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Prosecutors in New York have settled their consumer fraud lawsuit against Charter Communications for a record $174.2 million, calling the $62.5 million direct refund to customers the biggest by an internet provider in U.S. history. The agreement settles a lawsuit alleging that the state's largest ISP, which operated…

The FCC’s controversial decision last December to eliminate regulations aimed at preserving net neutrality has been followed by a flurry of legislative action at the state and federal level. The latest salvo is a bill introduced by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), which is a companion to a House bill introduced by…

Updated: Amazon Web Services says it’s “fully recovered” from the problems that led to widespread outages of internet sites and applications today. Its Amazon Simple Storage Service (or S3) is now “operating normally.” The company began to see what it called “high error rates” around 11:00 A.M. PT. The nagging…

China’s president Xi Jinping and its propaganda chief Liu Yunshan spoke at the World Internet Conference in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province today and said that China wants to “promote equitable global Internet governance” but not at the expense of “cyber sovereignty” for other countries. Their comments (Xi’s was via video…

In a 3-2 vote along party lines, the FCC today supported Chairman Tom Wheeler’s proposal — introduced earlier this month — to begin a proceeding that could strengthen Internet users’ privacy rights. It might lead to new rules empowering web users to keep private data about who they are, where they go, the sites they…

This will make your blood boil. Marriott International admitted that it de-authenticated visitor and exhibitor connections to their mobile hotspots at Nashville’s Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center, requiring them to pay as much as $1,000 per device to link to the hotel’s Wi-Fi system, the FCC disclosed…

It’s possible as content providers plan a massive Internet data dump on Tuesday, one that could break traffic records and put ISPs and WiFi networks to the test. “We're going to see long download times, more buffering of streams, more QoS issues and ISPs that will take steps to deal with the traffic, knowing it will…

It  sure sounded like a direct-to-consumer online option is under consideration when CBS COO Joseph Ianniello spoke today to investors at Nomura’s Digital Media Conference in NYC.  Nothing in Showtime’s contracts with cable and satellite providers “restricts us from doing something direct to consumer,” he says. He…

It just might if it frightens them enough to accelerate their efforts to make people pay for broadband based on how much they use — the same way they pay for electricity or water. “This isn’t just a side show,” independent analyst Craig Moffett says. “This is THE central issue defining the value of the cable industry…

Traditional TV programmers should feel uneasy about some of the findings out today from consulting firm Deloitte’s seventh annual State Of The Media Democracy study. Only 64% of U.S. consumers ranked TV watching as one of their three favorite media activities, down from 69% in 2011 and 71% in 2010, the firm found in…

The change could give cable operators a powerful edge in their competition with phone company broadband services — Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett calls the strategic implications “profound.” It will enable broadband subscribers at Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Cox, and Bright House Networks to…

Most major cable companies have committed to supply broadband Internet access to low-income households for $9.99 a month, the Federal Communications System is expected to announce Wednesday. FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has made expanded broadband access a top priority, and he told the New York Times that with…