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Comcast, Spectrum, and Other Cable Companies Are Getting Smarter About Fighting Cybersecurity Threats To Protect You
With data breaches a pretty regular affair and your personal information constantly under threat of getting exposed, the battle against cybersecurity gets tougher all the time. The cable industry believes it can help, and on Tuesday laid out a set of policies to allow everyone from network engineers to cybersecurity professionals to take that fight…
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Spectrum Is Closing Nine Stores in the East Coast and Midwest
Spectrum is closing nine stores tomorrow, Cord Cutters News has confirmed. The stores are located on the East Coast and Midwest, ranging from New York to as far south as Missouri. The closures are a sign — albeit a small one — that more customers are relying on Spectrum’s website to sign up for services,…
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YouTube TV Now Lets You Reduce Your Broadcast Delay Permanently — Just in Time For the Super Bowl
With the Super Bowl coming up, having a video stream with lower lag is going to be clutch. YouTube TV on Thursday said you’ll be to permanently reduce that broadcast delay that once plagued your video stream. YouTube TV originally introduced this feature in November, but it only allowed you to reduce the delay for…
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T-Mobile Says it Added 541,000 5G Home Internet Customers the Same Day Comcast Posted Broadband Losses
T-Mobile continued to be on a tear on the broadband front, adding 541,000 5G home internet subscribers in the fourth quarter, which has a good chance of exceeding all other broadband providers — combined. The results were part of the fourth-quarter results the company reported on Thursday. Earlier that morning, Comcast reported losing 34,000 broadband…
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Verizon’s Legacy Price Hike is Coming, But it Also Brings One Benefit
Verizon Wireless has begun alerting customers on some of its older plans that they’ll be seeing a $4 price increase starting in March. But the rate hike isn’t coming without one benefit: More hotspot data. Verizon will give all customers on legacy plans who are seeing a price increase an extra 5 GB of mobile…
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NBCUniversal Buying Warner Bros. Discovery or Paramount? Comcast CEO Denies Interest in Any Deals
The media industry is abuzz with chatter about potential mergers between the major players. Comcast CEO Brian Roberts is having one of it. “While there may be speculation on what we could do next, I’d like you to hear it directly from me,” Roberts said on the company’s fourth-quarter earnings conference call. “I love the…
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Netflix Has 23 Million Monthly Users on its $6.99 Ad Plan
Netflix’s cheaper ad tier is gaining momentum. The company, which reported its fourth-quarter results on Tuesday, disclosed on its earnings conference call with investors that it has 23 million monthly users on its ad-based plan. That’s up from 15 million customers in November — a 70% jump from the third quarter, which itself saw a…
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Paramount Reportedly Has a New Suitor That’s Not Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount Global and its parent company, National Amusements, has a new suitor. Skydance Media CEO David Ellison has made a preliminary bid to buy National Amusements, which owns a controlling stake in the media company, according to Bloomberg. Ellison, the son of billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, is also in talks with merging Skydance Media…
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DIRECTV STREAM Adds Two New The CW Affiliates
DIRECTV on Wednesday said it added two new The CW affiliates to its live-TV streaming service. WSAV-CW, the affiliate in Savannah, Georgia, and WCBD-CW, the affiliate in Charleston, South Carolina, went live on DIRECTV Stream on Tuesday. DIRECTV has been steadily working to bring more The CW affiliates to DIRECTV STREAM in an effort to…
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Sling TV Freestream Adds 15 New Free Channels This Week
Sling TV’s free, ad-supported streaming service Freestream added more than a dozen new channels as it continues to ramp up its library of content. The 15 new channels include several Vevo channels dedicated to different genres of music, as well as one focused independent films. The addition comes on top of four channels added at…