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Time Warner Cable CEO says it could follow to Aereo's business model

Time Warner Cable CEO says it could follow to Aereo
  • Posted May 3, 2013, 10:22 AM by Dave LeClair | Filed in Industry News
  • Aero seems to be making waves in the cable industry. The company streams free over-the-air channels to Internet devices for a small fee, and this has broadcasters such as CBS threatening legal action against it. A small company like Aereo…

Time Warner says there is no demand for residential gigabit Internet

Time Warner says there is no demand for residential gigabit Internet
  • Posted February 27, 2013, 4:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Google made headlines last summer when they powered up their first self-built gigabit Internet service available exclusively to lucky Kansas City residents. While enthusiasts around the country remain envious of the 1,000 Mbps download and upload speeds that locals have…

Controversial 'six-strikes' copyright alert system launches in US

Controversial
  • Posted February 25, 2013, 3:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, The Web Breaking News With Video
  • The "six-strike" warning system that aims to curb illegal downloads in the U.S. is set to go live today after missing its scheduled launch in November. AT&T, Cablevision, Verizon, Time Warner Cable, and Comcast are all on board with the…

Former FCC chair: ISP data caps are about monetization, not network congestion

Former FCC chair: ISP data caps are about monetization, not network congestion
  • Posted January 21, 2013, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Industry News
  • Data caps, also known as broadband caps and bandwidth caps, have long been a controversial method of managing network congestion by ISPs -- or has it? While numerous ISPs have explained away the necessity of bandwidth caps to maintain quality…

TWC accuses Netflix of bullying ISPs and discriminating against users

TWC accuses Netflix of bullying ISPs and discriminating against users
  • Posted January 18, 2013, 8:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web
  • Time Warner Cable has accused Netflix of discriminating against users who access the video streaming service through a TWC Internet connection. Last week, Netflix started providing streams in Super HD and 3D qualities, which delivers better-looking video at the expense…

Time Warner, Roku partnership turns set-top box into cable box

Time Warner, Roku partnership turns set-top box into cable box
  • Posted January 7, 2013, 10:47 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Time Warner Cable and Roku have announced plans to bring the cable provider’s television app to the streaming set-top box later this quarter. The TWC TV app allows subscribers to stream more than 300 channels of live programming and is…

ISPs ask city for deal matching Google Fiber's special treatment

ISPs ask city for deal matching Google Fiber
  • Posted October 2, 2012, 5:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • Envious communications companies are requesting parity deals from Kansas City's local government -- deals which match the special treatment Google received while deploying its city-wide gigabit fiber service. Google Fiber went live about two months ago for both KC and KCMO,…

US cable companies to enter cloud-gaming business

US cable companies to enter cloud-gaming business
  • Posted September 25, 2012, 3:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Gaming, Industry News
  • US cable providers are reportedly gearing up to start testing their own cloud-gaming services, in a move that ultimately aims to make dedicated gaming hardware a thing of the past. Citing "people with knowledge of the matter," Bloomberg reports that…

Time Warner Cable investing $25M to expand fiber network in NYC

Time Warner Cable investing $25M to expand fiber network in NYC
  • Posted August 28, 2012, 6:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Time Warner Cable announced plans to invest $25 million to expand their fiber network to business customers in New York City. The deal will see networks constructed in Brooklyn as well as the Financial and Flatiron districts, according to a…

Justice Department approves Verizon's $3.9 billion spectrum deal

Justice Department approves Verizon
  • Posted August 17, 2012, 4:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Verizon Wireless is one step closer to finalizing a deal to purchase up to $3.9 billion worth of wireless spectrum from Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Cox Communications and Bright House Networks. The US Justice Department gave the deal its stamp…

Five US cable providers join forces to offer 50,000+ wireless hotspots

Five US cable providers join forces to offer 50,000+ wireless hotspots
  • Posted May 21, 2012, 10:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Industry News
  • Five cable companies have announced a joint effort to provide wireless Internet hotspots across the US. Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable have agreed to let their high-speed Internet subscribers access each other's Wi-Fi networks.…

National broadband outage caused by router bug

National broadband outage caused by router bug
  • Posted November 7, 2011, 6:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
  • A vast number of Time Warner Cable customers arose from bed this Monday morning to discover that their Internet connections were down. Other ISPs have been affected as well, but TWC customers are clearly the loudest.

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