Tiny Red Wing, Minn.-home to Red Wing boots and Riedell ice and roller skates-is gearing up a pitch to its residents for a citywide fiber optic network, a plan that local cable provider, Charter Communications, already is pooh-poohing as being unnecessary-who needs all that speed?--for the city of just under [...]

After grilling companies about online behavioral tracking technology and their controversial usage of opt-out policies, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Telecommunications and Internet Subcommittee, said he wants future online privacy legislation to include a rule for such solutions to use opt-in policies instead. Rep. Markey and [...]

Legislators in the House Commerce Committee sent a letter this week to Embarq, wanting to know whether the independent telco informed customers when it tested behavioral Web-tracking technology from NebuAd earlier this year. NebuAd, of course, offers a data collection solution that can help carriers create targeted advertising for users by [...]

Eventually, it seems, we'll all make an appearance before a Senate or House subcommittee on something or other. This week's guest of honor in front of a Senate sub: Robert Dykes, the CEO of NebuAd, a company catching all kinds of flak for software that collects info on individual's Web [...]

Add another ISP to the list of those that have put off the implementation of NebuAd's controversial behavioral tracking ad platform. Last week Charter Communications said it was putting tests on hold after subscribers expressed concern about privacy issues; this week it’s CenturyTel’s turn to back off NebuAd.CenturyTel isn’t being [...]

Are Embarq & CenturyTel still tracking subscriber Web use?Charter Communications Tuesday said it had dropped its plans to test online advertising company NebuAd’s web-use tracking technology because of concerns raised by its customers. But two telcos that recently competed the testing are on the fence as to whether they plan [...]

The cable industry “has to get better at customer care,” as telcos continue to push into providing TV and broadband, Comcast Cable COO Steve Burke said during the opening session of SCTE Cable-Tec Expo in Philadelphia. “We have a long way to go,” he said.And, he said, the industry needs [...]

Comcast and its cable allies have lined up a series of broadcast ads belittling Verizon's vaunted FiOS network, claiming to have a larger fiber-optic network. What the ads don't point out is that while fiber is used in the network, it doesn't go to the home as is the case [...]

Talk about getting hit over the head for being upfront, Charter Communications' plans to track and sell customer web-surfing data--set to begin in June in four of the company's markets across the Read more[...]

Charter Communications posted a first quarter loss of $358 million, or 97 cents a share, compared to $381 million, or $1.04 a share a year ago and said its revenue rose 10 percent to $1.6 billion Read more[...]

Cable TV company Charter Communications said in its fourth-quarter 2007 earnings report that it voice subscriber base had increased by more than 155,000 to surpass the 1 million customers milestone. Read more[...]

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Cable TV companies Cablevision and Charter Communications both reported third-quarter net losses that were larger than the same quarter last year. Cablevision, whose investors recently rejected a bid Read more[...]