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Netflix Tests Passive-Aggressive Buffering Messages To Call Out Slow ISPs
When your streaming video of Charles In Charge comes in pixelated and is regularly interrupted by pauses for buffering, is it the streaming service or your ISP? New messages being tested by Netflix...
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FCC To Look Into Data Bottlenecks And Pay-For-Access Deals With ISPs
(Atwater Village Newbie)The whole point of net neutrality is that Internet Service Providers like Comcast and Verizon shouldn’t be allowed to actively prioritize or degrade the data they help to...
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Verizon, Netflix Stepping Up Battle To Blame Each Other For Poor Streaming...
(Jeffrey)The heat of high summer is a great time to stay inside and marathon a million hours of TV. But for some Netflix customers who use Verizon as their ISP, the summer streaming season is a slow...
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Netflix Is Also Paying A Toll To Time Warner Cable To Improve Speeds To Users
The latest Netflix speed data shows that TWC downstream speeds improved after it quietly reached a paid-peering deal with Netflix in June. Meanwhile, FiOS still sucks, in spite of its peering...
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Netflix Speeds Finally Rebound For FiOS, U-Verse Customers
For years, Verizon has bragged about the fast data speeds available to subscribers of its FiOS broadband service. Meanwhile, the company was allowing Netflix streams to bottleneck, resulting in real...
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Netflix CEO Asks: Why Aren’t Cable Companies Paying Us?
Earlier this year, Netflix customers with slow connections saw messages like this one, putting the blame on their Internet service provider.For years, as cable companies and other Internet Service...
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You Are Now Watching 93 Minutes Of Netflix A Day, You Lazy Bum
Cable companies hate Netflix. They pretend it’s because the streaming video service puts up a fuss about having to pay a toll just to be carried that last mile of the Internet to customers’ homes. But...
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Netflix-Verizon Connection Agreement Finally Pays Off: FiOS Users Seeing...
Netflix’s ISP speed ranking for October, 2014. Netflix and Verizon have done a lot of very public verbal poo-flinging at each other this year over the abysmal connection speeds FiOS customers have had...
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Senator Asks Comcast To Stick With Net Neutrality Beyond Its Legal Obligation
(Christopher.V)While its counterparts (we can’t call them competition, since that doesn’t exist) at other cable and Internet service providers have been drooling over proposed “net neutrality” rules...
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Why Dish’s Sling TV Is A Factor In Pending Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger
Later this month, Dish will finally launch its much-awaited Sling TV streaming service that gives subscribers live online access to a dozen cable channels. And even though Sling has yet to go live,...
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