“Netflix-loving New Yorkers may be in for a rude awakening if Comcast gets the green light to buy Time Warner Cable in a $45.2 billion stock deal,” Kaja Whitehouse reports for The New York Post.
“Comcast, which is currently the nation’s largest Internet service provider, has been falling in Netflix’s data-speed rankings in recent months. And experts say it will only get worse if regulators approve Comcast’s bid to swallow Time Warner, the nation’s second-largest cable provider,” Whitehouse reports. “Comcast, which is currently the nation’s largest Internet service provider, has been falling in Netflix’s data-speed rankings in recent months. And experts say it will only get worse if regulators approve Comcast’s bid to swallow Time Warner, the nation’s second-largest cable provider.”
Whitehouse reports, “The low ranking coincides with increasingly loud complaints by Comcast consumers who say their Netflix viewing has become spotty at best, according to reports.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The same goes for Apple TV users. A throttled Apple TV is worse than useless, it actually harms Apple’s reputation as most users wrongly blame Apple when Apple TV buffers, instead of rightfully blaming the keepers of the data pipes into their homes.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
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I MUST have fast internet. Where I live, I have one choice – Comcast. Well, satellite, but it’s not good. I don’t want nor need cable TV. I know nothing, but I kind of wish there were companies who offered only high speed internet. Wonder if this mifi (what we call pocket wifi in Japan) would work at my America house? We work from home online, so internet access is our lifeline for work. I couldn’t care less about TV junk.
Surely, the Feds won’t allow this merger to occur. It would obviously create a monopoly. Isn’t that what the powers that be are supposed to prevent? Although, personally, I have had a great experience with Comcast broadband. Ever tried ATTs DSL service? Oh, you’re still waiting to get the article to which I’m responding. All the DSLs I’ve use were barely better that the ancient dial up speeds I used to get from AOL!!!
Apple has all the necessary resources to construct and operate an independent, state of the art programming distribution thoroughfare of its own from scratch, which could leave in the dust the existing satellite and cable TV choke-points that are holding the nation hostage with outdated infrastructure and content models that were designed to compete with bundled content broadcasting services rather than to be universal content narrowcasters. The company needs to shit or get off the pot already, because that’s precisely what it’s cash horde is there for: to insure it can bring its products and the programming of its suppliers to market in a more cost effective and technically superior manner, no matter who or what tries to obstruct their path or processes.
Same blame game happens with lousy cell data connections. [I’m looking at you, Sprint.]