A widening speed gap between phone companies’ DSL Internet services and cable-provided broadband lies behind continued market share gains by Comcast (CMCSA) and other cable firms, says a Federal Communications Commission report. The FCC on Wednesday released its fifth “Measuring Broadband America” report. One item in the report that might surprise some: “Actual speeds experienced by most ISPs’ subscribers are close to or exceed advertised speeds.”
Look for the gigabit broadband public relations war to heat up in 2016. Comcast (CMCSA) last week announced the start of service for its first customer with 1 gigabit-per-second service provided through a cable industry standard called Docsis 3.1. The service’s launch is in Comcast’s headquarters city of Philadelphia. The speed boost comes mainly from a network software upgrade, not hardware. Comcast’s move comes after Alphabet (GOOGL) said it’s
Cable TV, of course, did not predate Benjamin Franklin. But had technology evolved faster, the American statesman and scientist could have said only three things are for certain: death, taxes and rising monthly cable TV bills. That’s right, cable TV bills are going up again, says a Bloomberg report, which surveyed Comcast (CMCSA), Time Warner Cable (TWC) and Cablevision Systems (CVC), as well as satellite TV broadcaster Dish Network (DISH) and