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Internet technology has disrupted any number of existing businesses and revenue models, and constantly threatens to disrupt a wider number of businesses.

There's just one catch -- Dish hasn't copied a thing. Rather, the satellite service provider has gotten into trouble for giving consumers an easy way to skip commercials.

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The city of Boston says Comcast's math does not add up, and that it should still be able to regulate basic rates.

During the annual National Cable & Telecommunications Association show, Reuters reports Julius Genachowski voiced his support for broadband Internet plans that charge customers based on how often they use the service.

Cox Communications EVP & CTO Kevin Hart explains what's at the top of his to-do list and offers an update on the company's TV Everywhere and IP video strategies The blogs and comments are the opinions only of the writers and do not reflect the views of Light Reading.

NBCUniversal announced Wednesday that it has given Susan Malfa oversight of ad sales for Style Media, to go along with Bravo and Oxygen Media and Women at NBCU.

Video from Leading Content Providers, Including Verizon FiOS, Comcast and Others, to Give Customers Choice of Entertainment on Mobile Devices Verizon Wireless today introduced viewdini, an innovative portal that creates a new entertainment choice for consumers by making it simple to search and view movies, television shows, and other video on ... (more)

Usage-based pricing critics inside the Beltway were quick to criticize or try to correct Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski's Tuesday after he gave a shout-out to price experimentation as an important business model.

The Federal Communications Commission is drawing the ire of Netflix for its support of tiered broadband Internet plans, which FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said Tuesday would be "healthy and beneficial" for broadband and high-tech industries.

Boston - Cable operators' share of the business services market could double to as much as 21% in the next five years, according to a panel discussion at The Cable Show Tuesday.

Ian Blaine, CEO of thePlatform, explains how the media publishing firm is backing Comcast's X1 platform and what cable needs to do to get TV Everywhere to the next level To see the industry's first PUMA6mg 24x8 CPE demonstration by visiting Hitron's Meeting Suite.

Looking to give subscribers a new reason to not drop home-phone service, Comcast is enhancing its Xfinity Voice service to allow free calls over Wi-Fi and other wireless data networks using mobile devices or PCs.

Boston - Verizon Wireless and Comcast used The Cable Show General Session Tuesday to pull a new product rabbit out of their collective hats, a new mobile search portal dubbed viewdini.

In order to complete a controversial $3.6 billion deal between a group of cable companies - including Comcast - Verizon Wireless will have to sell valuable high-speed spectrum in 12 markets.

Comcast , Cablevision , Time Warner Cable , Bright House Networks, and Cox Communications, say that they will let their high-speed Internet customers share each other's Wi-Fi networks in metropolitan areas as a value-added service.

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Comcast will eventually bring the X1 "cloud-based" personalized interactive program guide to nearly 8 million existing set-top boxes -- as well as other platforms, including IP set-tops, chief technology officer Tony Werner said.

Entropic Communications is touting that it supplied the system-on-a-chip used in Technicolor's adapter for Comcast's Skye on Xfinity high-definition TV videoconferencing service, and also that it is integrating its silicon and software with Comcast Reference Design Kit for IP-based gateway devices.

Five major cable operators are teaming to provide each other's high-speed data customers reciprocal access to metro WiFi networks, totaling over 50,000 hotspots.