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Breaux, Nickles team on data bill.(Brief Article)
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission would be required to deregulate telco-proffered broadband services without increasing the regulation of cable-modem service, according to Senate legislation introduced last Tuesday. The bill WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission would be...
Tags: broadband, FCC, Internet Service Provider, regulation, team
Research articles 2002-05-06
BT Group to buy PlusNet for $126.8 million
BT Group will buy British ISP PlusNet for $126.8 million. This deal represents a further consolidation in UK's broadband market. Earlier last month, Carphone Warehouse agreed to buy Time Warner's AOL for $697 million. BT's new broadband subscribers had reBT Group will buy British ISP PlusNet for $126.8 million. This...
Tags: broadband, BT Group Plc., Internet Service Provider
Research articles 2006-12-01
Multiple ISPs help ops market broadband.
Marketing cable modems without a choice of multiple Internet-service providers is like trying to sell cable boxes without offering a variety of programming services. That's the view of some industry insiders who've started to argue that cable Marketing...
Tags: America Online Inc., broadband, cable, EarthLink Inc., Internet Service Provider, Kelly, marketing, Time Warner Inc.
Research articles 2002-05-13
SANDVINE (SAND).
122p - Aim - The launch this week of BSkyB's free broadband internet service will have sent shivers down the spines of other internet service providers ISPs. Fresh from adjusting to Carphone Warehouse's free broadband offer, the ISPs will now have 122p - Aim -...
Tags: broadband, Internet, Internet service, Internet Service Provider, service provider
Research articles 2006-07-21
Wi-LAN and Aglotel Announce Multiple Broadband Wireless Network Deployments in Malaysia: Wi-LAN Products in 50 Broadband Projects Nationwide
CALGARY, Canada & KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Wi-LAN Inc. (TSX:WIN), a global provider of broadband wireless communication products and technologies and a charter member of the WiMAX Forum(1), and Aglotel Wireless Solutions Sdn. Bhd. Aglotel, a Wi-LAN Certified Channel Partner in Malaysia, announced today deployment of...
Tags: broadband, broadband wireless, Internet Service Provider, network, wireless network
Research articles 2004-09-13
Hartcourt to Acquire Significant Interest in World's First Fiber-Based Broadband ISP.(Brief Article)
The Hartcourt Companies Inc. announced that it has signed a stock purchase agreement to acquire up to 40 percent of the equity of @Family Broadband Networks Ltd., the first fiber-based broadband internet service provider being set up by ChinaCityNet The Hartcourt Companies Inc. announced that...
Tags: broadband, broadband Internet, fiber, Internet Service Provider
Research articles 2000-11-01
NS8 Corporation Plans Pilot Program Testing with Several Broadband ISP and Wireless Hotspot Providers for its iWave Interactive Services
SEATTLE -- NS8 Corporation (OTCBB:NSEO) announces that several broadband internet service providersISPs located in Washington, Arizona, North Carolina and Colorado plan to participate in pilot program testing of the Company's new digital entertainment on-demand services.
Tags: broadband, Internet Service Provider, wireless, wireless hotspot
Research articles 2005-09-29
Earthlink might shift focus to DSL.(Brief Article)
With its advance into new cable broadband markets at a standstill, EarthLink Inc. may change its tune to one that's more focused on digital subscriber line service in 2003. In the past year, the Atlanta-based Internet-service provider has peg ...
Tags: broadband, cable, DSL, EarthLink Inc., Internet Service Provider
Research articles 2003-02-03
Dial-up 'subsidy': temporarily permanent. (Policy).(a discussion of the need for the permanent subsidy for Internet-service providers)
In Washington, nothing is more permanent than a temporary subsidy. Twenty years ago, the federal government insulated information-service providers from a cash-draining regulation called access charges, a move that in time spawned the creation of 7 In Washington, nothing is more permanent than a...
Tags: broadband, exemption, FCC, Internet Service Provider, subsidy
Research articles 2003-01-20
California ISPs support state ruling that PUC has broadband jurisdiction over SBC and Pacific Bell. (Government & Regulations).(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)
The largest state association of Internet service providers in the United States announced its support for a ruling issued on March 28 by the California Public Utilities Commission CPUC that the state of California has the authority to regulate DSL The largest state association of Internet...
Tags: broadband, Internet, Internet service, Internet Service Provider
Research articles 2002-04-01
Fall broadband battle looms.
WASHINGTON -- Consumer groups are hoping to make off with the punch bowl at this fall's Federal Communications Commission broadband deregulation party. Later this month, the FCC will begin to review the record in multiple proceedings that are ...
Tags: broadband, cable, FCC, Internet Service Provider, phone, phone company
Research articles 2002-07-08
America Online's broadband users will have access to exclusive content from the X Games under a deal the ISP. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
NEW YORK -- America Online's broadband users will have access to exclusive content from the X Games under a deal the ISP forged with ESPN. The promotional agreement calls for The Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN to provide X Games highlights and...
Tags: America Online Inc., broadband, ESPN, Internet Service Provider
Research articles 2002-08-26
FREE FOR ALL: ISPs rush to attract subscribers AT&T cuts prices; EarthLink bets on quality service and broadband .
The momentum of free ISPs, broadband service and America Online is shaking up the fragmented ISP market -- and changing the game for some major services as they jockey for users and advertisers. The momentum of free ISPs, broadband service and America Online is ...
Tags: AT&T Corp., broadband, EarthLink Inc., Internet Service Provider
Research articles 2000-08-28
A Voice in Support of Open-Access Rules.
A hot debate regarding "open access" is heating up in cities and municipalities across the country and in Virginia. The question looming before regulators and legislators is whether cable companies should be required to open up their A hot...
Tags: AT&T Corp., broadband, cable, cable company, Internet, Internet Service Provider
Research articles 2000-02-14
ISPs Stake Broadband Claim.
BALTIMORE -- Developments on several fronts last week combined to serve notice that from now on, ISPs will be a force to be reckoned with on cable's residential broadband turf. The annual Internet Service Provider Convention here was the focal ...
Tags: broadband, DSL, Internet Service Provider
Research articles 1999-05-03
Wi-LAN and Aglotel Announce Multiple Broadband Wireless Network Deployments in Malaysia: Wi-LAN Products in 50 Broadband Projects Nationwide.
CALGARY, CANADA and KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, Sep 13, 2004 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Wi-LAN Inc. (TSX:WIN), a global provider of broadband wireless communication products and technologies and a charter member of the WiMAX Forum(1), and Aglotel Wirele CALGARY, CANADA and KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, Sep 13, 2004...
Tags: broadband, broadband wireless, Internet Service Provider, network, wireless network
Research articles 2004-09-13
PLC Network Solutions Contracts With Mentor Properties to Install Its Broadband Over PowerLine (BPL) Devices and Bundled Services (ISP, VoIP)
Trimax Corporation (OTC BB: TMXO), through its wholly owned subsidiary PLC Network Solutions Inc. ("PLC"), today announced that it has signed an agreement with Mentor Properties of Toronto, Canada, to install its Broadband over Powerline BPL devices, and bundled services (ISP, VoIP) in three buildings within its portfolio of properties...
Tags: broadband, broadband over power line, Internet Service Provider, Mentor, Network Solutions Inc., powerline, VoIP
Research articles 2005-10-20
Good news ahead: Supreme Court seems to favor cable in open-access fight.(NCTA Preview)( Federal Communications Commission's regulations on the use of broadband lines)
Cable-industry lawyers say that they have a good shot at keeping rival Internet service providers ISPs away from their broadband subscribers. That prediction came last week during oral arguments in a case that could dictate how cable companies op Cable-industry lawyers say that they...
Tags: broadband, cable, cable company, FCC, Internet, Internet service, Internet Service Provider, service provider
Research articles 2005-04-04
Shooting for the open net. (Regulation).(consumer groups, independent Internet service providers push for cable broadband regulation)(Brief Article)
Independent ISPs, consumer groups and some of cable's rivals have bee pushing the FCC to impose some type of open access or non-discrimination requirement on cable broadband since at least 1998, when high-speed Internet service first took off. Independent...
Tags: broadband, cable, cable broadband, FCC, Internet, Internet service, Internet Service Provider
Research articles 2002-12-16
Paying for the privilege.
Cable's control over broadband connections means a high price for high speed Despite their efforts to stay out of the fray, broadcasters are likely to get dragged into the cable industry's fight over the broadband Internet pipeline. ...
Tags: cable, Internet, cable industry, broadband, America Online Inc., FCC, Internet Service Provider, network, service provider, TCI
Research articles 1999-03-08