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Partnerships Critical to Connected Home Success
“The audience as well as the panelists agreed that partnerships were critical to success in the connected home,” according to Tom Kerber Director of Research for Parks Associates. He was referring to the panel he moderated at the 2015 CONNECTIONS™ Conference and how different skill sets will be required to manage and create the best consumer experience.…
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Time for Personal & Persistent Numbers
$229,500 is an awfully expensive wrong number. As has been widely reported, a Manhattan federal judge fined Time-Warner $1,500 for each of Time-Warner’s 153 unwanted calls to Araceli King resulting in the aforementioned hefty fine. Time-Warner’s Interactive Voice Response (e.g. robo-calling) system was calling the correct phone number. Unfortunately, for Time-Warner, that number was no longer…
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53 Areas of Harm?
At a superficial level, it would appear that the Comcast/Time-Warner businesses wouldn’t remove competition as they generally serve non-overlapping geographic areas. Additionally, Comcast would divest and swap systems with Charter to maintain less than 30% nationwide market share in the Pay-TV market. The reality is that there are different market segments, beyond distribution of pay-TV,…
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Preview of the Merger Mix-Up at the ACA Summit
Almost lost in the noise from last week’s FCC’s actions are the ongoing FCC deliberations about the proposed Comcast/Time Warner and AT&T/DirecTV merger/acquisitions. It won’t be a forgotten topic at the 2015 ACA Summit, as Ross Lieberman of ACA reminds in the above interview. This panel is so fresh, its description isn’t even on the website…
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Be Careful What You Ask For
Retransmission consent reform was a hot topic at this week’s Indy Show. In this interview, Mike Grebb, Executive Editor of CableFAX provides an overview of some of the discussions heard on this topic, including thoughts on the retransmission consent flare-up between CBS and Time-Warner, comments from Insight founder Michael Wilner on being careful what you…
