Tag archive: Cox

Number-three mobile operator Sprint has filed separate lawsuits against Time Warner, Comcast, Cox Communications, and Cable One, alleging the companies violate a dozen Sprint patents related to digital phone technology. The patents in the suits date back to the 1990s, and some of them are the same patents that Sprint used back in 2007 to extract an $80 million settlement from Vonage over its VoIP operations. In all the complaints, Sprint says… Read More

Earlier this week, Roku rolled out an update that offered access to the HBO GO application. Assuming that a Roku owner is currently subscribed to an approved provider, users can download the application and watch the latest in HBO original programming. However, HBO doesn't provide any method to subscribe directly to the service due to existing relationships with cable and satellite companies. A Roku owner must be subscribed to HBO through… Read More

Announced last week, NBC brought an update to its iPad application which allows users to watch ad-supported episodes of 28 popular NBC shows including The Office, Community, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, America's Got Talent, Chuck, 30 Rock and The Biggest Loser. Oddly, this eliminates a reason for iPad owners to subscribe to Hulu Plus, the streaming video company that's partly owned by NBCUniversal and currently up for sale to the… Read More

In an unusual move, Atlanta-based cable operator Cox Communications is getting into the mobile phone business, making a so-called “quadruple play”—TV, Internet, landline phone, and mobile phone—in three regional markets that cover some 1.5 million customers. And to entice customers to switch over from other mobile operators, Cox is offering an “Unbelievably Fair” MoneyBack Minutes program, whereby customers… Read More

DVR pioneer TiVo and regional cable operator Cox Communications have announced a partnership whereby Cox video-on-demand services will be accessible to Cox subscribers via TiVo set-top boxes. Although TiVo has explored software partnerships with operators like Comcast, the deal marks the first time a cable operator and third-party retail DVR have partnered to provide on-demand content. The service will be available to Cox cable subscribers… Read More

Cable TV, satellite and other video providers have asked the government to intervene in ongoing fee disputes with TV networks — big-money conflicts that are expected to escalate this year as more contracts expire. The most recent showdown left millions of Cablevision Systems Corp. customers around New York without an ABC station at the start of the Academy Awards. About 15 minutes into the show, a scrolling announcement told viewers that a… Read More

Cox Cable has introduced a new traffic management system on its broadband network that will "momentarily" throttle data transfers on content it deems less time-sensitive—like file uploads, P2P applications, and Usenet—during periods of network congestion. The new system will be tested in Kansas and Arkansas, and expended to other Cox markets if the trials go well. According to Cox, the new system automatically… Read More

Cable operator Cox Communications has had its eye on wireless services for a while, putting a substantial amount of money into spectrum licenses in the 700 MHz band the FCC auctioned off earlier this year and which will become available once analog TV shuts off in the United States. Since then, Cox has bought up between $500 and $550 million in wireless capacity in its cable markets—New Orleans, San Diego, Omaha, Las Vegas, Kansas,… Read More

Fresh from winning its EchoStar patent suit—even if a just has put a hold on actually shutting down infringing EchoStar DVR units for the time being—a strangely resurgent TiVo announced yesterday it has reached a deal with Cox Communications to supply software for DVR units offered by the cable operator. Financial terms of the arrangement were not disclosed. Under the terms of the deal, TiVo will provide a customized version of… Read More

These improvements are designed to further increase the robust recording capabilities and navigation of the service. In addition to current DVR functionality such as the ability to record a program to watch at a later time, record high-definition programming (viewable only with an HDTV set or monitor) and pause and rewind live TV – the new dual tuner functionality allows customers to record two programs simultaneously while watching a… Read More

From the Verisign press release: VeriSign, Inc. and Cox Communications today announced that Cox has implemented VeriSign NetDiscoveryServices to help ensure compliance of its Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)-based cable telephony services with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). Cox Communications launched its 12th telephony market in December 2003 in Roanoke, Va., and its first using VoIP technology.… Read More