Author: Luke Bouma
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AT&T Announces Project AirGig For Wireless Gigabit Home Internet
Yesterday AT&T announced their new Project AirGig with plans to offer 1 Gigabit per second home internet wirelessly. AirGig uses existing power poles to place wireless towers without the need to build new towers. According to AT&T this will allow AirGig service can be rolled out far faster than other high speed internet service “Using…
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Disney Buys Fox For $52 Billion – Now Owns 60% of Hulu
Today it became official as Disney is buying Fox for about $29.54 per share, based on Disney’s closing share price Wednesday. The businesses included giving the deal a total value of approximately $66.1 billion, with Disney assuming $13.7 billion of Fox’s net debt. With this deal, Disney will get ownership of 20th Century Fox movie and television…
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For the Second Time in a Year Charter Is Raising Their Broadcast TV Fee
Well 2018 is almost here and we have already seen Comcast and Cox raise their prices and now Charter is doing the same. Recently Cord Cutters News confirmed that for the second time this year Charter is raising their broadcast TV fee in February 2018. At the start of 2017 the fee was $6.05 a…
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Redbox is Launching a New Streaming Service
A few years ago Redbox and Verizon teamed up for a movie streaming service called Redbox Instant. That service ended up shutting down a few years ago and any movie purchased there was moved over to what is now the FandangoNOW streaming service. (Formally MGo) For some time now we have heard that Redbox was…
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DIRECTV NOW is Sending Out More DVR Invites Tonight
Did you miss out on the first few rounds of DIRECTV NOW DVR invites? Well, go check your email as AT&T is sending out a massive number of DVR invites today. If you want to see if you got an invite to the DIRECTV NOW beta make sure to check the email address you gave AT&T and…
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The AirTV 2 Will Stream Your Antenna to Any Sling TV App Around The World
A few weeks ago we reported that Sling TV was working on a second gen Air TV device. Now we get some new details of what it can do. According to a new app called “AirTV: Watch Local TV Anywhere” that briefly appeared in the Amazon app store and was spotted by AFTVnews you will…
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Comcast Promises to Be Good After Net Neutrality Repeal
Tomorrow the FCC will vote on repealing Net Neutrality. Today Comcast wanted to make it clear that they won’t abuse their powers as an ISP in a blog post by David L. Cohen Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer. In the blog post Comcast promised the following points: Will Comcast broadband customers still be…
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YouTube Adds 4K Support to The Xbox One
This week Google updated their Xbox One app with 4K support and says HDR support is on the way. 4K HDR support will be added to the Xbox One S and the Xbox One X. Currently the ability to watch 4K video is limited to the Xbox One and the Xbox One S. If you…
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Cox Is Raising Their Prices
Earlier this week we learned that Comcast was raising their prices. Today we learn that Cox will also be raising the price of their pay-TV service. Recently Cox started informing customers that their rates will be going up on January 7, 2018. Core packages are going up as much as $5 a month, but Cox…
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T-Mobile is Launching a “Disruptive” TV Service in 2018
Well, add one more live TV service for cord cutters to the list. Today T-Mobile announced that they plan to take on cable and satellite TV with their own TV service. Here is the announcement from T-Mobile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=90&v=hZJDAJDD-uw “People love their TV, but they hate their TV providers. And worse, they have no real choice but…