Montreal Fortune, the business magazine, ran a prominent article in their June 1st edition on Comcast with the title, “How to Lose Friends and Influence,” essentially detailing how their bully-boy ways, indifference to customers and community, and just plain arrogance had been key factors in subverting their monopoly efforts to merge with Times-Warner Cable. Having …
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Neoliberal FCC Half-Step to Low Income Access to the Internet
New Orleans It would be nice to read the report of a proposal by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and embrace it with open arms and a wide smile. After all even a small step forward in bridging the digital divide is important, but this will be a half-step at that, and it’s easy to …
Comcast’s Internet Essentials and Lousy Customer Service Brought Them Down, Too
Austin The failure of Comcast’s monopoly-merger mania would almost be Biblical in the “pride cometh before a fall” sense if it were not so predictable, and if, we, and thankfully a whole lot of other people in a whole lot of other places, had not repeatedly tried to tell them so and warn …