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Internet Outage: Comcast, Charter, Other ISPs Go Down, Not Working Across US

Update, 4:40pm ET: The majority of users of Comcast, Charter and Level 3 users are reporting their service has been restored. Comcast directed IBT to the comment provided by Level 3 on the outages, included in the story below, suggesting the outages were ... read more

Sprint Wants to Buy Charter...Then T-Mobile

Charter had recently turned down a $100 billion acquisition ... But Charter and Comcast had already struck their own, independent arrangement that not only involved the company working jointly on entering the wireless market and testing fifth generation ... read more

Trump just killed Obama's internet-privacy rules — here's what that means for you

An internet service provider ... Sprint, Comcast, T-Mobile, and Charter to clarify how they'd go about their privacy policies after the repeal. Comcast, T-Mobile, and Charter did not reply to requests for comment. The other three referred us to the ... read more

Time Warner Cable Outage Sparks Investigation

A national Internet service disruption across Time Warner Cable ... Andrew Cuomo, who ordered the investigation as part of the state’s review of the merger, Bloomberg notes. “Today’s widespread Internet outage that has apparently impacted more ... read more

U.S. FCC OKs so-called ‘net neutrality’ rules on party-line vote

“Internet service providers like Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile now must ... but the agency’s legal approach was eventually struck down. FCC officials are hoping to erase the legal ambiguity by no longer classifying the Internet as an ... read more

Hands off my data! 15 more default privacy settings

Thousands of you told me about your experiences trying to protect your privacy and asked about how to go further ... but not for serving you targeted ads - Yahoo is following you across the Web to provide "personalized experiences" on other sites and ... read more

Charter Spectrum Stock Tanks on Cord Cutting Fears

Like Comcast ... FCC's 25 Mbps definition) across huge swaths of the country. And while fleeing DSL subscribers often sign up for cable TV simply because it's cheaper than buying broadband alone, that's clearly not going to protect Charter from obvious ... read more

Is net neutrality dying? Has the FCC killed it? What comes next? Here’s what you need to know

This is not making anything faster — it’s allowing ISPs to selectively slow down ... other bit. As former Wired writer Ryan Singel put it in explanatory piece at Medium: “Net Neutrality is the simple concept that the company that provides you ... read more

Comcast network upgrades could leave some customers without cable

For more information, go to Comcast.com/digitalnow, call (877) 634-4434 or visit the Comcast office at 4659 Washtenaw Ave. The switch does not affect limited basic ... channels and faster Internet speeds to our customers,” Halprin said. read more

Trump just killed Obama’s internet privacy rules — here’s what that means for you

Comcast, T-Mobile, and Charter did not reply ... see how ISPs go about their privacy policies without the Obama rules hanging over them. The thing is, that’s all you can really do from here on out. The post Trump just killed Obama’s internet privacy ... read more