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News US cable giant Comcast has said the volume of spam originating from its network has dropped 35 per cent since it blocked an email loophole weeks ago. The new data comes after Comcast, the largest broadband service provider in the US, earlier this...
[30 Jun 2004]
News US cable giant Comcast is set to take over AT&T's broadband division in a deal worth $72bn. The deal marks the end of a prolonged courtship, during which Comcast increased its bid several times, creating a cable giant with a subscriber base of...
[20 Dec 2001]
News Comcast and Time Warner Cable are looking to help bankroll a new joint venture between Sprint Nextel and Clearwire to deliver 4G wireless services, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Comcast, the largest cable operator in the US...
[26 Mar 2008]
News US cable television giant Comcast has offered AT&T a whopping $44.5bn for its broadband division. The all-stock bid would involve Comcast taking on $13.5bn of AT&T's outstanding debts, but does call into question the US telecoms giant's...
[09 Jul 2001]
News AT&T has rejected the $53bn bid from Comcast for its cable division. Cable firm Comcast had hoped a takeover of AT&T Broadband would move it from number three to top spot in the US market. Prior to Comcast's unsolicited offer AT&T had...
[19 Jul 2001]
News Comcast and AT&T are planning to resume discussions shortly over the future of the telco's broadband division. AT&T rejected a $53bn offer from Comcast for the business in mid-July, claiming the deal did not represent the true value of the...
[02 Aug 2001]
News Comcast's stuttering deal to buy AT&T Broadband took another step forward yesterday with news that the two companies may exchange as much as $11.8bn of debt in meeting the financial obligations of the deal.
[13 Aug 2002]
News AOL has been blocking emails from top US ISP Comcast and is desperately working to find a fix for its spam-busting system. Affected Comcast subscribers discovered the blocks as early as last Thursday, and they continued to report difficulties...
[10 Jun 2003]
News Armstrong said: "Comcast's offer is serious. Michael Armstrong, chairman of AT&T, has given his opinion on the offer of $40bn for his company's cable division. He promised to look seriously at the offer but suggested the price was too low.
[12 Jul 2001]
News US cable giant Comcast has admitted to spying on its customers and keeping records of every web page they visit. According to US newswires, Comcast claimed it will not share or sell the information to third parties and claimed its actions were...
[13 Feb 2002]
News UK company Pace Micro will be keeping a keen eye on the ongoing negotiations between Comcast and AT&T as any deal could massively bolster its own position. According to the Wall Street Journal Pace has a contract with US cable provider Comcast...
[16 Jul 2001]
News The high-profile squabble over Comcast's slowdown of BitTorrent file-sharing traffic - and broader questions of network handling by ISPs - is set for public scrutiny at a federal hearing today. The FCC in 2005 said broadband companies should not...
[25 Feb 2008]
News Stephen Burch, from US cable company Comcast, will become the new president and CEO of NTL starting on 16 January. NTL is hoping to draw on Burch's experience at Comcast - working on the AT&T Broadband acquisition - to help with NTL's integration...
[16 Dec 2005]
News AT&T will this week decide whether to engage in serious discussions with Comcast over its £28bn bid for the giant telco's cable TV networks business. John Malone, a major shareholder in AT&T, suggested that he would support Comcast's offer...
[16 Jul 2001]
News Shares in AT&T gained 0.90 per cent on the NYSE yesterday after the company finalised a $72bn broadband merger with US cable network company Comcast. On Nasdaq shares in Comcast fell 2.61 per cent following the news.
[20 Dec 2001]
News According to reports, merger talks opened shortly after Comcast, AOL Time Warner's own cable division, made an unsuccessful $40bn stock-swap bid for AT&T Broadband. However, a potential deal could involve Comcast buying AT&T Broadband but...
[25 Jul 2001]
News AT&T originally planned to spin off its cable TV unit earlier this year, but postponed the move in July after rejecting a $44.5bn offer from US cable provider Comcast. Following the failed Comcast bid, AT&T set a 30 November deadline for...
[16 Nov 2001]
News Last month it agreed to sell its cable operations to Comcast and its wireless unit was spun off earlier this year. Comcast seals $72m AT&T deal http://www.silicon.com/a50064 AT&T president David Dorman has resigned from the 3Com board of...
[21 Jan 2002]
News The offer is 17 per cent higher than the bid made by US telecoms giant Comcast last month, which is still under review. AT&T is taking advantage of a 45 day open period which MediaOne negotiated with Comcast, in which the cable company is...
[23 Apr 1999]
News No money has changed hands, but Excite@Home has given up responsibility for its strategic direction, and has evicted other distributors - Cox and Comcast - from the boardroom. Cox and Comcast have agreed to continue distributing Excite@Home until...
[30 Mar 2000]
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