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Comcast Stock Plunges After It Reports Losing 139,000 Broadband Customers: 'Disappointing'

The number of lost customers was higher than the 100,000 the company last month indicated that it expected.

Charter Rolls Out Cheaper Internet Plans To Enhance Customer Loyalty

BT said the cut in staff numbers was in part due to the completion of the roll out of its fibre optic broadband internet network

Charter's CEO, Chris Winfrey, expressed his desire for customers to associate reliability and credibility with their cable and broadband provider. He further said that the company is rolling out changes that would help in achieving this goal.

Verizon Buying Frontier Communications In $20 Billion All-Cash Deal

Signage is seen at a Verizon store in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 22, 2021.

The acquisition will allow Verizon to expand its fiber network across the nation

Internet speeds appeared to jump shortly before midnight in restive Kashmir

India To Lift Lengthy Internet Clampdown In Kashmir: Official

India to lift lengthy internet clampdown in Kashmir: official

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Analysts Warn AT&T Will Find It Hard To Find Buyer For Fading DirecTV Business

DirecTV has been hemorrhaging subscribers at an alarming rate

Virginia Man Arrested For Yelling Racial Slurs, Spitting At Verizon Employees

Robert Colonna arrived at the store and began screaming at the employees allegedly because a product he purchased was not working.

Workers at the Kenyan port of Mombasa haul ashore a fibre optic cable in June 2009 as part of a scheme to boost internet connectivity in East Africa

Massive Cable Project Set To Give Africa Internet Boost

Massive cable project set to give Africa internet boost

Telefonica said its redundancy plan is part of its effort to adapt its workforce "to the needs of future challenges"

Brave New World For UK Telecom-Media: Virgin Media In Talks To Merge With O2

O2, a subsidiary of Telefónica, and Virgin Media, which is owned by Liberty Global, may combine their U.K. assets

AT&T, Comcast Ease Data Caps And Prices On Internet In Response To COVID-19 Spread

AT&T is lifting data caps to give greater internet access to customers while Comcast is offering 60 days of its Internet Essentials for free to new customers in low-income houses.

Telemedicine may be useful in coping with the coronavirus epidemic, but many who need it lack access to adequate internet connections

Pandemic Exposes 'Digital Divide' As Schools, Workplaces Close

Pandemic exposes 'digital divide' as schools, workplaces close

Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai said fines against wireless carriers stem from the sale of customer location data without consent

Regulators Move To Fine Telecoms For Selling Location Data

Regulators move to fine telecoms for selling location data

FCC May Start Fining Carriers For Not Safeguarding User Location Data

The telecom watchdog believes that carriers may have violated promises made to the U.S. Congress.

Verizon Layoffs: 150 Employees To Be Laid Off From Media Group

Verizon Media Group is expected to lay off 150 U.S. workers this week.

Johnson and Corbyn went head-to-head in a TV election debate

Labour’s Party Plans To Nationalize Telecoms, Provide Free Broadband Derided And Mocked

A plan by Labour to offer free broadband to all Britons has been widely criticized.

Ice sheets in Greenland and the Antarctic have shed more than 430 billion tonnes per year in the last 10 years

Startup Beats SpaceX Starlink Satellite Speeds, First To Offer 100Mbps In The Arctic

Kepler Communications becomes the first satellite broadband to offer more than 100 Mbps in the Arctic.

T-Mobile CEO John Legere, seen at a congressional hearing on the merger of the wireless carrier with rival Sprint, would head the new company after the tie-up is completed

T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Finally Approved By FCC: What's Next?

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has given its stamp of approval to the $26 billion acquisition of Sprint by T-Mobile with conditions that it would monitor the commitments made.

AT&T, FTC Settle Data Throttling Complaint; $60 Million To Be Refunded To Consumers

The FTC said AT&T Mobile's unlimited data plans essentially were a bait-and-switch scam that throttled data after consumers used as little as 2 gigabytes.

Verizon Stock Downgraded As Telecom Price Wars Heat Up

First Verizon cut prices. Then AT&T followed suit. This wireless service price war is off the hook!

Verizon's Using Disney+ To Compete With T-Mobile And AT&T

Certain Verizon customers will get a free year of Disney+ when it launches next month.

Netflix will be facing tougher competition from rivals including Disney+ which is set to launch November 12

Disney And Verizon Team Up To Offer Free Streaming

The wireless giant will give its subscribers a free year of Disney+.

How To Get Disney+ Free For A Year

Eligible Verizon customers will have access to Disney+ free for one year.

SpaceX, Elon Musk Wants To Launch 30,000 More Starlink Satellites

Elon-Musk led SpaceX has sought permission to launch 30,000 more low-earth orbits (LEO) satellites for its Starlink broadband network.

T-Mobile, Sprint Merger A Big 'Win' For Rural America, DOJ Official Says

The T-Mobile Sprint merger is good for rural America said the latest news on the T-Mobile Sprint merger that quoted a top official of the Department of Justice.

High Speed Internet Across The US? What Elizabeth Warren Plans To Do To Expand Accessiblity

Much of rural America struggles to get high speed internet, a problem a potential Elizabeth Warren administration would hope to solve.

Is Google Right About Data Caps?

According to one top exec, Google expects ISPs will loosen their data caps to clear the way for its Stadia cloud gaming service. But why would they?

AT&T Isn't The Only Pay-TV Company Getting Rid Of Low-Value Customers

Cable companies like Comcast and Charter aren't interested in promo pricing their video subscriber services anymore.

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