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MSNBC
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Consumer satisfaction with cable and satellite TV providers is at its highest since ratings began, but the industry ranked second to last among 18, and the nation's largest cable operator pulled its lowest rating ever in a widely watched annual customer s..
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MSNBC
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You are used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home computer goes over its Internet allowance?
Time Warner Cable Inc. customers — and, later, others — may have to, if the company's t..
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BBC News
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Work has begun to repair two damaged internet cables in the Mediterranean Sea that were severed last week.
Flag Telecom, one of the firms responsible for the cables, says it will take about a week to be fixed.
The break in cables has caused disrupti..
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BusinessWeek
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Reduced forecasts by the top cable provider may be a sign of interference ahead for a broad range of communications providers
At the UBS Global Media & Communications Conference on Dec. 5, an analyst asked Michael Angelakis, Comcast's (CMCSA) new co-ch..
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BBC News
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Work has begun on the first undersea telecommunications cable linking the US with China, Chinese press reports say.
The fibre-optic cable is designed to meet booming internet traffic between the regions, with 60 times more capacity than existing cables..
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BBC News
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Cable & Wireless has served an injunction against a former executive following the theft of a 100,000 customer database, the BBC has learned.
The injunction orders Seemab Zafar to hand over any part of the database of former subsidiary Bulldog, includi..
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Los Angeles Times
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AT&T Inc. said it would spend as much as $6.5 billion over five years on its U-verse television service, a $1.4-billion increase from its previous estimate, as it challenges cable TV providers.
The additional spending will help AT&T add high-definition..
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Los Angeles Times
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In a big win for a little Wi-Fi start-up called Fon, Time Warner Cable Inc. will let its residential broadband customers turn their connections into public wireless hot spots, a practice shunned by most U.S. Internet service providers.
For Fon, which h..
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The Register
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Google's TV chief has admitted the internet is crap for TV. Speaking to the Cable Europe Congress in Amsterdam, Vincent Dureau told attendees: "The web infrastructure, and even Google's [infrastructure]...doesn't scale. It's not going to offer the qual..
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Wired
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It was the ultimate challenge for any lifelong TV watcher. Wired News asked me to cut the coax cable snaking into my HD-ready television, and for 30 days rely solely on legally available internet content to satisfy the video entertainment needs of my fami..
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