Dish Gets Ready to Serve Up Broadband and a Giant DVR

A pre-CES leak reveals some cool stuff, but not the Web-based cable killer some of you are rooting for.
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Clearwire Signs Deals With Sprint, Makes Debt Payment

Clearwire Corp. signed a four-year deal with Sprint Nextel Corp. valued at as much as $1.6 billion, giving the wireless-broadband provider breathing room as it builds out a new fourth-generation network.

Clearwire May Skip Big Debt Payment

Clearwire Corp. is considering skipping a big debt payment that comes due in two weeks, a decision that could prove a turning point for a company that had hoped to cover the country with wireless broadband service.

Wait a Minute. Does Google Really Want to Be a Cable Guy?

Running a cable TV operation is an expensive, messy, un-Googley business. Which is why there’s no way Larry Page is going to do that, says Sanford Bernstein.
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QOTD: Cable Guy Actually Broadband Guy

The video business has its challenges. It’s still a significant part of our business, so we’re not abandoning it by any means. We do see ourselves, and the mantra inside the company is to think of ourselves, as an ISP.

Charter Communications CEO Mike Lovett during his company’s earnings call yesterday, explaining that the cable TV provider would increasingly look to broadband revenues

Comcast Net Rises 4.7 Percent; TV Subscriber Losses Slow

Comcast Corp.’s third-quarter profit rose 4.7 percent as it slowed defections in pay-TV subscribers for the fourth straight quarter.

FCC Approves Subsidy-Fund Overhaul

Federal regulators approved an overhaul of an $8 billion federal phone-subsidy program Thursday to make more federal money available to fund high-speed Internet service in rural America.

FCC Sued Over “Net Neutrality”

A fresh legal salvo was fired Wednesday over recently published federal “net neutrality” rules restricting Internet providers from blocking or slowing traffic.

President Obama’s LinkedIn Town Hall: The Other Silicon Valley Jobs Event

Here’s an idea to get more jobs for the citizens of the U.S.of A.: Fantastic high-speed wireless access!
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Microsoft Teams With Former President Clinton on Education

The software giant wants to get one million low-income students using the Internet, and is teaming with the former president’s philanthropic organization to do it.
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