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Post Its $3.6 Billion Cable Deal, Verizon Puts Brakes On FiOS Expansion

Dec 9, 2011 8:21 AM

Last week, Verizon announced a $3.6 billion deal to buy wireless spectrum from cable operators and resell their pay-TV services. This week, Lowell McAdam, Verizon’s CEO, started to lay out how that deal will impact other services operated and sold by the carrier: it looks like it will not continue…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, IPTV, Satellite, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Companies, Comcast, Netflix, Time Warner, Verizon, directv, fios

Vancouver 2010: Watching The ‘Everywhere’ Olympics From 30,000 Feet

Feb 15, 2010 5:15 AM

Through some quirks of scheduling, I got my first taste of Olympics action on a laptop through in-flight wireless—not the big screen in our living room—and watched the winning ski jump late at night on demand using the NBC Olympics iPhone app. The 2010 Winter Olympics may not be the…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Sports, Digital Olympics, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Cable & Telecom, VOD, Mobile, Companies, NBC Universal, authentication, directv

DirecTV Launches Remote DVR Scheduling App

Jan 21, 2008 3:08 PM

DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) has launched a mobile application which its subscribers can use to schedule their DVR remotely. Sky has been offering this in UK for a while now, while Tivo-scheduling-on-Verizon-Wireless costs $2 a month. DirecTV’s service is free. Users can do it via the DirecTV.com web site, but the…

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