Zoom Telephonics successor Minim dropped Zoom's 2016 petitions to have the FCC reconsider its approvals of Altice's buy of Cablevision (see 1606140015) and of Charter Communications' buy of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks (see 1606100043), per dismissals Wednesday in docket 15-257 and docket 15-149.
Altice's Optimum brand launched 8 Gbps symmetrical fiber service to more than 1.7 million addresses in its footprint, with it to be available to nearly 3 million passings by year's end, Altice said Monday.
Cable operators filing FCC Form 1240 can adjust the non-external portion of their rates by 4.14% in Q1 2023 to account for inflation, the Media Bureau and Office of Economics and Analytics said Friday.
Cox Communications closed on its buy of Missouri-based fiber communications infrastructure services provider Unite Private Networks, Cox said Thursday. It said Unite and Cox-owned fiber infrastructure provider Segra will be a stand-alone fiber company focusing on growing in the commercial fiber market. Cox had been majority owner of Unite since 2016.
CableLabs and the Telecom Infra Project community validated version 2.9 of the open-source OpenWiFi platform and launched CableLabs' OpenWiFi Community Lab for testing and demonstration, CableLabs said Wednesday. The OpenWiFi platform is for enabling multivendor managed Wi-Fi networks.
Cable operators in a competitive video marketplace "take seriously our responsibility to operate transparently and provide consumers with relevant information related to the cost of services," NCTA emailed us Wednesday in response to the "all-in" video pricing NPRM adopted by the FCC (see 2306200042). The cable group said it plans to participate in the proceeding.
Wired broadband subscriber growth has stalled for now, but the cable industry can likely maintain broadband annual revenue growth of about 3% seen in recent years, MoffettNathanson wrote investors Tuesday. The faster average revenue per user growth rates for cable's competitors, like AT&T's fiber, "provide some measure of confidence," it said.
Comcast's fiber-to-the-home symmetrical service, Gigabit Pro, is now offering 10 Gbps symmetrical service, the company said Tuesday. It said that fixed broadband speed is available across all Comcast's markets.
None of the five shareholder proposals up for a vote at the company's annual meeting last week -- including a recommendation that it prepare a report on its dependence on China (see 304260032) -- passed, Comcast said Friday.
Comcast will announce next month the availability of multi-gigabyte symmetrical speeds throughout its entire footprint, Comcast Cable CEO Dave Watson said Tuesday during a J.P. Morgan investor conference. Watson said Comcast is enjoying "good success" in state-level broadband digital divide grants. The company extended its network past 840,000 passings last year and expects to do 1 million this year, with most of that unsubsidized, he said. Watson said about 85% of Comcast's mobile service traffic isn't carried via its mobile virtual network operator agreement, and it's "testing very actively" offloading more using its own spectrum. Comcast also unveiled its Now TV streaming platform Tuesday. At $20 a month, its lineup includes more than 40 live linear channels and more than 20 free ad-supported channels and Peacock Premium. It's available to Xfinity broadband subscribers.