By: Jeff Simmermon at 12:00 pm
Head End: How Cable Gets to Your House From Space
You could be forgiven for thinking that cable operators just buried wires under the dirt 30 years ago and have just been collecting checks ever since. Everyone’s entitled to be wrong sometimes, and it’s forgivable.
After working here for a…
Categories: Broadband Penetration/Deployment, Content Delivery, Cool Stuff, Customer Care, Digital Cable, Fact-Checking, In the Community, New York City, What's New
By: Jeff Simmermon at 04:30 pm
What The Internet Looks Like: Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors
Before I worked here, I thought the Internet was this fascinating substance that just kind of poured out of various rectangular faucets and onto my face. I quickly learned otherwise.
This documentary piece is about the hub at 60…
Categories: Broadband Penetration/Deployment, Content Delivery, Cool Stuff, Fact-Checking, In the Community, New York City
By: Seth Arenstein at 05:52 pm
Why Connect to Compete and Broadband Adoption Matter
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s announcement today of several new parts for the broadband adoption program Connect to Compete is a welcome addition to a multi-faceted effort to get more Americans connected to broadband.
Previously, the Chairman announced that a…
Categories: Broadband Penetration/Deployment, Corporate Social Responsibility, Fact-Checking, Future of the Industry, What's New
By: Seth Arenstein at 12:26 pm
Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group Issues First Report
In July 2010, my colleague, Fernando Laguarda, wrote here:
“Sometimes if you ask enough smart people what they think, you actually get good ideas. And when enough smart people are sharing lots of good ideas, there’s even the…
Categories: Broadband Penetration/Deployment, Corporate Social Responsibility, Customer Care, Fact-Checking, Future of the Industry, In the Community, What's New
By: Jeff Simmermon at 12:58 pm
The Sun Is Screwing With Your TV Again
It’s that time of year again — the sun will be screwing around with cable reception until sometime around October 9th, 2011. The good news is that it should be fairly brief. The bad news is that…
Categories: Cool Stuff, Fact-Checking, In the Community
By: Travis Triggs at 01:01 pm
Grab That Prize With a Metal Claw: Using Keywords In Your Job Search
Your job search and that claw game at the bowling alley have a lot in common. There’s two ways to play:
1) Put your money in there and try to grab anything at all, over and over until time…
Categories: Cool Stuff, Fact-Checking, How-To, What's New
By: Jeff Simmermon at 03:59 pm
FCC Publishes Results of ‘Measuring Broadband America’
If you follow this blog closely, you may recall that back in February we mentioned an FCC-led broadband speed test as a part of the National Broadband Plan.
From that very post:
This test expects
…
Categories: Broadband Penetration/Deployment, Content Delivery, Cool Stuff, Customer Care, Fact-Checking, Future of the Industry
By: Jeff Simmermon at 04:35 pm
Known Issues and Squashing Bugs in the iPad App
We launched a really big update to our iPad app last week, featuring a lot of new features, including Remote DVR manager, a grid guide, and more.
This iteration has a lot of features that our customers…
Categories: Content Delivery, Cool Stuff, Customer Care, Fact-Checking, Future of the Industry, What's New
By: Jeff Simmermon at 09:04 pm
Fascinating Anonymous Thread From A Cable TV Programming Exec
I saw a particularly interesting thread in the Reddit’s IAMA forums a while back — a thread from a person who claimed to be a TV Exec who handles programming at a cable network. He/she claims to…
Categories: Cool Stuff, Fact-Checking, Programming
By: Jeff Simmermon at 05:27 pm
A Good Argument Against A La Carte Pricing
As the Internet face of a large cable company, I hear a lot of stuff, over and over again. One of the most persistent complaints/questions I hear is “why can’t I just pay for the channels I want to…
Categories: Content Delivery, Fact-Checking, Programming
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