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The United States Department of Justice approved Verizon’s US$3.6 billion bid for additional spectrum, albeit with changes mandated by antitrust regulators to ensure the deal won’t lead to diminished competition, lower-quality products or higher consumer costs. Verizon Wireless will be allowed to pay Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Cox Communications and Bright House Networks for a Continue Reading →

***There’s considerable furor at the people with oversight of this fall’s Presidential Debates over the absence of moderators of color. Various diversity-minded organizations from the NAACP to Univision spearhead the furor-raising – and they have a good point. Given we’re on the road to a multicultural majority in this nation and the fact that we’re Continue Reading →

Verizon and a consortium of cable companies have struck a deal with regulators to scale back their joint marketing arrangement to gain approval for their $3.9 billion wireless-spectrum deal, according to sources in a Wall Street Journal report. Verizon and the cable consortium — which includes Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Communications — Continue Reading →

I don’t know what you thought about the opening ceremony of the “Games Of The 30th Olympiad Of The Modern Era,” but I watched it from seat 5D on JetBlue Flt 676 from LAX to JFK and, for me, it lacked some of the grandeur I was expecting. Not to worry. Once they passed torch, Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120727_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] I wasn’t exaggerating when I said recently that the Internet speed wars were beginning. Google has now entered the race by building their own fiber optic network, and its new service is light years ahead of Comcast and Verizon when it comes to speed and price.  Google Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120726_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] In order to compete with Verizon Fios, Comcast has announced that it will increase Internet speeds in ten Northeast markets. Its new tier will offer download speeds of up to 305 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 65 Mbps. In case that sounded like gibberish, let Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer chats with Antwan Lewis and Heather Nauert on Fox 5’s Good Day Wake Up about Comcast’s new high speed internet. Continue Reading →

Not long after Verizon doubled its highest FiOS Internet speeds to 300 megabits per second, Comcast today announced a brand-new speed tier that will hit 305Mbps. Coincidentally, the new Xfinity Platinum Internet will initially be available in the Northeast US, where Verizon FiOS is also prevalent. Presumably, if Verizon FiOS offered speed of 310Mbps, Comcast Continue Reading →

Comcast Corp, the parent company of NBC, has bought out Microsoft Corp’s 50 percent stake in MSNBC.com for a reported $300 million to assume full control of the news website. The deal ends 16 years of a 50-50 joint venture between Microsoft and NBCUniversal, which is now majority-owned by Comcast Corp, NBC said. “Today we’re Continue Reading →

DocuSign Inc., a provider of electronic-signature services, raised $47.5 million in a financing round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and added Mary Meeker, a partner at the venture firm, to its board. Accel Partners and a large institutional investor joined in the funding round, San Francisco-based DocuSign said today in a statement. Comcast Continue Reading →