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Comcast Installs Cable In Your Gutter, Across Your Driveway [Comcatastrophe]
consumerist.com - 1/14/2009
Comcast Installs Cable In Your Gutter, Across Your Driveway [Comcatastrophe]
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For more than a year, says the Baltimore Sun, there were Comcast cables laying in the gutters, and across the driveways of a neighborhood in Hanover, MD. Why were they laying there? Because that's...
blogs.barrons.com - 1/20/2009
Microsoft Sells Entire Comcast Stake
— blogs.barrons.com — Microsoft (MSFT) disclosed in an SEC filing on Friday that it has sold its entire 7.3% stake... in Comcast (CMCSA) Class A common stock. Microsoft had owned 150,935,575 shares. In a research note this morning, Bernstein Research analyst Craig ... (more) Microsoft Sells Entire Comcast Stake

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FCC Doesn't Like Comcast's New Treatment of VoIP - Hints that Digital Voice service should be regulated...
dslreports.com - 1/20/2009
FCC Doesn't Like Comcast's New Treatment of VoIP - Hints that Digital Voice service should be ...
— dslreports.com — While a lot was made of the FCC's investigation and Comcast's shift to a "protocol agnostic" network... management system, the FCC order didn't actually punish Comcast, came with no fine, offered no new guidelines, didn't request they do anything they ... (more) FCC Doesn't Like Comcast's New Treatment of VoIP - Hints ...

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gigaom.com - 1/21/2009
FCC Asks if Comcast Slows Rivals’ VoIP Traffic [GigaOM]
— gigaom.com — Looks like Comcast’s new network management plan is drawing the ire of competing Voice over IP providers... and the scrutiny of federal regulators. The plan, which is detailed here , basically slows bandwidth hogs broadband speeds during times of ... (more) FCC Asks if Comcast Slows Rivals’ VoIP Traffic [GigaOM]

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CrunchGear:  Yet another Comcast FAIL post

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Yet another Comcast FAIL post
CrunchGear — ... cluster *uck shown in the picture above. And it was installed like that for over a year. Eventually the company properly installed the cables but only after a call from the Baltimore Sun. I totally understand the frustration as Comcast finally installed a few Cable Cards only after I wrote a post about the company’s incompetence. It’s sad that it requires an influential media outlet to get something done with Comcast.  Baltimore Sun via Consumerist

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