Operators
Charter focus: Connectivity, customer relationships… Video? Meh
Charter isn’t looking at video as a stand-alone business anymore, its focus is connectivity. Video just helps bring in the customers.
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Charter
Mobile
Altice USA, Charter & Dish ogle T-Mobile assets to expand mobile delivery
It shouldn’t be surprising that a trio of decidedly non-telcos are looking to push deeper into the lucrative mobile market. Altice USA, Charter and Dish Network all are among the bidders looking to pick up prepaid wireless brand Boost from T-Mobile
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Cord Cutting
In the U.S., service providers face triple cord-cutting threat
U.S. operators – especially telcos – are facing a triple cord-cutting threat as subscribers are dropping their landlines, traditional pay-TV subscriptions and, increasingly, broadband plans, as consumers look to mobile as their one-source supplier. Researcher Read More
Connected TVs & Devices
Charter, Arris to partner on next-gen ‘WorldBox2.0’
Charter has tapped Arris to develop a next-gen hybrid set-top box that allows users to access Internet content as well as content delivered by the pay-TV operator. Charter, the nation’s second-largest broadband provider and third-largest Read More
Cloud TV
Virtual MVPDs seen as more disruptive than Netflix, YouTube
PlayStation Vue. Sling TV. Hulu. Amazon. DirecTV. Google. Maybe even an entry from Apple. All are potential players in the virtual MVPD (V-MVPD) market, a market that at least one researcher believes could top 15 Read More
Broadband
Q2 sees slowest broadband subscriber adds in 15 years
The 14 largest service providers added more than 190,000 broadband customers in the second quarter, the smallest add for a quarter in the past 15 years. Cable operators – led by Charter and Comcast — Read More
Broadband
Comcast upping its test data caps to a terabyte
Comcast this week said it would more than triple the current 300 gigabyte data caps it’s testing in select U.S. markets, giving customers the ability to use up to a terabyte of data, something the Read More
Earnings
Charter Q1 earnings disappoint; eyes broadband, OTT growth following acquisitions’ OK
Charter Communications reporter bigger-than-expected losses for the first quarter of $188 million, or $1.68 per share, about double what Wall Street had expected. The company blamed weakness in its video business for the disappointing earnings Read More
Earnings
Despite adding subs, Charter’s loss widens for Q4
Charter Communications added subscribers in Q4 and for the full year in 2015, the first time it’s managed to do that in a decade, but it came at a cost; the company reported a loss Read More
Broadband
Can Dish’s Charlie Ergen sink ‘New Charter’ before it floats? Maybe
Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen has taken the satellite operator’s campaign against the proposed Charter-Time Warner Cable merger to a new level, this week slamming the deal at a gathering of top FCC staffers as Read More