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...In the US, data usage via the cable company Comcast is up 32 per cent nationwide, and by over 60 per cent in locked-down cities....
...Quick reminder that Dumb and Dumber (AT&T and Verizon) and Big Cable (Comcast and Charter Communications) won’t need to worry about Legere. He’s got one foot out of the door....
...Pinsent Masons has added a technology, media and communications partner to its Singapore office. Alexander Shepherd is joining the law firm from Bird & Bird, where he was a partner....
...But that’s what happened to the billionaire US cable cowboy in Switzerland this week....
...(FT) Milan v Madrid Southern Europe’s two main financial centres were both hit by the 2008 crash, but prices in Madrid have raced ahead of those in its Italian cousin since....
...Its lawyers at Herbert Smith Freehills stand to earn between £15.2m and £20m in legal fees. Its communications advisers at Finsbury will make £5m....
...Now, it is set to play an even more crucial role if either US cable group Comcast or Fox, which is being backed by its new owner Walt Disney, do not declare their competing bids for Sky as “best-and-final...
...In Comcast’s biggest business, cable and internet, revenue rose 5.1 per cent to $13.2bn and adjusted earnings grew 5.2 per cent to $5.24bn....
...Comcast’s NBCUniversal owns the NBC broadcast network, as well as portfolio of cable channels and the Universal film studio and it is also an investor in Hulu....
...Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and Charter have all reported subscriber losses in the third quarter. Altice USA shed a net 33,000 pay-TV subscribers, but that was fewer than the 40,000 it lost a year ago....
...The Federal Communications Commission is studying a proposed takeover by Sinclair Broadcast Group of rival station owner Tribune Media....
...The group remains a sub-scale rival to Comcast and Charter, having lost out to the latter in the $78.7bn battle for Time Warner Cable in 2015....
...Lombard says the remedies mean that Sky shareholders should now get ready for a higher takeover offer from Fox, as it looks to compete with a potential offer by US cable giant Comcast....
...HBO’s distribution deal with Comcast, America’s largest cable operator and the owner of NBCUniversal, was also up for renewal....
...Last month, it was reported that Sprint was in talks with cable companies Comcast and Charter Communications, the latter owned by Mr Malone....
...The company has also been dealing with the fallout from claims of sexual harassment at Fox News Channel, its lucrative cable news network....
...Then Sprint held talks with Comcast and Charter Communications, the two largest US cable providers, which could have seen the companies work more closely together. That seems to have failed....
...Comcast-Dreamworks talks Comcast is in talks to buy DreamWorks Animation for more than $3bn, according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that could make the cable giant a rival to Walt Disney...
...But Fusion has struggled to build significant viewership for its cable channel and is not carried by Comcast....
...The service was launched in 2008 as a joint project of NBCUniversal, now owned by Comcast, and News Corp, then owner of Fox, with Disney taking a stake in 2009....
...Charter Communications unveiled a $90bn-plus plan to become the second-biggest US cable operator on Tuesday, even as regulators pledged to test whether the latest attempt to consolidate the industry was...
...This includes fees associated with the likely collapse of Comcast and TWC’s agreement to sell 3.9m subscribers to Charter Communications, the John Malone-backed cable operator, and Charter’s $10.4bn proposed...
...The end to the 14-month quest to combine America’s two largest US cable and internet providers came after the US communications watchdog recommended a procedural hearing that looked likely to kill the combination...
...Hulu, the online streaming company, has struck a deal with Showtime to offer the premium cable channel’s new internet video service at a discounted rate to Hulu subscribers....
...Charter Communications, the fourth largest cable company in the US, has agreed to buy Bright House Networks in a $10.4bn deal that is contingent on Comcast’s $45bn takeover of Time Warner Cable being cleared...
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