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Today's Top Stories
1. Comcast gets Elemental with TV Everywhere transcoding
2. Rogers raises cable modem usage caps
3. BC Partners to buy Sweden's Com Hem
4. Fav.tv arrives at intersection of IPG, social media
5. Ex-Comcast exec Kunkel lands at Microsoft Editor's Corner:  Usage caps: Will one size fit all? Also Noted: OTT Delivery
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Usage caps: Will one size fit all?
Recent moves by broadband ISPs suggest that 250 GB per month is the de facto standard for bandwidth usage caps. Several operators have set their caps at 250 GB to start, while others, such as Rogers Communications (NYSE: RCI) and Shaw Communications (NYSE: SJR) in Canada, have raised their limits to 250 GB from starting points that originally were lower. Lower caps have drawn much criticism, but will creating an industry standard at 250 GB satisfy everyone? Gradually, consumers and regulators have been coming around to the idea that usage caps may be necessary to some degree. It wasn't so long ago that any kind of cap was thought of as a travesty and service providers attacked for tough policies, but now when someone consistently goes over the 250 GB cap, as a Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) customer in Seattle recently did before seeing his service suspended, the violator gets mocked almost as much for not managing his own usage better. ...Continue reading this Editor's Corner online Read more about: Cable Tv Operators, usage-based billing, Canada bandwidth cap, Editor's Corner
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Today's Top News 1. Comcast gets Elemental with TV Everywhere transcoding
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2. Rogers raises cable modem usage caps
Canadian ISPs were among the first to try their hand at bandwidth usage caps, and predictably have drawn much controversy, especially since video streaming giant Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) has made a stronger bid for Canadian video viewers. Now, some of the ISPs appear ready to rethink their bandwidth limits. Apparently in response to the cacophony, cable modem broadband ISP Rogers Communications (NYSE: RCI) has decided to increase its usage caps on its four primary Internet service tiers, following a similar move by Shaw Communications (NYSE: SJR) a couple months ago. Among other changes, the highest usage cap offered by Rogers moves from 175 GB per month to 250 GB, which is more in line with what some other ISPs already offer. Still, you can bet there will be more noise about 250 GB not being enough. For more:
- see this Broadband DSL Reports post Related articles:
Shaw Communications raised its usage caps in May
Canadian ISPs have aggressively pursued usage caps Read more about: Internet Service, Rogers Communications, usage-based billing, broadband cap
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3. BC Partners to buy Sweden's Com Hem
4. Fav.tv arrives at intersection of IPG, social media
5. Ex-Comcast exec Kunkel lands at Microsoft
Gerard Kunkel, the executiave who was in charge of much of Comcast's interactive programming guide and user interface endeavors until announcing his departure from the company in early 2011, is now working with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), according to Multichannel News. Kunkel is now the media strategy advisor for Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business. His role at Comcast and been senior vice president of user experience and product design. His contribution in Redmond no doubt will be a win for a company whose game consoles are fast becoming cable TV set-top boxes. For more:
- read this Multichannel News post Related articles:
Kunkel announced in January he was leaving Comcast for other pursuits Read more about: Comcast, Interactive Programming, Microsoft, Game Consoles
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Also Noted
SPOTLIGHT ON... FCC finds more support for cross-ownership changes The Federal Communications Commission has released the results of a new round of media cross-ownership studies, including one study that concludes it could be time to end the broadcast-newspaper cross-ownership ban. Continue... Cable industry news from across the Web: @FierceCable RT @TIAEvents: Innovation is key to protecting smart grid from cyber attack. Article | Follow @FierceCable > Set-top box maker Amino Technologies reports a 36 percent revenue jump for its most recent six-month period. Article > ZCorum announces a mobile application for cable modem diagnostics at the NCTC trade show. Article > Dave Habiger becomes CEO of NDS Group. Release > Could News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch face Scotland Yard investigation? Article And finally... Can you imagine Larry the Cable Guy x 44? Article News From the Fierce Network:
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