Welcome to our weekly Watch List. A mashup of news and media-related developments that bear watching for how they’ll affect life and culture as we know it. If we find something not yet on your radar screen, all the better. Here’s what’s up. Well, That Didn’t Take Long… Cablevision’s fledgling wi-fi mobile service, Freewheel, has come […]
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Welcome to our weekly Watch List. A mashup of news and media-related developments that bear watching for how they’ll affect life and culture as we know it. If we find something not yet on your radar screen, all the better. Here’s what’s up for the week of June 20, 2016: Altice USA Is Here Altice and Cablevision
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Noting the FCC left the heavy lifting to New York State when it came to hammering out how the Altice takeover of Cablevision would serve the public interest — a far cry from the original deal, where Altice promised its shareholders $900 million in cost cutting within the first eight months of takeover, with another $150 million
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FILE UNDER ‘IT’S ALWAYS SOMETHING.’ Zoom Telephonics alleges Cablevision is something of a bully in a new petition before the FCC, asking the commission to rethink what it thought about the Altice-Cablevision buy. Here’s an excerpt from the petition: ‘Cablevision deters its customers from purchasing their own modems by posting misleading information on its website that leads
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