Cox

Cox Giving Up Completely on Wireless Business

Ina Fried in News on November 16, 2011 at 1:07 pm PT

The cable operator, which earlier this year stopped operating its own cellular network and began reselling Sprint service, now plans to exit the cellphone business entirely.

Cox Abandoning Effort for Own 3G Network; Sticking With Sprint Reseller Deal Instead

Ina Fried in News on May 24, 2011 at 4:33 pm PT

The cable company says the move will allow it to offer service faster and reach its goal of offering wireless service to half its customer base this year. Cox declined to comment on what it plans to do with its spectrum or how much it had spent on the effort to build its own network.

Netflix Hands Out Its ISP Report Cards. Clearwire, Please Get This One Signed by Your Parents.

Peter Kafka in Media on January 27, 2011 at 11:01 am PT

Time Warner Cable and Comcast appear to do just fine in Reed Hastings’s rankings.

Comcast Unit Finds New Use for the iPhone: Getting Work Done

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 30, 2010 at 12:45 pm PT

While plenty of people are using their iPhones and iPads to watch video, a unit of Comcast is betting that the devices can also play a role in helping professional video get onto the Internet. Though a niche product, it is the kind of application that many expect to see more of as businesses find ways of incorporating mobile devices into their office workflow.

Better Stop Holding Your Breath for a Verizon iPhone

John Paczkowski in News on October 19, 2009 at 6:57 am PT

If Verizon is in talks with Apple to become the second U.S. carrier for the iPhone, they evidently aren’t going very well. How else to explain the iPhone-slagging ad campaign for Verizon’s forthcoming Android handset, Droid?

Voices

Relationship Status of RIAA and ISPs: It’s Complicated

Sarah McBride, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 26, 2009 at 1:11 pm PT

At a digital music panel in Nashville this week, executives from AT&T and Comcast created a furor by saying they were passing along warnings to customers that the RIAA says are illegally uploading music files onto the Internet. Later, the companies tried to calm the outrage erupting in the blogosphere by harrumphing they weren’t cutting off Internet access to those people–or in the case of Cox, hardly ever cutting it off.

Cable Guys Plan Their Own Hulus: Anyone Interested in “Authentication” or “Entitlement”?

Peter Kafka in Media on February 20, 2009 at 1:50 pm PT

Both Comcast and Timer Warner Cable want to give their subscribers Web access to more shows than they can currently get–at least legally. But the two companies have competing plans, based on different technologies and philosophies.