Category: News
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The FCC Wants to Bring High-Speed Home Internet to 6 Million Rural Americans
Today the FCC announced that they believe their Rural Digital Opportunity fund would help six million rural Americans have access to high-speed internet. Thsi comes as the FCC plans to spend $20.4 billion to help close the rural internet divide. “The digital divide affects many people in many rural communities. I’ve said that the Rural…
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Disney+ Was the Top Downloaded App in the US for Q4
In Sensor Tower’s Store Intelligence Data Digest for Q4 of 2019, the data shows that Disney+ is the top downloaded app in the US, with over 30 million downloads from iPhones, iPads, and Google Play from October 1 though December 31. Disney+ beat out Tik Tok, Facebook, and YouTube to take the top spot. While…
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Starry Is Offering Free Internet for Life…
Starry is a wireless 5G home Internet service that has recently been expanding across the United States. Now Starry is offering free Internet for life if you help them get new partnerships. Right now, Starry is looking to partner with apartment buildings. To do this, the company is asking people who live in apartments to…
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Verizon Has Delayed Its 5G Home Internet Rollout
Verizon was one of the first companies to roll out 5G home internet in markets like Houston, Texas. Starting at $50 a month, Verizon is selling high-speed Internet with speeds around 300 Mbps down if you are a Version wireless customer. Verizon told Lightreading.com this week that they are going to hold off on rolling…
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Amazon’s Deal to Stream NFL Football Is Ending & Rights Are Up for Bidding Again
For two years now Amazon has streamed NFL Thursday night football, but that deal has come to an end with the close of the 2019 NFL season. Amazon has to bid again for rights to stream Thursday night NFL football. If no deal is reached, NFL football will not be returning to Twitch and Amazon…
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T-Mobile’s Home Internet Service Is Looking for More Testers
In March 2019, T-Mobile announced that they have started to test home Internet services using LTE. At the time, this program offered LTE home Internet to 50,000 households to begin testing out T-Mobile’s hardware ahead of their 5G home Internet service launch. Since that announcement, T-Mobile has slowly been rolling out invites to the service.…
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AT&T TV NOW Adds New DVR Features to Its Live Feed on More Devices
Late last year AT&T started to roll out an updated DVR to its AT&T TV NOW service. Subscribers may not have noticed any changes, but the back end of AT&T’s DVR service on AT&T TV NOW was expanded and improved according to AT&T. The only noticeable change at the time was beta testers who still…
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NBC News Is Shutting Down Its Peacock Products Group
This week NBCUniversal announced that it is shutting down its Peacock Products Group, which focused on unscripted content. Now NBC says it is shifting strategy according to a report from Variety. “NBC News is shifting its documentary strategy to an entirely new model, consistent with industry trends, and unfortunately the existing operation is no longer…
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Here is Everything Coming to Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime The Week of January 13th 2020
January 13 The Healing Powers of Dude January 14 Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts The Master January 15 Big Fat Liar Grace and Frankie: Season 6 Quien a hierro mata January 16 NiNoKuni Steve Jobs January 17 Ares Hip-Hop Evolution: Season 4 Sex Education: Season 2 Tiny House Nation: Volume 2 Tyler Perry’s A…
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Hulu Expands Creative Leadership as it Launches Creative Arm, Greenhouse
Hulu has expanded its creative leadership with two new hires, Brandon Pierce, Vice President, Creative Director and Liz Levy, Vice President, Head of Creative for Brands. Pierce and Levy join as Hulu launches its creative division, Greenhouse. Brandon Pierce will lead a new multi-disciplinary creative function to work with Hulu’s existing creative teams including designers,…