OK, this is a story that will only appeal to Wolverines, Badgers, Nittany Lions, Hoosiers and the other fans of the nation's best college football conference, the Big Ten (You SEC, ACC and Big East fans can skip over this): Charter Cable--the bane of many sports fans, especially in the Midwest--finally [...]

Consumer watchdog Common Cause and three other advocacy groups want New York's Public Service Commission to temporarily freeze Verizon's much ballyhooed fiber optic rollout in New York City until safety concerns about the network's installation are resolved. A week ago Verizon agreed to conduct safety inspections of other FiOS installations in the state [...]

Cablevision has gotten a lot of press lately, not all good, not all bad. The company even did a dog and pony show for Wall Street investors earlier this month, trying to patch up some rough spots with major shareholders. One of the newest -- and largest -- shareholders, hedge [...]

Regional ISP Frontier Communications is telling customers in its Rochester, N.Y., market that they'll be allowed 5 GB of bandwidth a month, or they'll have to face the consequences. Although the company hasn't yet decided just what those consequences may be, they've posted a notice to their website warning of service [...]

Verizon Communications will conduct safety inspections of all FiOS installations completed in New York before Aug. 1, after the New York Public Service Commission uncovered electrical code violations during routine inspections of some deployments. The carrier said its installations are safe and that there have been no known incidents of safety hazards, [...]

After a summer which saw cable companies gang up on telcos and their service offerings in broadcast ads, Verizon has responded in kind, telling northern New Jersey residents that it is time to “pull the plug on their disco-era cable TV company” and try out its new FTTH FiOS network.Verizon is targeting Comcast [...]

Cablevision CEO James Dolan, who traditionally has played the company’s operations close to his vest—and has made a career of creating minor dust ups with Wall Street and his biggest investors—will be meeting with some of the cable company’s largest shareholders next week in an effort to garner support for [...]

AT&T is planning to offer customers Internet access at specific speeds rather than its current offerings that promise speeds "up to" theoretical maximums, says Robert Quinn, a senior VP at the telco. "When we provide broadband services based on speed, we will do so in discrete tiers that are disclosed [...]

Madison Dearborn Partners, one of the private equity firms involved in the pending acquisition of Bell Canada Enterprises, is attempting to raise about $10 billion for its buyout fund, but had raised just $4 billion as of mid-April, according to The Deal.com. This report and others point out that times [...]

The New York State Public Service Commission has approved the video franchise agreement Verizon Communications forged with New York City officials to allow the telco to sell video and triple play services throughout the city. Verizon said in a statement that the company already has begun taking orders for FiOS [...]

Windjammer Communications—a combination of private-equity firm MAST Capital Management and Communications Construction Services (CCS)—is now the proud owner of 80,000 former Time Warner Cable subscribers spread across some 125 head-ends in 25 states … at least it will be once the deal is wrapped in the fourth quarter.TWC said it [...]

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 [...]

Some things are just too good to last, and all-you-can-eat broadband might be one of them-at least if you are a customer of Time Warner Cable. The cable TV company is now testing metered Internet Read more[...]

Verizon Communications tried to get a restraining order against Time Warner Cable to cease the TV ads that Verizon said misrepresented the telco's FiOS fiber network upgrade and TV service, but the Read more[...]

Three cable TV companies--Comcast Corp, Time Warner Cable and Brighthouse Networks--are suing Verizon Communications for what they say are anti-competitive marketing practices that make it difficult Read more[...]

Time Warner Cable will begin a trial of usage-based billing for broadband access, according to a report that first appeared at Broadband Reports, which possesses a copy of a TWC memo discussing the Read more[...]