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Entries from App-Rising tagged with 'comcast'

May 13, 2008 10:18 AM

Competition Healthy in Wireless Broadband?

Much ado was made when the recent wireless spectrum options wrapped up and the two biggest winners were AT&T; and Verizon. Pundits lamented over the fact the two biggest companies got the two biggest chunks of spectrum as they feared...

March 31, 2008 9:28 AM

Comcast's Two-Pronged P2P Response

Comcast has recently come out with an aggressive push back against accusations of any misconduct in its treatment of P2P traffic on its network. First, the good news. They've announced a new relationship with BitTorrent through which they claim to...

March 25, 2008 9:18 AM

Competition Works! Sort Of...

There are many in the telecom world who believe the ultimate answer to all things broadband is competition. If you can just get that dynamo of capitalism churning then you'll create incentives through competition to spur investment and innovation. I've...

February 28, 2008 12:37 PM

Chickens Coming Home to Roost for Comcast

The maelstrom surrounding Comcast's decision to interfere with P2P traffic on its network gained a new front today as law firm Gilbert Randolph LLP filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Dr. Sanford Sidner and all the citizens of...

February 15, 2008 8:25 AM

Comcast's Metered Highway Meets Vuze's Muddy Racetrack

Earlier this week Comcast submitted comments to the FCC defending their right to slow down traffic on its network. The analogy they used to describe how they manage P2P traffic was that of an on-ramp to a busy highway that...

February 8, 2008 12:09 PM

Cable's Big Bandwidth Problem

Everyone knows that cable companies have some problems with their broadband service. Theirs is a shared network where one neighbor can have dramatically negative impacts on another's service. There's the Comcast/Bittorrent brouhaha over the cable giant blocking or degrading sometimes-legal...

January 16, 2008 8:37 AM

Reporting From the Trenches in the Battle Over the Future of PEG

I had the great fortune to chat with Lynn Meikle of Meridian Township, Michigan on Monday. You may have heard of Meridian recently as last Friday they made news by filing suit against Comcast to stop plans to move PEG...

January 9, 2008 2:46 PM

Thoughts from "Finding the Right Bandwidth" CES Session...

As mentioned yesterday, I attended a panel of representatives of the biggest broadband providers in the US, including: Tom Tauke of Verizon, Jim Cicconi of AT&T;, Joseph Waz of Comcast, Mr. Ali of Sprint (my apologies to him if he's...

December 3, 2007 1:01 PM

FTTH Increasingly Spells Success

It's been an incredible year for FTTH in arena of public opinion. It started as an albatross, a costly gamble that Wall Street battered Verizon's stock price for daring to try. Then earlier this year attitudes began to shift. As...

November 20, 2007 9:56 AM

Fullscreen Internet Video: A Revolution Weighting to Happen

In my research for a StreamingMedia.com feature that explores the opportunities and challenges of online HD video delivery, I learned about a company called Move Networks, which powers ABC's library of full-screen first-run episodes from its most popular TV shows....

November 15, 2007 11:06 AM

The Comcast P2P Situation Continues to Snowball

Comcast's policies towards its heaviest users have been covered in AppRising on more than one occasion, but they're like the gift that keeps on giving as more news continues to come out as the storm around their decision to interfere...

October 29, 2007 12:04 PM

More from the Comcast Brouhaha...

The fallout from the news that Comcast is officially interfering with P2P traffic continues to grow. It's officially hit Congress now. Here's an article in large part about a conversation the author had with Representative Rick Boucher, D-VA. And there's...

October 24, 2007 10:00 AM

Comcast - Why Are You Adding Fuel to the Net Neutrality Fire?

Just when I sensed the net neutrality debate was cooling off and the opportunity for a rationale dialogue finally seemed possible, Comcast had to go and stick its finger into the eye of the net neutrality camp. Here's what's happened:...

September 20, 2007 12:21 PM

More News on Comcast's High Bandwidth Policies

Just found this Consumerist post about Comcast's policies towards its heaviest users. They claim to have talked with a former Comcast employee who cites that Comcast's invisible bandwidth limit is actually 200GB, rather than the 100GB I postulated earlier this...

September 17, 2007 11:46 AM

Comcast Defines Bandwidth Caps, Which Are No Friend to Online HD Video

In the latest news on Comcast’s moves to cut off service to its heaviest users, they’ve made an official, though somewhat obtuse, statement about their policy towards “excessive use." In this article, a spokesperson for Comcast defines “excessive use” as...

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