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 [...]
Comcast released an explanation of Internet peering today as a subtle defense to the fees it recently imposed on Level 3 Communications. Comcast’s explanation of Internet peering focuses on the fact that the various large networks of which the Internet is composed generally have pre-established peering policies that hinge on fair and equal exchanges of traffic. When [...]
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No Comments »Disappointing news for net neutrality proponents hit the wire late today. Apparently, in response to Netflix‘ recent deal with Level 3 Communications in which Level 3 will carry Netflix streaming video data traffic, Comcast has levied a recurring fee on Level 3 to deliver this streaming video traffic to its customers. Backed into a corner, Level 3 [...]
Posted in Content Delivery, How It Works, Internet, Technology, Web Technology Tags: comcast, Internet, Level 3, Net Neutrality, Netflix 3 Comments »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 [...]
