‘Cable cutters’ wonder whether cheaper alternative is over as Netflix raises price
Subscribers concerned after Netflix raises price of its most popular plan from $14 to $15.50 as cost of streaming rises
August 2018
'They're liquidating us': AT&T continues layoffs and outsourcing despite profits
The communications giant is expecting a windfall of $20bn in savings from Trump’s tax reforms, but has closed 44 call centers since 2011
August 2017
FCC flooded with comments before critical net neutrality vote
The FCC has received nearly 22m comments on “Restoring Internet Freedom” with just hours left before the window for public feedback closes on Wednesday
June 2016
Donald Trump news network? Camp denies rumors and industry is aghast
Businessman wouldn’t be first to turn bomb-throwing interviews into glorified screen tests and lucrative contracts with cable networks – and most have failed
April 2016
FCC to let cable company Charter purchase current rival Time Warner
Chairman recommends that the body approve the third-largest US cable company’s plan to purchase the second-largest, as well as Bright House Networks
I'm a Verizon employee. Here's why I'm on strike
Jazmin Sypher
My co-workers and I aren’t asking for CEO salaries. We’d just like to take care of our families
Thousands of Verizon workers strike on east coast amid contract dispute
39,000 landline and cable workers in nine Eastern states and Washington DC have walked off the job after working without a contract since August
March 2016
Rural residents fight traders' plans for masts as high as the Shard
Vigilant Global and New Line Networks (NLN) want to build communications towers to shave milliseconds off the time it takes trade the markets
January 2016
Greenslade
Denis O'Brien, a media magnate attacked for threatening press freedom
Irish Times charts ‘a year of striking undulation’ for Ireland’s richest man
October 2015
Liberty Global and Cable & Wireless confirm merger talks
Telecoms firms, both of which are backed by cable magnate John Malone, could agree $5bn deal by early November, according to report
July 2015
Time Warner Cable must pay $229,500 to Texas woman it robocalled 153 times
Company found to have placed 153 automated calls meant for someone else to Araceli King’s phone in less than a year, even after she told it to stop
June 2015
Net neutrality rules to go into effect after court rejects bid to block them
In what FCC chairman Tom Wheeler calls ‘a huge victory,’ the rules will go into effect Friday despite a handful of lawsuits challenging them
May 2015
'Darth Vader' vs the feds: Time Warner deal will test Charter's notorious backer
Charter Communications to acquire Time Warner Cable for $55.3bn
April 2015
How an army of internet activists challenged Big Cable and won again
Fresh off a net neutrality victory, grassroots campaigners were determined to stop the $45bn Comcast-Time Warner merger dead in its tracks
February 2015
Cord cutters on net neutrality: 'It would be the end of wild wild west of the internet'
The ‘awe-inspiring’ FCC internet protections leave cord cutters wanting. Their main complaint? Lack of competition among internet providers
November 2014
Market Forces blog
Cable & Wireless Communications drops 8% on news of $1.85bn Caribbean deal
Company to issue shares to help buy Columbus, giving billionaire John Malone 13%
October 2014
You tell us
HBO Go for cord-cutters is coming! Until then, share your password 'borrowing' nightmare
Sarah Galo
You tell us: Do you get by with a little help from your friends who actually pay a cable bill? Isn’t it about time the best networks pulled a Netflix?
September 2014
Hey, FCC: do your job and stand up for net neutrality, not Big Cable schemes
Ron Wyden in Washington
Dan Gillmor column
The ‘Internet Slowdown’ protest for net neutrality needs to target regulators
Dan Gillmor
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