Sentences with phrase «from cable company»

Kweller's personal example: «When the switch to digital television happened, we got a box from the cable company that had to be plugged into our TV.

From cable company operations to government regulations we worry every day about the honesty of those around us and those in charge of our lives.

After all, if it cost less to stream HBO than to add it to your cable package, no one would buy it from their cable company.

But when a wide area has the power cut because of a structure fire, the amplifiers and other equipment used by the cable company on the line also lose power, rendering phone service from the cable company unusable, even in the event of an emergency.

Look at the introductory offers from your cable company and any local competitors you may have.

The closest thing I have to that is a dvr that I rent from the cable company.

The Wi - Fi set up was easy once we got one from our cable company but what's frustrating is that I can't open this «supposed» downloaded file for the novel.

Also, will it pick up my internet at home (I use an external modem from the cable company)?

This will allow you to get any premium cable channel from your cable company, wh..

So it might be worthwhile to spring for a landline or maybe a phone from your cable company.

The last thing I want to hear from the cable company, after it's taken them three hours to resolve my issue, is the upsell to the new service they want me to buy.

Having access to a lot of spectrum is particularly important for the 5G wireless offerings that AT&T and Verizon hope to launch to better compete with high - speed Internet services from cable companies.

After all, no one really wants or needs what are sure to be inferior Netflix clones from cable companies.

It's that last bit that has caused another wave of pushback from the cable companies and trade groups.

The program includes a commitment from the cable companies to offer to $ 10 a month broadband Internet access to homes with children that are eligible for free school lunches.

produce content directly sold to consumer (mostly, in this case, via payments from cable companies to channel content providers)

«Verizon's plan to acquire spectrum from the cable companies will allow Verizon to further dominate and control the nation's airwaves.»

«Verizon's plan to acquire spectrum from the cable companies will allow Verizon to further dominate and control the nation's airwaves,» Franken wrote in a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

Verizon claims: FiOS is faster than Internet service from cable companies.

EarthLink and Brand X wanted the same leg up from the cable companies.

Nix nevertheless claims that they can use their data in combination with tracking cookies, data from cable companies, and other media tools to target very specific audiences with messages that are persuasive because they are informed by behavioral science.

«As families continue to cut ties from their cable companies, our goal is to continue creating products for our customers that are both appealing and efficient,» said Schneider.

Not exact matches

Shares started to dip Monday after the company said it would not renew an agreement with cable network Epix, which means a long list of popular movies, including The Hunger Games, will disappear from the site at the end of this month.

The grand plan is that the company will eventually have content available on the full range of media platforms anywhere in the world, from traditional print publications and cable channels to snappy websites with streaming video suitable for hand - held devices, as well as downloadable digital magazines.

In a nutshell, this means that TV - related companies who rely on advertising revenue to support their businesses need to be re-valued by investors, and that even those who depend primarily on affiliate fees from cable distributors — a group that would include ESPN — have likely been over-valued.

Financial commitment from Asian investors has prompted an east coast - based technology company to reveal plans for a subsea telecommunications cable link from Perth to Singapore.

As streaming companies such as Netflix steal viewers from the cable providers like Comcast and Verizon Fios, the cable guys are trying to claw back viewers by creating their own streaming services.

Today, Volk - Weiss licenses programs to established «real - time,» or «linear,» cable channels, like HBO, Showtime, and Epix; streaming video on - demand channels, like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Seeso, NBCUniversal's new comedy subscription service (and increasingly, services from the linear channels); over-the-top-device companies like Roku, Microsoft (which makes Xbox), Sony (PlayStation), and Apple (Apple TV); and satellite - radio channel Sirius XM.

Mark Gordon, who is so sold on the Predictive Index that at all times he carries minigraphs of the test results from each of his staff members, says the testing came in particularly handy when, in late 1996, he merged with a network - cabling company.

If cable companies were once the gods who delivered TV content from their version of Mount Olympus, then the set - top box was their chosen instrument — one to which they alone had access and controlled.

The company, based in South Glens Falls, New York, sells starter packages from $ 377 that include all the necessary controllers, software and cables to get started.

The FCC appears determined to press on, however, and given chairman Wheeler's comments on the matter so far, it seems unlikely that he is going to be put off by a little grumbling from the cable and satellite companies.

TORONTO — HBO's plans to launch a stand - alone streaming service in the United States that will let viewers sidestep their cable company to watch popular shows like «Game of Thrones» and «True Detective» could be just a few years away from posing a similar threat to Canadian telecoms.

Since its cable network also provides Internet access, the company benefits from the adoption of streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, because they require a lot of bandwidth.

* But there is also a valid policy argument that companies that own both cable channels and cable wires have excessive power over pricing, and that blocking such a merger is a good use of anti-trust power — even if it's an argument you'd usually hear from the left side of the aisle.

After companies from cable giant Comcast to satellite TV titan AT&T, which owns DirecTV, reported their fourth quarter results, the total number of pay TV subscribers dropped 3.4 % from a year earlier, the highest rate of decline since the trend of cord cutting emerged in 2010, analysts at MoffettNathanson Research reported on Thursday.

There's an added level of urgency to Viacom's dispute with Dish, because if it agrees to accept lower rates from the satellite company, that could have a ripple effect on the deals it has with other satellite and cable distributors.

Having Viacom content helps Charter add video subscribers at a time of increasing competition from virtual streaming services like Hulu and DirecTV Now, while Viacom is still heavily dependent on cable and satellite companies for distribution, according to Evercore ISI.

The company's cable television unit has suffered from declining advertising sales.

Remember the time you had to call your cable company and you talked to that lovely gal from marketing?

LONDON, April 25 - U.S. cable company Comcast Corp submitted a 22 billion pound offer for pay - TV group Sky on Wednesday, challenging an already agreed but lower takeover bid from Rupert Murdoch's Fox.

The public has vehemently rejected its current proposal, which would allow Internet service companies to enact «fast lanes,» but if the agency decides to enforce net neutrality and reclassify broadband providers, it faces an avalanche of lawsuits from phone and cable companies.

The merger will allow AT&T / Time Warner to negotiate for even higher prices for Turner content than Time Warner could before the merger because the merged firm can credibly commit to walking away from a deal if, say, cable company A balks at the price.

owns everything from the servers (which is unique for most security companies) to the fiber - optic cables, based in Canada, transmitting the data.

The files revealed that Section 702 was being used to justify the PRISM program, which allowed the government to collect communications from tech companies through fiber - optic cables to then feed into a main database.

So Silent Circle owns everything from the servers (which is unique for most security companies) to the fiber - optic cables, based in Canada, transmitting the data.

With a vote to free boxes from the stranglehold of cable providers, the FCC may have triggered a battle between media companies of all stripes.

That means that if you subscribe to cable, you'll no longer have to rent a cable box from the company.

According to a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable, in January 2007, the company's representative in China, a U.S. citizen, was summoned and interrogated by the State Security Bureau about NTDTV staff reporting from its New York offices.

Comcast doesn't have its own wireless network so the service will run on a combination of leased airwaves from Verizon and the cable company's 16 million Wi - Fi hotspots.