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Bresnan Communications (see our user reviews) is the nation’s thirteenth largest cable operator, serving customers in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah. Bresnan tells attendees of a DOCSIS 3.0 conference in Denver that they’re installing Cisco uBR10012 cable modem termination systems (CMTS) in select markets, but they’re not embracing faster wideband speeds just yet — in [...]

Over the last few years, Australian lawmakers have been enamored with the idea of Internet filters, spending almost a hundred million on filtering technology that a teenager was able to circumnavigate in just a few minutes. The desire to erase all naughty bits from the ‘Net culminated in a different, 5.8 million Cyber-Safety filtering system [...]

As we’ve been exploring, the music industry has been engaged in a global campaign to put ISPs into the role of content nannies, trying to get laws passed forcing ISPs to terminate the accounts of repeat offenders. So far laws have been successful in only a few countries (like France), though closed door negotiations with [...]

Be it wireless or landline, the phone companies have a long history of tacking strange fees and “taxes” below the line on your bill, instead of rolling the entire cost of doing business into the final price. The practice lets companies advertise one price while charging another — and use the fees to quietly hike [...]

Canadian regulators haven’t been particularly sympathetic to the plight of smaller ISPs or the issue of network neutrality — in part because, much like in the States, the regulatory agency is stocked with incumbent executives and lobbyists being endlessly lobbied by incumbent executives and lobbyists. However, Canadian Law Professor Michael Geist points to several pro-consumer [...]

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Though most people in the United States were busy sleeping, blogger hearts are a’flutter over the fact that Google GMail and other application users experienced a four hour outage yesterday. According to a Google blog post, the outage was caused by a “routine maintenance event” gone wrong in one of Google’s European data centers, somehow [...]

A growing number of cable operators are deploying switched digital video (SDV) technology, which frees up bandwidth on cable systems by delivering fewer channels to the cable-box, keeping the rest waiting at the edge router. In current cable systems, all channels are consistently made available to the set-top box, using up valuable bandwidth even if [...]

Rouzbeh Yassini, considered by many to be the “godfather” of the DOCSIS cable specification, says that while DOCSIS 3.0 is a great advancement, there’s plenty of work to be done. For his keynote address at the Light Reading DOCSIS 3.0 conference in Denver, Yassini addressed the fact that the specification still has upstream limitations. “Good [...]

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The cable industry and cable industry stock watchers earlier this week declared that despite the recession, consumers weren’t canceling cable for Internet video — one analyst going so far as to declare that people cutting the cable cord are an “urban myth.” The San Francisco Chronicle somehow managed to track several of these mythical creatures [...]

For the last three or four years, many investors whined about Verizon deciding to spend billions to deploy fiber to the home. But as install prices drop, a recent study from the Yankee Group suggests that fiber to the home connections generate ARPU (average revenue per user) of 20 percent to 30 percent higher than [...]

User uid://560725 writes in to note that in an interview with QuakeUnity, id Software’s John Carmack and Marty Stratton discuss QuakeLive, a free ad supported version of Quake3 that’s being delivered entirely in-browser. “John and Marty discuss the QuakeLive backend infrastructure, which is hosted at GNi in San Fransisco. The static content, such as the [...]