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Cheap Broadband is the Oil of the Modern Economy

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2008-08-05 16:13:49 by Guest Writer in Mashable!
...broadband Internet access are the twin fuels of both brick and mortar businesses and Internet based businesses. When oil prices are low, economies can zoom at light speed. When prices are high, many businesses can barely put one foot in front of another. A look at the history of oil might serve to help us understand the importance of...
 
Tags: broadband, increases, broadband capability increases, broadband internet access, internet access, oil, internet, internet based businesses, home broadband adoption
 
 
 
 
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The End Of DSL? AT&T, Verizon Show Weak Broadband Growth. Good News For Comcast, Cable?

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2008-07-29 06:00:00 by Dan Frommer in Silicon Alley Insider
...broadband net subscriber additions for Q2. Two possibilities: The U.S. broadband market is getting saturated. Or the telcos are getting hammered by cable giants like Comcast. Or both Monday morning, Verizon (VZ) said it signed up just 54,000 net new broadband subscribers last quarter, down from 288,000 a year ago. Last week, AT&T (T) said it...
 
Tags: cable, cable giants, dsl, verizon, cable competitors, comcast, fios, fios broadband subscribers, broadband subscribers
 
 
 
 
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American Airlines Starts Testing In-Flight Broadband

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2008-06-25 22:29:02 by Kristen Nicole in Mashable!
...broadband late last year, along with most of the other major airlines that operate in the US. Today we learn from WebProNews that American Airlines is allowing passengers in on the testing phase, beginning with a flight between New York and Los Angeles Testing may expand to flights between New York and San Francisco as well as flights between...
 
Tags: in-flight, in-flight broadband, in-flight wifi, flight, broadband, wifi, american airlines, flights, shorter flights
 
 
 
 
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Broadband - Okay, lets just get down to the bottom of it. Comcast, you suck.

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2008-01-19 00:32:23 by Jason in OpenJason
...broadband service? IF you go to the broadband speedtest site, (www.speedtest.net) youll see whos got the best broadband. This is such a cool site I love it. Heres where we stand in the rankings/by country Japan 11941 kb/s 5543 kb/s Sweden 8122 kb/s 2733 kb/s Latvia 6901 kb/s 2622 kb/s Romania 6430 kb/s 3019 kb/s Lithuania 5632 kb/s 3548 kb/s...
 
Tags: kbs, broadband, comcast, comcast sucks, quality broadband provider, broadband service, comcast story, fight, tool
 
 
 
 
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Telcos Routed: DSL Customers Fleeing To Cable Broadband

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2008-08-04 06:00:00 by Dan Frommer in Silicon Alley Insider
...broadband subscribers. So far, 69% of 476,000 total Q2 net broadband subscriber additions have gone to two cable companies -- Comcast (CMCSA) and Cablevision (CVC). And just 31% have gone to five phone companies, including the two biggest -- AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ), whose results were both boosted by sign-ups to their new, faster,...
 
Tags: cable, cable companies, companies, time warner cable, dsl, cable internet, cable industry, phone companies, dsl subscribers
 
 
 
 
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Are You Bingeing On Broadband? Time To Pay Up. But How Much?

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2008-06-14 12:00:00 by Dan Frommer in Silicon Alley Insider
...broadband service priced by how much bandwidth you use is "inevitable." This follows Time Warner Cable (TWC), which is testing a consumption-based broadband service in Texas, and Comcast (CMCSA), which is reportedly considering a similar plan . Until now, most U.S. residential broadband subscriptions have been offered as "unlimited," with...
 
Tags: cable, cable company, time warner cable, bandwidth hogs, bandwidth, plan, cheap plan, bandwidth gluttons, expensive plan
 
 
 
 
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Charter Broadband Growth Dives, Q2 Revenues Barely Miss (CHTR)

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2008-08-05 11:45:00 by Dan Frommer in Silicon Alley Insider
...broadband subscribers during Q2, down from 60,300 net sub. additions during Q2 2007 No big phone companies reported today, so Charter's modest subscriber growth is still helping cable continue to dominate the Q2 broadband market : Cable accounts for 70.5% of Q2 broadband net subscriber additions -- more than twice the phone industry's 29.5%...
 
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Cable Broadband Growth Beats Telcos 3-To-1 In Q2

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2008-08-06 10:23:00 by Dan Frommer in Silicon Alley Insider
...broadband subscribers -- is even stronger today Add in today's results, including Time Warner Cable (TWC) and Qwest (Q), and cable has signed up 74% of the 744,000 net new high-speed Internet subscribers, while telcos have attracted just 26%. That means that in Q2, cable companies signed up approximately three broadband subscribers for every...
 
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Cable-Telco Price War Brewing As Broadband Growth Tanks

2008-09-02 08:20:00 by Dan Frommer in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...broadband subscribers picked cable Internet over service from their phone company, a dramatic shift in a market that used to favor cheaper DSL. Add that there are simply fewer potential customers to sign up -- as broadband Internet penetration increases -- and the land grab makes sense This strategy might work for now -- DSL is still fast...
 
Tags: cable, phone company, phone, phone companies hold, cable rivals, dsl, favor cheaper dsl, expect cable, dsl service