Tag: Broadband

AT&T’s “Sponsored Data” program already charges businesses, often in the ad industry, for the right to deliver services without counting against customers’ mobile data caps. AT&T could potentially charge online video streaming services for exemptions from the caps imposed on AT&T home broadband subscribers as well or exempt its own online services from caps. Though AT&T doesn’t Read More …

To many in the cable and broadband businesses, the invisible hand of Netflix has been apparent in the failed Comcast-Time Warner Cable combination; in likely restrictions on the merger between AT&T and DirecTV; and in the Obama administration’s embrace of net neutrality, to cite just three prominent examples. Source: How Netflix Keeps Finding Itself on Read More …

AT&T and DirecTV are pushing back against conditions other companies want to impose on their proposed merger. “Opponents continue to propose a laundry list of additional conditions that are unrelated to this transaction, unnecessary to address any transaction-specific harm, or both,” the companies said in a filing posted by the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday. Source: Read More …

One of the most-watched digital reports of the year is out—Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends—and it shows just how much room mobile advertising has to grow. Meeker runs digital investments for top Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, and every year she releases a comprehensive breakdown of the entire Web landscape. Source: Read More …