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Tag: Comcast

Overly Attached Comcast Won’t Let You Go

P.M. Roanhouse2014-07-142014-07-14
Culture / Internet Culture / Internet Services

At Comcast, you are not just an undervalued customer – you are also an indenture servant, and you will answer any question they have if you try to leave them. Ryan Block, former editor-in-chief of AOL’s Engadget before he co-founded the community site GDGT, posted online his recorded voice call with Comcast trying to explain to them they wanted to […]

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Netflix tells on bully Comcast, Comcast cries Netflix is lying

P.M. Roanhouse2014-04-252014-04-25
Culture / Internet Services

Ken Florance, the vice president of content delivery at Netflix, In a Netflix blog post has basically said Netflix has paid a protection fee to Comcast. Netflix did this to end the sudden and dramatic decline to the video service quality its customers started to receive if they were Comcast broadband subscribers. In the end this is something they state must end, in what […]

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Open Internet Rules & Network Neutrality take serious blow as courts side with Verizon in lawsuit against FCC

P.M. Roanhouse2014-01-15
Culture / Internet Services / Technology Policy

In the Washington DC federal appeals court on Tuesday, Verizon won a very troubling decision. It is a decision that if not fought could lead to troubling ideas of “toll road” internet prices. Tiers of internet that block certain services like cable packages block certain channels in different cable packages. Independent web services and websites like Netflix, Facebook, Skype, or […]

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Former telecom lobbyist, now FCC Chairman, proves Big Telecom wants toll lanes on internet to block competitive services and innovation.

P.M. Roanhouse2013-12-052014-03-13
Culture / Internet Culture / Technology / The Future

This could be death to an all bits are equal internet, or as it is commonly called Network Neutrality. The newly anointed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler; a former lobbyist for the cable and wireless industries, announced this week that it would be OK for Internet service providers to charge Netflix and other companies for a faster lane to […]

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