Sentences with phrase «since cable companies»

Ultimately, at the pocketbook level it could have been consumers who would have been hit by a value - for - signal program, since the cable companies threatened to pass on any extra costs, estimated by the cable industry at C$ 10 ($ 10) on customers» monthly bills.

The asset looked promising, since cable companies provided a steady revenue stream to carry the channels, which meant Stingray wouldn't have to chase after consumers.

In that case, Videotron will soon be competing with Wind, as well as the Big Three, which will eventually turn into a not - very - fair competition since the cable company has relatively deep pockets and — more importantly — 700 MHz spectrum.

Not exact matches

The free 5 Mbps service must also have cable and phone companies worried, since many of their own customers are paying dearly for these relatively archaic and outdated speeds.

It's been four months since Rogers and Shaw, Canada's two biggest cable companies, officially launched Shomi, a Netflix - like streaming service that delivers on - demand TV shows and movies.

Since HBO first went on the air in 1972, it has been tied down by cable companies who require viewers to pay for expensive packages even if they just wanted the HBO channel.

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.

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.

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.

Since the CPPIB's mandate is to get a specific rate of return, buying a cable company makes sense.

Two years after the Annenberg - Gallup study was released, Pat Robertson «s CBN commissioned the A. C. Nielsen Company to measure the electronic church viewing audience again, including, for the first time, the cable - TV viewers, since CBN is carried on thousands of cable systems.

`' Note: Since the UFC is not a publicly held company all PPV numbers are based on Dave Meltzer's estimates of PPV numbers which derive from his sources in the cable TV industry.

A spokesman for the company pointed out that as of Monday, the cables have been cut 137 times since the strike began.

Negotiations between PSEG and Greenport Village over a proposed underwater cable project on Fifth Street haven't moved any further along since a public forum last month between the power company and village residents, said Greenport Village Mayor George Hubbard Jr..

Since December 2013, Harlan has been a member of Fidelity's technology research team covering European telecommunications, satellite, and cable companies.

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.

Personnel aboard a ship contracted by Quintillion prepare to reel out more of the fiber - optic cable the company has been burying in the floor of the Beaufort and Chukchi seas off Alaska's coast since last summer.

In fact, if you've used Apple's wired EarPods (which come as standard with the company's phones and iPods) then you're probably familiar with how the AirPods look, since the they're are almost identical, minus any cables.

That's how local municipal broadband companies are able to provide gigabit service for significantly less than traditional cable companies: Since they don't have to worry about a pay TV infrastructure or shareholders, the initial cost to build the network can be easily paid off over years once subscribers start signing up.

Users can still plug their device directly into their stereo via aux cable to bypass the problems — since the Muse app will still allow for all of the above - listed functions — and the company is working on a fix for the problem.

Unbeknownst to me, my folks had switched cable companies since my last visit — and with that switch came a new cable modem.