Sprint was talking to T - Mobile about combining, but put those talks on hold so it could discuss a possible partnership
with cable giants Comcast (cmcsa) and Charter Communications (chtr).
This week, the telecom giant provided more details about its plans for the 5G home service, which is likely to compete head on
with cable giants like Comcast, Charter Communications (chtr) and Altice (atus).
In a deal that can power the talking points of «net neutrality» detractors and advocates alike, video streamer Netflix announced «a mutually beneficial interconnection agreement»
with cable giant Comcast.
Not exact matches
The vertically integrated media /
cable / telco
giants are watching —
with clenched corporate jaws — as previously bulletproof annuities, like landline and
cable subscriptions, have begun to show signs of vulnerability.
In addition, the regulators have forbidden the
cable giant from entering into agreements
with program suppliers — for example, TV networks — that restrict those suppliers from providing their content to online or streaming services.
While the
cable giant's mammoth $ 5 billion purchase of exclusive rights to NHL programming last year got all the headlines, Thursday's deal
with World Wrestling Entertainment is equally interesting, especially to fans of the squared circle.
Throughoutrn2012, Shaw purchased hundredsrnof thousands of shares in his ownrncompany, an effort to prop uprnthe
cable giant's flagging stock.rnAfter flirting
with $ 19 a share inrnMay, Shaw Communicationsrncrept back up to $ 21 over therncourse of the fall.
Worried that the Silicon Valley
giant is going to increasingly eat their TV lunch, the two
cable companies have decided to fight fire
with fire.
The program works by exploiting «clouds,» which are massive data centers across continents that are connected by thousands of miles of fiber - optic
cable that are used by the Silicon Valley
giants to function
with minimal data loss and system slowdowns.
Comcast is finally ready to unveil its new mobile phone service, but the market has shifted dramatically and gotten intensely more competitive since the
cable giant first got started
with the offering two years ago.
Japanese technology
giant NEC Corporation and Alcatel Submarine Networks are helping Google
with the latest
cable laying project, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2019, Vusirikala said.
Building on the original deal
with Nelvana, the entertainment division established partnerships
with U.S.
cable channel
giants Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network.
It's made up of what appears to be a regular onesie, albeit
with several sensors attached and a
giant collection of
cables that snakes out of the child's back to plug into a small form factor computer.
After recently suspending plans in Mountain View and Palo Alto, Calif. to connect homes in the common way
with fiber optic
cables, the search
giant's Fiber unit has asked federal regulators for permission try an experimental wireless solution.
Cable sports
giant ESPN's struggles in recent years have been well - documented,
with the Walt Disney - owned network shedding more than 12 million subscribers in the past six years as the number of cord - cutters has ticked upwards and
cable providers have started offering slimmer bundles that don't always include ESPN.
LONDON Vodafone is nearing a transformational deal to buy continental European assets from
cable giant Liberty Global and could announce an agreement next week, three sources familiar
with the matter told Reuters.
LONDON (Reuters)- Vodafone (VOD.L) is nearing a transformational deal to buy continental European assets from
cable giant Liberty Global and could announce an agreement next week, three sources familiar
with the matter told Reuters.
In his statement, Tu, a lawyer
with the Los Angeles law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, said that Dauman and Abrams had also been removed as directors of National Amusements Inc., the holding company that owns the controlling shares of
cable giant Viacom and CBS.
Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Paterson, and Ed Rendell added their names to the list of lawmakers supporting the deal, which would create a new $ 30 billion joint venture by merging the Philadelphia
cable giant's content division
with NBC Universal's (NBCU) stable of television networks, film studios and theme parks.
The handful of climate - related
cables — among the hundreds of thousands of secret and unclassified messages released by the whistle - blower organization Wikileaks — show the United States put climate change at the center of its foreign policy relationship
with the oil - producing
giant
The crippled cruiseliner has been encased in 30 uninflated flotation caissons connected under the rotting ship by
giant chains and
cables weighing around 30 million metric tons, which will hoist the ship up when the caissons are filled
with air.
Dating apps allow you to take your dating life
with you wherever you go — whether that's out to dinner at Fisherman's Wharf, commuting to work on the
cable cars, catching a
Giants game, or anything else.
A cop show at the
cable giant - which has had great success
with crime but usually from the criminal perspective - directed by Cary...
For example, Uber challenging taxis in major urban centers, Netflix sidestepping
cable network
giants and Air B&B giving mom - and - pop operations the leverage to compete
with multibillion dollar hospitality industry.
The
giant colored spools on three monumental industrial shelving units might at first glance seem to have been inspired by the coiled Con Edison
cables that often dot the city, but the installation, which will occupy the Doris C. Freedman Plaza at the southeast corner of Central Park, contains 212 wooden spools wound
with brightly colored ropes.
The handful of climate - related
cables — among the hundreds of thousands of secret and unclassified messages released by the whistle - blower organization Wikileaks — show the United States put climate change at the center of its foreign policy relationship
with the oil - producing
giant in the months after last year's blowout U.N. climate summit in Denmark.
This fiber, in few cases, remains dark or use of the dark
cable is highly restricted because few settlements limited the ability of local government to compete
with giant cable companies.
In terms of the overall design, the search
giant has opted for a circular bud along
with a textured
cable connecting both.