Forget about Google TV, Apple TV, Boxee, and all the other platforms trying to aggregate online content into an easily accessible interface that bypasses traditional providers of television programming. Their inability to access the amount of basic content available with a cable TV subscription is their Achilles heel. Announcements today at the 2011 Consumer Electronics [...]
Most of the big cable companies have released their quarterly earnings reports, which include data pertaining to the number of TV subscribers they’ve added or lost. NewTeeVee reports that across the board, the cable companies cumulatively lost more than 500,000 TV subscribers in the 3rd quarter of 2010, adding to more than 700,000 losses from [...]
Ah…the coveted triple play. The name of this extremely rare occurrence in baseball (except for the Philadelphia Phillies a few nights ago) now lends its name to one of the most profitable series of consumer services in telecommunications industry history. As traditional and IP based services continue to merge, we increasingly find phone companies offering [...]
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