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Apple, Comcast Chatting About Streaming TV Service That Would Make End-Run...
(SimonA)One of the biggest roadblocks for non-cable TV companies looking to get into the business of offering live TV service over the Internet is that these cable companies often control that “last...
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Will Netflix Speeds Improve For Verizon, AT&T Internet Customers Anytime Soon?
Starting in the second half of 2013, Netflix speeds on several major Internet service providers began to sink drastically as the ISPs allowed Netflix downstream traffic to bottleneck, resulting in...
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FCC Isn’t Considering Pay-For-Access Deals In New Net Neutrality Rules
(frankieleon)Back in February, after a federal court gutted net neutrality but before Netflix agreed to pay a premium to Comcast to alleviate its data bottleneck, we predicted that any new neutrality...
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Now That Netflix Is Paying Comcast, Users Finally Get Decent Speeds… But At...
Comcast’s speed has rebounded to its fastest ever since bottoming out in January.The good news: Netflix’s deal to pay Comcast for better access to its network is working. The bad news: This will now...
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Netflix Will Also Pay Verizon To End Streaming Bottleneck
The most recent Netflix downstream speed results show how badly FiOS and AT&T U-Verse speeds have declined in the last year.The months-long game of chicken between Netflix and Verizon has come to...
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What A Difference A Payoff Makes: Comcast Customers Now Seeing Decent Netflix...
Nearly three months ago, Comcast and Netflix revealed that after months of rapidly degrading data speeds for Netflix subscribers on Comcast’s network, the streaming video company and the country’s...
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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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