first quarter of 2021,…
White House: We Persuaded 20 Providers to Offer Faster and/or Lower-Cost ACP Services
The White House said today that the administration has persuaded 20 providers to lower their broadband costs and/or increase broadband speeds with the goal of making internet service more affordable for “millions of American families” that qualify for the Affordable…
Cox to Offer Symmetrical 2 Gbps Service
Cox Communications is the latest service provider to announce symmetrical 2 Gbps service. Although there have been numerous symmetrical 2 Gbps announcements from telecom companies with fiber broadband infrastructure, there have been fewer announcements from the cable companies because it…
TDS Joins Cable’s Faster Speed Parade
Continuing the trend of cable companies providing free speed upgrades in order to match competitors’ offerings, TDS Telecommunications is increasing download speeds to 18,000 subscribers in St. George, UT. Although best known as a telecom company, TDS operates cable HFC/DOCSIS…
Breezeline Has a Free 100 Mbps Offer for ACP Participants
Breezeline has introduced the Internet Assist Plus service, which offers 100 Mbps service to subscribers who are eligible for the FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). Providers participating in the ACP receive $30 a month from the fund per subscriber, with…
Google Fiber Plans to Expand Iowa Reach into Des Moines
Google Fiber said it is gearing up to start construction into the Iowa capital of Des Moines later this year. “We’re currently in the planning stages, working with the City of Des Moines on the next steps to get started…
