The Fox Network , currently offered as a local broadcast TV station, could become a cable channel if U.S. courts rule that Aereo is lawful, COO Chase Carey has said.   Given the financial stakes, Fox and other broadcast networks logically will threaten the gravest losses possible to sway opinion. Television station owners continued to have substantial success in 2012 in growing an increasingly important source of revenue: the fees paid by cable and satellite systems to [...]

With streaming OTA TV provider Aereo having so far beaten back broadcasters suing to stop the service, at least one broadcaster has decided that their best course of action going forward is — pouting. News Corporation COO Chase Carey today threatened that if Aereo wins their battle against broadcasters, News Corporation will pull Fox content off of the airwaves and simply move everything to cable. Reiterating their belief that Aereo is “stealing” content (even though [...]

Some five million U.S. homes now are  zero TV households, meaning that although they may or may not own a TV, they don’t use them. according to the Nielsen Co. The number of such households is up from two million in 2007.  In 2012, the cable, satellite and telecom video entertainment service providers added just 46,000 video customers collectively, according to SNL Kagan. That is down from net additions of about 974,000 new households added in 2011.  [...]

California Assembly Member and Los Angeles representative Bonnie Lowenthal has introduced a bill called “The Right to Know Act of 2013” (pdf). Her bill would require all California provide consumers, upon request, a list of all user data collected and precisely who that data is being shared with or sold to. “By modernizing the requirements, consumers have a right to know not just how their basic information may have been used for junk mail, but [...]

Last week we noted that a rural cable operator by the name of CMA Communications has been injecting their own ads into user streams and on top of websites — even those that traditionally have no ads. The move is only the latest by a series of ISPs whose lust for revenues appear to exceed their collective gray matter. Ars Technica has a follow up piece on CMA’s practices that notes the company has changed [...]

My favorite Margaret Thatcher quip: “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money. My favorite corollary:  ”The government has no money of its own; it’s all your money.”

Last week we noted that a rural cable operator by the name of CMA Communications has been injecting their own ads into user streams and on top of websites — even those that traditionally have no ads. The move is only the latest by a series of ISPs whose lust for revenues appear to exceed their collective gray matter. Ars Technica has a follow up piece on CMA’s practices that notes the company has changed [...]

Source: ITU-T ITU-T Y.1564, also sometime called (by mistake) “EtherSAM”  - which refers to the draft of Y.1764 named  Y.156sam, but while these names are in some cases used interchangeably there are some important differences between them. In this article we will refer to the rectified Y.1564. Y.1564 is a QoS and network performance ITU-T Ethernet-based service test methodology. This out-of-service testing procedures test service turn-up, installation and troubleshooting of Ethernet-based services with the goal [...]

The new Netflix “ISP Speed Index” shows that Google Fiber is the best ISP in the United States, in terms of supporting Netflix streaming.  At 3.45 Mbps, Google Fiber in the U.S. provides the highest average Netflix streaming bitrate anywhere Netflix is available, slightly increasing its average over last month, Netflix says.

With MetroPCS shareholders voting April 12 on whether to approve the merger with T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom is apparently looking into ways to sweeten the deal. Though the deal has received approval from U.S. regulators, MetroPCS shareholders have become increasingly vocal in their opposition. In response, Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of T-Mobile, may offer new terms to appease the agitators. The deal was announced back in October and has been steadily progressing since then, with [...]