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Last summer, I wrote about the mind-numbingly tedious battle between Comcast and Bloomberg over whether Bloomberg’s news channel was being exiled to television Siberia in most of the important Designated Market Areas or DMAs. Bloomberg filed a pretty well-documented complaint … Continue reading →

OnSIP, the virtual PBX service that we use, has a web page that allows you to test your VoIP connection. It simulates a voice conservation to OnSIP’s remotes, measuring packet loss and jitter or variation in transit times. My performance … Continue reading →

The  200+ page response  to Bloomberg TV’s complaint that it had been exiled in Comcast’s lineup from the major players news neighborhoods —Fox, CNN, CNBC, etc.— has been submitted to the FCC. The lawyers must have had loads of fun … Continue reading →

The FCC’s cableCARD initiative was supposed to crack open the proprietary set-top box provided by the cable operators and give consumers more box choices. The idea was that you would purchase a PCMIA card for decrypting the cable signal and … Continue reading →

When Comcast acquired NBC from General Electric, one of the conditions in the FCC order approving the acquisition was that this media conglomerate must carry in their existing news neighborhoods “all independent news and business news channels”—like, for example, Bloomberg’s … Continue reading →

I didn’t think there was much to say about FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker’s bold decision to leave the FCC for NBC Universal. Shocking? No really. As we all know Baker voted to approve Comcast’s acquisition of NBC a few months … Continue reading →

Back in November 2010, Zoom Telephonics, makers of cable modems, filed a complaint with the FCC against Comcast. The modem manufacturer cited anti-competitive practices in Comcast’s new Physical and Environment (P&E) acceptance testing of their modems. According to Zoom’s filing, … Continue reading →

Yesterday, Netflix released bandwidth data measuring how well leading ISPs do at transmitting its HD videos to subscribers. All the usual suspects were listed, but it’s interesting, although not altogether surprising, that cable companies grabbed the top spots over the … Continue reading →

To everything there is a season. A time to propose Open Internet rules. A time to seek relief from these arbitrary and capricious rules in the courts, specifically the DC Court of Appeals. Let’s say it’s not a complete surprise … Continue reading →

After burning off my holiday calories shoveling out of Snowmageddon 2010, I was ready to settle down with a good book and a flagon of mulled cider. Perhaps I was still looking for more Sisyphean exercises, so instead of Harry … Continue reading →