Tag: Broadband

The European Union unveiled a signature plan to unite the region’s fragmented online markets and crack down on possible abuses by U.S. Internet firms, a move policy makers hope will boost the economy and help spawn Internet giants to rival Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. The plans, six months in the making, are a cornerstone Read More …

Time Warner Cable Inc (TWC.N) is open to merger discussions with Charter Communications Inc (CHTR.O) following a failed $45 billion bid by Comcast Corp CMSA.O, according to people familiar with the matter. Friendly negotiations between the two companies would be in sharp contrast to their acrimonious exchanges in 2013 and early 2014 that ended with Read More …

The scale of the issue is that this is a factor of a thousand beyond where we are today. While the connection into people’s homes is within a factor of 2, the big area of concern is with cloud data centres and the big carriers. Peering points are getting congested and videos are getting thinned, Read More …

Comcast Corp. on Friday ended its plans to acquire Time Warner Cable Inc., as increasing pressure from regulators prompted the end of the $45.2 billion deal. “Today, we move on. Of course, we would have liked to bring our great products to new cities, but we structured this deal so that if the government didn’t Read More …

Comcast is reportedly dropping its $45 billion plan to merger with Time Warner Cable amid signs of opposition from federal regulators.The report from Bloomberg News on Thursday comes after heightened scrutiny from both the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which have shown concern about the combination of the nation’s two largest cable Read More …