Sentences with phrase «cable companies do»

In fact, most cable companies do not use fiber cables at all.

That is what cable companies do.

Or Aereo will start paying retransmission fees like the cable companies do.

This is exactly what cable companies do with their bundling deals.

The cable company doesn't own its own wireless airwave licenses, so the new service relies on a 2011 deal Comcast struck with Verizon to lease cellular airwaves.

If I tell my cable company I don't like paying as much as I do but don't do anything about it, they're not going to lower my subscription fees.

Cable TV bills are included, so cardholders who receive phone service through their cable company do receive the bonus.

Not exact matches

Like most cable companies, Comcast also seems to be doing not a bad job of shifting customers to lower - priced «skinny bundles» so that it doesn't lose them completely.

These days, the voracious demands of social media and cable news, make it impossible for media companies to do that anymore.

Slaight told him cable giant Rogers had been sniffing around a six - year - old multi-platform media company called GlassBox TV, which was doing digital publishing, video - on - demand and specialty TV.

In the second group are existing cable and satellite companies, who will be making a number of arguments about why this opening up isn't necessary — including the argument that they are already opening up themselves and therefore don't need the FCC to barge in and wreck things.

People can currently do some basics like using their voices to ask Amazon's Echo home speaker to play the Beatles» A Hard Day's Night or navigate automated phone trees when talking to your cable company.

Corus — an integrated media company with specialty TV channels of its own, including the W Network, YTV and Treehouse — was spun out of the Shaw cable business back in 1999, when the Shaws didn't think so - called convergence strategies made much sense.

The company will likely partner with cable and satellite providers, much as it did with telcos for the iPhone.

For instance, the company could do away with a cable - based charging port, though Jason Snell, editor of Apple news site and podcast Six Colors, and former MacWorld editor, said such a change would make the devices more difficult to repair since most basic repairs require connecting the iPhone to an external computer.

The cable company has plenty of reasons to do so: not only does Netflix compete with its own video offerings, it also clogs up a lot of its network (it accounts for an estimated one - third of all Internet traffic).

I remember the first deal we did for a million dollars, buying another cable company.

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.

And while you can do mundane things while waiting on hold when you call the cable, phone or electric company, it really is a) annoying and b) the classic waste of time.

Cable companies like Comcast, for example, insist that customers personally deliver their cable boxes before closing an account, and often require them to wait for hours at service centers in order to do so.

On Wednesday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler proposed a new technology mandate that would require satellite and cable TV providers to disaggregate or separate their services so that a few companies could repackage them as their own without negotiating for content rights like everybody else in the market does today.

As a result, Netflix is in effect a competitor to those companies» on - demand cable TV services, which charge on a pay - per - view basis rather than offering a flat monthly fee like Netflix does.

Despite the fact that Disney did not cut its earnings forecasts, despite the fact that cable subscriptions are only a small portion of Disney's otherwise great businesses and despite the fact the company is buying back stock hand over fist, the markets have still chosen to abandon Disney.

But, over the years, the telco companies and the cable companies have written law after law after law to make it illegal for that mayor to do that.

So does another dominant cable company, Charter.

«If you look at the business model and the way the cable companies buy content, I don't think it will be that big of a deal.»

Imagine if your cable company still gave you the same basic channels and features they did 20 years ago but continually increased your rate.

You could also take some of the products of these programs out of the public domain (if they are in the public domain) and charge royalties (or higher royalties) to cable and digital TV and radio services, satellite radio services, etc. (which are required to carry Corporation for Public Broadcasting content under current regulations) and might even get those companies to do so by contract with PBS, NPR, etc. rather than from the government, if this was authorized by law (I don't know if it is or not, but this wouldn't take much political clout to get done).

The online activist group Color of Change is targeting ten members of the Congressional Black Caucus for opposing net neutrality and «doing the bidding of big phone and cable companies.»

The study doesn't cover every cable viewer in America: While the Federal Communications Commission requires networks to file reports on political ad buys, it doesn't require cable companies to do the same.

In «real life,» we're often held accountable by pure economic necessity (i.e., if we don't show up for our nine - to - five, we'll become homeless) or an observant partner, roommate, or cable company («I'm sorry, but why don't you have your share of this month's electric bill?»).

The FCC wants to destroy net neutrality and give big cable companies control over what we see and do It's no longer just your clicks they want, it's your time and attention.

As good as Paquin and company play it, this is another quality pay - cable show that does have a secret handshake.

The history of The Weinstein Company sitting on movies and then quietly dumping them in limited releases is well known, and while we don't know the exact behind - the - scenes story of the WWII drama «Suite Francaise,» the movie is finally coming off the Weinstein shelf and going straight to cable.

If you don't believe me, wait until you have a bad customer experience with your cable company and then take to Twitter about it — If you don't get a response from someone in corporate within 24 hours, I owe you a coffee.

Hyundai is like the cable company - once you are a customer they don't care.

The buying spree did not stop here as the company has also picked up a stake in another company Journalism Online — a brainchild of three enterprising individuals, L. Gordon Crovitz, ex Wall Street Journal Publisher, Steven Brill and ex cable exec Leo Hindery Jr..

Cable companies, which is why I don't have cable anymore.

Although the 40 - year - old earns a healthy $ 75,000 a year working for a cable company in Hamilton, Ont., he doesn't have much left after paying child support and his mortgage.

I do owe the cable company 150bux, but i'll pay that when I get annoyed by them enough.

Secondly, regular cable television will require that a work technician from the company come to your home to do an installation.

The debt settlement company will probably let them keep expenses they probably don't need like cable TV, eating out, maybe even the jet skis and BMW etc, etc (assuming the customer disclosed everything) while the debt settlement sales person encourages them to enroll in debt settlement as long as their is some justification and some degree of hardship.

Sure, your garden - variety lender does not have the power to garnish your wages or levy your bank account, but all creditors from loan sharks to credit unions and cable companies are interested in one thing: collecting as much as they can from debtors, as soon as they can.

It doesn't hurt that vue does away with the traditional lease box cable companies most always shakle you to.

But it does nt matter if it's Nintendo or Nokia, most companies warn against using unlicensed accessories, especially chargers, cables, and batteries.

I do appreciate Nintendo's willingness to leave certain areas to those who know them better, like the streaming services and cable companies who are participating in Nintendo TVii, but this is a physical accessory that should have been more involved in their major plan.

It's better than the NES Mini, sure, but considering that Nintendo has tacitly admitted it was an issue it's surprising that the company didn't go all the way and make the cables as long as the original's.

Ever since the company first wooed me as a kid with the Nintendo 64, I was always ready to buy into whatever the latest Nintendo hype happened to be (and hey, that's still true — I did buy a Wii U after all), so by the time Four Swords Adventures came around I had already invested in a couple of GCN - to - GBA cables.

Why do companies (particularly, it seems, phone and cable companies) punish brand loyalty, rather than reward it?

Obviously the networks, newspaper and magazine publishing companies, and cable news could do a lot better.