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Comcast/Time Warner Cable Biggest Broadband Winners; DSL Withers on the Vine
Won 1.1 million new customers in 2011 Comcast and Time Warner Cable collectively picked up more than 1.5 million new customers in 2011, with most of the growth coming from dissatisfied DSL subscribers...
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Payoff: Big Telecom Cuts Big Checks to Legislators Who Outlawed N.C....
The Republican takeover of the North Carolina legislature in 2010 was great news for some of the state’s largest telecommunications companies, who successfully received almost universal support from...
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The Death of the Landline? AT&T Ditches Yellow Pages, Pay Phones Disappear;...
As AT&T joins Verizon selling off its Yellow Pages publishing unit and payphones keep disappearing from street corners, the media is writing the landline obituary once again. CNN Money asks today...
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Copper Thieves Start Targeting Power and Cable-TV Lines Creating Major Outages
This scrap copper wire is as good as gold While telephone companies continue to suffer repeated outages from copper wire thieves, the growing problem of copper theft has now begun to impact cable-TV...
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A Look at Broadband Numbers in the United States: DSL Hurting Phone Companies
Lost more customers than it gained for the first time. Phone companies depending on DSL to keep them in the broadband business are in growing trouble, unless they lack a nearby cable competitor....
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Broadband Maptastrophe; FCC Ignores Its Own 4/1Mbps Standard, Relies On...
How accurate is the map? The biggest story you know nothing about is taking place at the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, where regulators are trying to figure out what to do with $185...
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Snow Day: Missouri Businesses Temporarily Close Because Kids Home Online Clog...
When inclement weather forces Wayne County, Mo. schools to close, some area businesses in Piedmont also send employees home because their Windstream Communications’ DSL Internet speeds slow to a...
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Georgia’s Rural Towns Up in Arms Over Anti-Community Broadband Bill Pushed by...
Windstream is reportedly behind the latest effort to ban community broadband networks in Georgia. Rural communities across Georgia are upset about a new piece of legislation ghost-written by Windstream...
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Windstream’s Plans for 2013: We’re Nearly Done Expanding Broadband, Time to...
Windstream has announced the increased broadband investments that expanded DSL service to about 75,000 more homes and businesses and brought fiber connections to cell towers are nearly complete and the...
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Windstream’s Lousy Performance in Georgia Sparks Facebook Protest Group,...
While Windstream continues to heavily lobby the Georgia legislature for a bill that would ban competition from publicly owned broadband providers, the company is doing little to address the growing...
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Tech Companies, Consumers, Communities Push Back Against Georgia...
Mayor Guest Despite protests from major technology companies, consumers, and local communities across Georgia, the House Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications Committee passed a slightly-revised HB...
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Time Warner Cable’s $5.26 Million Grant from NY Taxpayers Ruins Their Rhetoric
Time Warner Cable objects to publicly-owned broadband networks because they represent “unfair” publicly-funded “competition,” despite the fact TWC is also on the public dole. The next time a cable...
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Windstream Exposed: Provider Under Investigation in Georgia for Ripping Off...
Windstream Communications is under investigation by the Governor’s Office of Consumer Protection because of allegations the company is advertising broadband speeds and performance the company simply...
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Special Report: Georgia’s ‘Men From A.L.E.C.’: Who Do Your Legislators Really...
The corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) took a hit in the Georgia legislature last week as the clock ran out on several initiatives backed by its members and supporters on...
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Major Outage in Southeast, Turkey Buzzard Poo in Nebraska Challenging Windstream
Circling… While tens of thousands of customers in the southeastern United States might describe the quality of Windstream service as something to avoid stepping in, turkey buzzards are generating...
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Windstream Pays $600,000 to Settle False Broadband Speed Claims in Georgia
Windstream delivers turtle slow Internet speeds to customers paying for fast connections. Windstream broadband customers in Georgia were not imagining their turtle-slow DSL Internet speeds after all....
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Windstream Teaches AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, Others How to Avoid Federal Income...
Another corporate tax cut Wall Street rallied around big telecommunications company stocks this week as news spread that Windstream has found a way to avoid paying federal income tax by converting its...
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Windstream Introduces Kinetic IPTV Triple Play in Lincoln, Neb.; Includes...
Windstream this week introduced its fiber to the neighborhood service Kinetic – its attempt to bring a competitive triple-play package of broadband, home phone, and television service to about 50,000...
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Windstream’s Kinetic TV Barely Competes With Time Warner Cable in Nebraska
If Windstream was hoping to make a splash with its new Kinetic IPTV service, Time Warner Cable certainly isn’t reaching for a towel. Kinetic debuted in April in Lincoln, Neb., the first community to...
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Windstream Tells Its DSL Customer in South Carolina to Consider Satellite...
On the outside looking in. Windstream’s DSL service in parts of Inman, S.C. is so bad, the company has recommended some DSL customers consider signing up for a competitor’s satellite-based Internet...
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