Wow. From GigaOM and The Wall Street Journal this morning, the Spring/Clearwire WiMAX joint venture is on, and top cable operators are in on the fun. Comcast is adding more than $1 billion to the venture, Time Warner Cable is putting in $550 million and Bright House Networks is committed for $100 million. That doesn’t [...]
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ISP Planet has a new report out showing that Time Warner Cable is about to surpass Vonage in digital phone/VoIP subscribers to become number two in the market after number-one Comcast. (Years of Vonage hype has not been enough to insulate the company against both patent woes and the might of the cable industry.) With [...]
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I’ve been wondering about cable digital subscriber numbers in the wake of the Seven-Oh-Seven deadline. Comcast had a major promotional push going on prior to the deadline, presumably in the hopes of clearing out its inventory of non-CableCARD set-tops. Did it pay off in digital subscribers? Yes, it did. In spades.
One [...]
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Last week I mentioned some of the features AT&T has publicly committed to roll out with U-Verse. Compare those features to the new Verizon FiOS interface (see above) and a few interactive services Time Warner Cable is promising, and it’s clear we’re moving into the world of widget TV.
Here are the new features Time [...]
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It looks like Motorola, headed by Ed Zander and the full Board of Executives, has pulled out a win against Carl Icahn. The billionaire investor was bidding for a seat on Motorola’s Board with an agenda to make some serious changes within the company. You can read all about Motorola’s argument against the [...]
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Last month the Wall Street Journal reported that Time Warner senior executives are considering reducing the company’s cable TV holdings. That statement comes apparently despite significant growth in Time Warner’s cable business. In this morning’s earnings call, the company announced double-digit profit increases in both AOL and Time Warner Cable. That’s double-digit [...]
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Thanks to Dave Z. for finding the late-night article in Multichannel News about a District Court’s decision to rule against Cablevision in its bid to deploy a network-based DVR service. Sued by several studios and networks, Cablevision believes copyright law is on its side because network DVR would work very similarly to DVRs installed [...]
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As someone who once lived in a log cabin and often had to run outside to adjust the TV antenna attached to the roof, I have to admit I’m feeling a certain amount of nostalgia now that rabbit ears are going the way of the dodo bird.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced [...]
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I caught the first half of Time Warner Cable’s Bear Stearns presentation today and also skipped through the full PowerPoint deck. Not being a financial analyst, the pieces I found most interesting had to do with the technology.
First, not surprisingly, CFO John Martin emphasized TWC’s infrastructure as a competitive differentiator. On [...]
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Mark your calendars – Time Warner Cable’s CFO John Martin will present at Bear Stearn’s Media Conference tomorrow around 10:20 am ET. Yes, financial presentations can be hideously boring, but they can also contain extremely interesting nuggets of information. Now is a good time to be paying attention to Time Warner because the [...]
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