Tag: centurylink
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CenturyLink Wants to Team Up With DIRECTV NOW, PlayStation Vue, or Others
For months now we have heard that CenturyLink and DIRECTV NOW had been in talks to let CenturyLink resell DIRECTV NOW. When CenturyLink ended up launching its own live TV streaming service with Cloud DVR and local channels many assumed that these plans had come to an end. Now it looks as though CenturyLink is…
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After Recent Lawsuits CenturyLink Makes Changes to Its Internet Pricing
Recently CenturyLink found itself facing lawsuits from the Attorney General of Minnesota and a class action lawsuit in Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Colorado. At their core all of these lawsuits are about CenturyLink’s billing practices. Now it seems that CenturyLink is making changes to its service to address some of the complaints. Yesterday DSL…
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CenturyLink Plans to Start Sharing Your Personal Information
If you are a CenturyLink customer, you may have recently received a card in the mail from CenturyLink. This card describes its plans to sell your “Customer Proprietary Network Information” (CPNI). This information describes the “types of services and features you use, the way (CenturyLink) provides these services to you, as well as calling and…
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Minnesota Attorney General Says CenturyLink TV Pricing Is Deceptive
Have you ever been confused by the pricing on TV listings? The deal sounds great but then there is tons of fine print with fees, taxes, and other stuff that makes you scratch your head? Minnesota’s Attorney General agrees and has filed a lawsuit against CenturyLink. In the lawsuit the Minnesota Attorney General says, “These…
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CenturyLink Releases a LG Streaming Player For Their Live TV Streaming Service
A couple of weeks ago CenturyLink announced their live TV streaming service. CenturyLink Stream is a new service from CenturyLink that delivers instant access to live and on-demand sports, news, and entertainment programming, including Latino and local channels. It’s available today on Roku players and Roku TVs in the U.S. The service will also work on phones…
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CenturyLink Just Launched Their Live TV Streaming Service
After months of rumors CenturyLink today announced their live TV streaming service. CenturyLink Stream is a new service from CenturyLink that delivers instant access to live and on-demand sports, news and entertainment programming, including Latino and local channels. It’s available today on Roku players and Roku TVs in the U.S. The service will also work on phones…
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CenturyLink to Launch a Live TV Streaming Service This Summer
Everyone is rushing to get in on the live TV streaming craze. Not only has AT&T, DISH, YouTube, Fubo, and Hulu jumped in, but Comcast and Verizon also have services in the works. This week it was reported that CenturyLink will join the growing list of services that want to offer a live TV option…
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CenturyLink Moves Forwards With Plans For a Sling TV Competitor
For some time now CenturyLink has played around with the idea of their own live TV streaming service. They even at one point talked about reselling DIRECTV NOW in an effort to replace jump start the plan. Now it seems CenturyLink will build their own live TV streaming service using the Sling TV model. This…
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Are You Ready For One More Live TV Streaming Service? CenturyLink Hopes So…
This week the live TV streaming market got a little more crowded with the addition of Google’s live TV streaming service YouTube TV. We even heard recently that both Verizon and Comcast have live TV streaming services in the works. Both plan to release live TV streaming services by the end of 2017. Now CenturyLink…
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The Consolidation of Internet Service Providers Continues – CenturyLink & Level 3 Communications Move Forward With a Merger
Last October CenturyLink and Level 3 Communications agreed to a $34 billion dollar merger. Now they are going through the slow process of FCC approval. Ohio, Utah and Nevada are the first states to sign off on the merger of broadband providers CenturyLink and Level 3 Communications, according to CenturyLink . “We continue to believe…