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    Looks like Broadcast Channels Fees will be going up

    Yes, but maybe they don't get as little as you might think. Just a couple of things to consider: Univision is going to get lots of viewership in areas with high Spanish-speaking populations, and the CW has just started getting into the sports business now that they are showing ACC games...
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    Looks like Broadcast Channels Fees will be going up

    Well, they probably get the majority of the viewership, but it would also include PBS, CW, Univision, ION, etc. if available in your market.
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    Spectrum Fiber TV Service

    Maybe they did for some period of time? I can say I did not try Spectrum in 2020, so it may have come and gone while I wasn't paying attention.
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    Spectrum Fiber TV Service

    Per your link: Spectrum TV cancellation and early termination fees: none Spectrum is a contract-free provider, meaning none of its packages require service agreements or commitments. That also means you won’t find any Spectrum fees for cancelling service, so you’re free to come and...
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    Data Caps Are Likely Coming to Spectrum Customers Soon

    Not to mention bigger overbuilds like AT&T, Verizon Fios, Google, Ting, etc. I just don't see it being worth the effort on Charter's part. It isn't going to protect their diminishing CATV service, but it would drive customers away that already have access to better alternatives but stick with...
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    Data Caps Are Likely Coming to Spectrum Customers Soon

    https://www.lightreading.com/broadband/charter-has-no-plans-to-add-data-caps-when-fcc-ban-lifts/d/d-id/784184?
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    Spectrum: Can you avoid cable box charges by just using the app?

    My parent's pay upwards of $15 in local taxes/franchise fees on their TV service with Spectrum.
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    Frontier Communications Files for Bankruptcy

    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/02/frontier-raises-sneaky-internet-infrastructure-surcharge-from-4-to-7/
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    Frontier Communications Files for Bankruptcy

    I get to do a fun build vs. buy analysis every year or so. As long as your servers need to stay up 24/7, co-location is still the way to go for virtually all implementations. Cloud continues to hover around the 2.3-2.7x cost of co-lo, depending on the application profile. Even if you go 100%...
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    Frontier Communications Files for Bankruptcy

    Yeah. We never put any Windows on the public-facing infrastructure. We did do pen testing and red team assessments to see what the vulnerabilities are. We found that the web-hosting infrastructure was really secure even though we had feeds coming in via FTP and ran interpreted code, but there...
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    Frontier Communications Files for Bankruptcy

    Whenever I was working on pen testing, one of the easiest things to look for, once you got a toe-hold, was XP and earlier systems which have a ton of un-patched zero-days that were discovered after MS stopped issuing security updates. A single malicious ad or successful phish, and that is the...
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    Frontier Communications Files for Bankruptcy

    I hope you have a good firewall in front of it. Windows 2003! :eeek
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    Frontier Communications Files for Bankruptcy

    I resemble that remark. ;)
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    Frontier Communications Files for Bankruptcy

    I think these last-gen traditional PBXs will be supported for a while yet. Especially since so many of them have VOIP upgrades and add-ons to convert from PRIs to SIP.
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    Frontier Communications Files for Bankruptcy

    Bah. There's plenty of companies around to support PBXs from the naughties. It isn't like some of the early 90s systems I replaced, where there literally were no parts available anywhere in the western hemisphere. We bought a line card for one from Sri Lanka off eBay just to keep things...
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    Frontier Communications Files for Bankruptcy

    So, what does your long-distance bill look like? Is the 10,000 minutes long distance or is that a flat rate for all calls or something else? We saved tons on long distance at a former job when we moved our ancient variety of PBXs to an Avaya VOIP system which used our MPLS WAN to carry the...
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    Frontier Communications Files for Bankruptcy

    :rolleyes: SHeesh
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    Frontier Communications Files for Bankruptcy

    Depends. There is certainly a lot of rural markets they got that fit that description, but they also got a number of growing areas they could have converted to fiber and made big money, including some FiOS markets like North Myrtle Beach. They had all the infrastructure for FiOS here in Durham...
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    Frontier Communications Files for Bankruptcy

    I had a similar issue with AT&T (BellSouth). All I needed was a single POTS line for a fire alarm in a building in downtown Raleigh, NC literally right across the street from the AT&T CO. They claimed the service was already in the building, but their techs couldn't find the DEMARC, so nothing...
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    Frontier Communications Files for Bankruptcy

    I'm paying $50/month for gig now. It goes up to $70 at the end of my promo period with no equipment fees (until their router needs replacement anyway). I don't see Frontier competing with that.
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    Frontier Communications Files for Bankruptcy

    If the price was right, I'd consider Frontier Fiber. They already have it here in Durham, NC, but it is expensive. They do however have good peering, and the technology they use here allows you to easily use your own router, unlike AT&T Fiber which works for a while until the next firmware...
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    Spectrum cloud dvr now available to more packages

    Yes. I considered the streaming only with cloud DVR option with Spectrum, but the DVR capacity was anemic.
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    Frontier Communications Files for Bankruptcy

    When I had Frontier, I had 24Mb over VDSL2. They offered 50Mb over bonded VDSL2, but only for business accounts.
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    Frontier Communications Files for Bankruptcy

    I am amused and saddened at the same time that their big plan for coming out of bankruptcy is to deploy fiber for broadband. Great idea...twenty years ago. If they had done that all along, they probably wouldn't have gone bankrupt in the first place, and as the limitations of [the current...
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    Bill to fight surprise cable fees

    I don't know about that in particular, but leaving too much up to the agencies when it comes to rules like this invites changes every 4-8 years when the administration changes, and we get disruptive about-faces like we did with NN, which helps no one. Of course, having too much detail in the...
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