BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK If you’re an American pay-TV provider, what do you want first: the good news or the bad? The good news is that nine out of 10 American households have a TV subscription with operators like Comcast, AT&T, Dish or DirectTV, and that they get plenty of use out of it. In fact, [...]
BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK It didn’t take long for Apple to follow Amazon’s launch of its Cloud Player with the announcement of its new iCloud service, which sparked more than normal interest thanks in part to Steve Jobs emerging briefly from his medical leave. Given the emergence and popularity of connected devices such as iPads and [...]
BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK We’re already getting used to data caps on our mobile Internet usage, so AT&T’s decision to put a cap on data usage for its DSL and U-verse broadband services should not come as too much of a surprise. In fact, Comcast capped its broadband service way back in 2008. As in the [...]
By: Jeff Barak The real danger of this month’s US federal appeals court ruling rejecting the authority of the Federal Communications Commission to regulate the Internet has little to do with the threat to net neutrality and whether service providers will suddenly soon start charging consumers extra for YouTube access. The sting in the tail [...]
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