News of Relevance to Broadband Internet Users

2023-07-08

Viacom's MTV Networks Launches Two Video Websites
(IMDB.com)

2023-07-07

New -- And Legal -- Movies Coming to Your PC?
(IMDB.com)

2023-07-06

CNN Likely To Offer Raw Footage for News Junkies
(IMDB.com)

2023-06-23

CBS Exec To Use Internet To Make CBS News More Transparent
(IMDB.com)

2023-04-06

Shaw Announced Faster Speeds
(Press Release)

2023-04-04

The Dawn of Intelligent Machines
(Business 2.0)

2023-01-25

Rogers soon to offer VOIP services
(Toronto Star)

2023-03-08

Scientists: Internet speed record smashed
(CNN)

2023-03-02

The scourge of SPAM
(Ottawa Sun)

2023-11-27

ISP download caps to slow swapping?
(News.com)

2023-11-22

Nailed to the Wall - Ohio uncappers face legal nightmare
(Broadband Reports)

2023-11-05

ISP Sued Over Suspended Email Account
(Slashdot)
Who owns your e-mail?
(c|net News.com)

2023-10-27

Cable Operators Seek To Corral Bandwidth Hogs
(Cable Datacom News)
The Death Of The Internet
(TomPaine.com)
Cable Industry Taking Control of the Net
(Slashdot)

2023-10-25

Rogers Communications Reports Third Quarter 2002 Results
(Yahoo! Finance)

2023-10-01

No more rebuilds means more downsizing coming: Tory
(Cablecaster Magazine)

2023-09-22

Bell adds security, privacy services to Sympatico
(ITBusiness.ca)

2023-09-12

How to blow your bandwidth
(Globe and Mail)

2023-09-05

Internet case tests privacy law
(Toronto Star)

2023-09-03

Cable Internet use jumps 77% in 2001
(Toronto Star)
High-speed Internet access on rise
(Globe and Mail)

2023-08-31

Michael Powell v. The Economy
(New Republic Online)

2023-08-29

Will Canada's ISPs become spies?
(c|net News.com)

2023-08-27

Packet Rage: New forms of cyber attack could burst data caps
(Ottawa Citizen at Canada.com)

2023-08-05

Canadian ISPs tune-in to wireless
(Globe and Mail)

2023-08-02

AT&T; Broadband Introduces Tiered Pricing
(Slashdot)

2023-08-01

MSOs Find No Easy Fix For Illegal Modem Nets
(Broadbandweek.com)

2023-07-24

Broadband Needs Home Improvement
(BusinessWeek)
BCE Announces Second Quarter Results - Revenues Up 4%; EBITDA Up 7%; $8.2 Billion Goodwill Write-Down
(Yahoo! Finance)

2023-07-18

Rogers Communications Reports Second Quarter 2002 Results
(Yahoo! Finance)

2023-07-15

Reuters Company News: Teleglobe creditors seek $1.19 billion from BCE
(Yahoo! Finance)

2023-07-06

Can Cable Keep Its Broadband Lead?
(TelecomWeb Broadband)

2023-07-05

The capitalist dilemma
(Globe and Mail)
Rogers quietly slows download speeds
(ITBusiness.ca)
Internautas activos (use http://babelfish.altavista.com/ to translate)
(La Opinion)
Rogers hiking basic cable rates 22%
(National Post)
3 Megabit Cable Modems, Anyone?
(Slashdot)

2023-07-04

A Wireless End Run Around ISPs
(BusinessWeekonline)

2023-06-28

Cable Firms Limit Users' Freedoms
(Slashdot)

2023-06-27

Searches by police, FBI target bandits of bandwidth
(Toledo Blade)
FBI Raids Homes and Seizes Bandwidth Pirate's PCs
(Slashdot)

2023-06-14

Download limits draw protests
(Globe and Mail)

2023-06-12

BusinessWeek Online: Will Cable Unplug the File Swappers?
(Yahoo! Finance)

2023-06-11

Garage Tinkerers Claim Wireless Last-Mile Solution
(Slashdot)

2023-06-07

Web users sound off over Internet pricing
(Toronto Star)
The Coming Internet Monopolies
(Slashdot)
Community Sets Up Their Own DSL
(Slashdot)

2023-06-05

Interview on Global TV's Consumer$mart today
(RBUA)
Think twice before downloading
(Global Television)

2023-06-04

New Tiered Pricing Comes to Broadband
(PCWorld.com)
Broadband users launch petition to protest bit cap
(ITBusiness.ca)
Sympatico poll indicates bit cap backlash
(Globe and Mail)
What Free Cable?
(Slashdot)

2023-06-01

Preventing Broadband Price-Gouging?
(Slashdot)

2023-05-31

Look out! Broadband prices rising
(ZDNet)

2023-05-30

Your Last Chance For @Home Memorabilia
(internetnews.com)
'678': The 666 of DSL Users
(Wired)
Reading digital entrails
(Globe and Mail)
ATT Raises Prices for Cable Modem Owners
(Slashdot)
Cutting a Broadband Swath for Cheaper Access
(TheStreet.com)

2023-05-14

End of Teleglobe is nigh, Washington Post reports: Chapter 11 within 10 days?
(Yahoo! Canada News)
A pox on bandwidth caps, killer of woolgathering
(Toronto Star)
Bell divides high-speed Sympatico
(Toronto Star)

2023-05-08

Rogers to offer multi-tier Internet
(Toronto Star)

2023-04-25

Cable: Will price tiers spark outcry?
(ZDNet News)
Rogers Communications Reports First Quarter 2002 Results
(Yahoo! Finance)

2023-03-24

Sprint plans high-speed Internet service
(Toronto Star)

2023-03-18

Wireless freenets challenge corporate dominance
(ITBusiness.ca)
Special Series: Big bandwidth and the little guy
(Globe and Mail)

2023-03-17

Rogers hikes rate for high-speed Net
(National Post)

2023-03-14

Rogers hikes price of surfing Net
(Toronto Star)
FCC: Cable ISPs Need Not Give Competitors Access
(Slashdot)

2023-03-08

1% hogging network, Rogers says; Cable operator regrets sending crackdown e-mail
(Toronto Star)

2023-03-04

Rogers' storm troopers unleashed on server users
(Toronto Star)

2023-12-06

@home shutting down in February?
(c|net News.com)

2023-12-04

Rogers' At Home deal extended for 3 months; High-speed Net users won't face service outage
(Toronto Star)
Rogers Cable strikes deal with At Home
(Globe and Mail)
Rogers' At Home deal extended for 3 months; High-speed Net users won't face service outage
(Digital Home Canada)

2023-12-03

Rogers, partners reach deal with ExciteAtHome
(Toronto Star)
E-mail fine, Rogers says
(Toronto Star)
Rogers readies Internet backup
(Toronto Star)
Rogers to sever At Home ties
(Globe and Mail)
AT&T; unplugs AtHome service
(Globe and Mail)
Excite cuts deals with Cox, Comcast
(c|net News.com)
Most @Home Customers Still Connected -- For Now
(Slashdot)
Some People @Home, Some Not @Home
(Slashdot)

2023-12-01

@Home Network Approaching Shutdown
(Slashdot)
Rogers scrambles to secure Internet link; At Home troubles already affecting some modems
(Toronto Star)
At Home begins to close its Internet service
(Globe and Mail)

2023-11-30

Rogers' Net plans sketchy
(Toronto Star)
Rogers e-mail clients drag feet on switch away from At Home
(Globe and Mail)
Finding a backup to Excite@Home
(c|net News.com)
Excite Could Go Dark On Friday
(Slashdot)
Rogers@Home
(CBC.CA)

2023-11-28

Rogers messed up its e-mail conversion
(Toronto Star)
Rogers struggles with @Home transition
(ITBusiness.ca)
No one @Home
(ITBusiness.ca)

2023-11-25

AT&T;’s Big Friday
(Multichannel News)
Rogers finally enables switch; More delays hit clients changing e-mail addresses
(Toronto Star)
Rogers misses e-mail switch deadline
(Toronto Star)
Rogers plans to weaken ties with At Home
(Toronto Star)
Shaw smart to be quick to build Internet system
(Globe and Mail)
Rogers delays e-mail changeover
(Globe and Mail)
Adios to @Home: A tale of two switches
(Cablecaster Magazine)
Rogers to move @Home customers
(Canoe.ca)
Cogeco changes e-mail suffix
(Toronto Star)

2023-10-23

Rogers chief considers run for Harris' job
(Toronto Star)
Rogers commits $60M to Web service
(Toronto Star)
Rogers still signing Net customers
(Toronto Star)
Rogers may leave @Home, too
(Cablecaster Magazine)
Rogers reaches deal with Excite@Home; Cogeco launches cogeco.ca
(Cablecaster Magazine)
CableLabs Adding Advanced PHY To DOCSIS
(Cable Datacom News)
Terayon Finds Redemption For S-CDMA
(Cable Datacom News)
Residential Broadband Customer Count Tops 10 Million (Old News)
(Cable Datacom News)
Going Gigabit Over Cable (Old news)
(Cable Datacom News)

2023-09-30

Chapter 11 For Excite@Home
(Slashdot)
Excite@Home files for bankruptcy
(c|net News.com)
No Longer Feeling @Home
(PBS)

2023-09-27

End Appears Near For Excite@Home and HSA
(Cable Datacom News)
Residential Broadband Customer Count Tops 10 Million
(Cable Datacom News)

2023-09-04

Missed Cues About @Home Mess
(Forbes)
Rogers studies options as lender, At Home talk
(Globe Technology)
ExciteAtHome still at risk
(CBS Marketwatch)
Why is Rogers still at home with At Home?
(Toronto Star)
Cox, Comcast to pull out of ExciteAtHome partnership
(Toronto Star)

2023-08-31

Cable allies to leave Excite@Home
(c|net News.com)
Was Excite@Home marriage doomed at the altar?
(c|net News.com)

2023-08-28

Net price war erupts amid At Home woes
(Toronto Star)

2023-08-22

ExciteAtHome switches auditor
(CBS Marketwatch)
AT&T; May Let Troubled At Home File for Bankruptcy, Analysts Say
(Bloomberg)

2023-08-20

At Home Doesn't Meet Nasdaq Requirements, May Fail (Update5)
(Bloomberg)
Auditor questions At Home's viability; Company faces possible delisting from Nasdaq
(CBS Marketwatch)
Excite@Home survival chances dim
(c|net News.com)
The tech lender of last resort?
(c|net News.com)

2023-08-16

Gateway, Comcast team on high-speed Net
(c|net News.com)
Broadband Subscriber Growth Stalls In Second Quarter
(Cable Datacom News)
Shaw Pushes Envelope On Internet Penetration
(Cable Datacom News)
AT&T;'s Broadband Future Hangs In The Balance
(Cable Datacom News)
Cox And Comcast End Excite@Home Exclusivity (Old news)
(Cable Datacom News)
Eslambolchi Aids @Home Improvement (Old news)
(Cable Datacom News)
Unraveling Excite And @Home (Old news)
(Cable Datacom News)

2023-07-26

Rogers@Home not unique, analysts say
(Toronto Star)

2023-07-20

@Home users file for class-action status
(Toronto Star)
Rogers Cable sued by customers
(Globe and Mail)

2023-06-28

@Home Cuts Newsgroups Due to DMCA Complaints
(Slashdot)
Rogers hits cell clients with ad
(Toronto Star)

2023-06-21

Rogers tests new interactive service
(Toronto Star)
Cross-country Net access may cost $4.5B
(Toronto Star)
Rogers e-mail service disrupted
(Toronto Star)
Ingram: 'Broadband' initiative is a bad idea
(Globe and Mail)
Net Service From Hell
(Now Magazine)
@Home's mis-configured proxy Excites hacker
(The Register)
Broadband Canada outperforms broadband US
(The Register)
Net blackout marks Web's Achilles heel
(c|net News.com)
Shaw passes 500,000 @Home mark
(Cablecaster Magazine)
Mountain slams ExpressVu
(Cablecaster Magazine)
Excite@Home renegotiates with AT&T;
(c|net News.com)
Cox raises its high-speed Net rates
(c|net News.com)
Jermoluk is ExciteAtHomesick
(CBS Marketwatch)
Temper Your Excitement About Excite@Home's $100 Million
(TheStreet.com)
Excited? Don't Be. It's Reverse-Split Time
(TheStreet.com)

2023-05-28

AT&T; won't add ExciteAtHome stock
(CBS Marketwatch)
Rogers to spend $300 million on @Home improvements; Excite@Home opens Toronto NOC
(Cablecaster Magazine)
Unraveling Excite And @Home
(Cable Datacom News)
Eslambolchi Aids @Home Improvement
(Cable Datacom News)
Making Home Networking Cable-Ready
(Cable Datacom News)

2023-05-12

Rogers plans to improve Internet service
(globetechnology.com)
Excite@Home to pay for service failures
(c|net News.com)
Will Excite be a dot-com footnote?
(CBS Marketwatch)

2023-05-02

Rogers@Home is losing the high-speed race
(Globe and Mail)

2023-04-26

Fiber Is Coming Home -- But Not Soon
(eCompany Now)
Security flaw found in Alcatel DSL modems
(c|net News.com)
Broadband fans busted over Gnutella
(c|net News.com)

2023-04-04

Broadband set to overtake dial-up modem in home internet market in Canada: Study
(Canada Newswire)

2023-03-23

RHUA now the RBUA
(Cablecaster Magazine)
Ted [Rogers] to step down in '04
(Cablecaster Magazine)

2023-03-09

Excite@Home outage persists in Midwest
(c|net News.com)
Broadband Week Letters to the Editor
(Broadband Week)
Rogers targets service failures
(globetechnology.com)
Cable IP Phone On Hold For Most MSOs
(Cable Datacom News)
AOL OK With Policy-Based Routing
(Cable Datacom News)

2023-02-10

Reliability problems with @Home e-mail sends customers elsewhere
(InfoWorld)

2023-01-30

Excite@Home a good idea whose time has come and gone
(Globe and Mail)

2023-01-22

Verizon sued for crap DSL service
(The Register)

2023-01-18

Canoe.ca Chat Transcript Posted
(Canoe.ca)
High Speed Internet Access
(CBC Marketplace)

2023-01-15

Cable IP Phone On Hold For Most MSOs
(Cable Datacom News)
Implementing Cable Open Access
(Cable Datacom News)

2023-12-20

Regional Launches High-Speed Internet in Five Communities in Eastern Ontario in Partnership with Two Local Internet Service Providers
(Regional Cablesystems)

2023-11-30

Excite@Home outage hits thousands
(ZDNet)

2023-11-23

AT&T; Broadband Gets Reprieve
(Multichannel News)
Cox, Rogers to Test BigBand Gear
(Multichannel News)
Time Warner To Open Cable Network To EarthLink
(Techweb)

2023-11-14

Firms tap potential of high-speed Web access via satellite
(CNN)

2023-11-11

Excite@Home Secures Position as Nation's 5th Largest Paid ISP and #1 Broadband ISP
(WebHostNews.com)
Trouble @Home for Rogers Subscribers
(InternetNews)
Cable Internet Rebounds In Q3
(Cable Datacom News)
FTC delays AOL-Time Warner decision by up to three weeks
(InfoWorld)

2023-11-02

Legitimate concerns vs. free speech: Who defines the rules for the Net ring?
(Infoworld)

2023-11-01

Uh-Oh! Canada
(ISP-Planet)

2023-10-27

Oh! Canada
(InternetNews)
Slowndown Hits Rogers@Home
(Angus Telecom Update)
No free speech @Home for critic who posts service documents to newsgroup
(InfoWorld)
@Home Critic Silenced By @Home
(Slashdot)
Nader: Al Takes Too Much Credit
(Wired)
Excite@Home's Returns: How I forgot to stop worrying and love subscriber growth
(Motley Fool)

2023-10-21

Web woes see Shaw reduce Excite ties
(Globe and Mail)

2023-10-17

Cover Story: Why Service Stinks (BusinessWeek)
(BusinessWeek)
Rogers high-speed service gets 'download rigor mortis'
(Globe and Mail)

2023-09-26

Agenda for management meeting posted
(RHUA)

2023-09-19

Excite@Home CEO to resign
(c|net News.com)

2023-09-12

U.S. regulators mull policy on cable "open access"
(c|net News.com)


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