But if I were to replace my Comcast cable subscription with an Internet-only service, I would then begin to cut into my Comcast Internet data cap.
Those fines followed Mr. Martin's decision on Sunday to launch a formal investigation into Comcast's Internet phone practices.
He also is talking with Comcast's Internet-access service, Yahoo Japan, Microsoft's MSNonline service and wireless carriers about distributing the RipeTVformat to an international audience that, he insists, could include 300million homes and cell phones by 2006.
Court of Appeals in Comcast vs. the FCC ruled that the FCC was indeed trying to regulate the Internet in their net neutrality enforcement action against Comcast, and that the FCC had no such statutory authority to regulate broadband or the Internet.
Xfinity iPad app is a nice piece of work, he says, and they (Comcast) are developing real Internet DNA. He says they will be a substantial competitor, and that they are both learning from each other.
Xfinity, it says, is unlike Internet video services like Netflix because it travels over Comcast's own private network and not the public Internet.
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So are we about to see a fight between Apple, and cable and Internet companies such as Comcast?
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That, Eli worries, will force Comcast to raise the cost of basic Internet access to compensate for the lost revenue.
Comcast added a record number of new Internet users in its third quarter, leading to a 40% increase in broadband revenues.
Andrew Johnson of Comcast thinks customers will continue to use a cable Internet connection because it's better.
In response to consumer concerns about caps on heavy data users, Comcast is revising its rules for high-speed Internet subscribers.
Mr. ANDREW JOHNSON (Comcast): When our customers connect to the Internet, they're going to be using the most reliable and powerful high-speed connection around.
The Comcast investment allows Microsoft to explore the ways that the Internet can enhance television and vice versa.
Comcast bundles its services together combining video, voice and Internet.
Comcast says the fiber will be used for high-speed Internet, not video, but competitors aren't comforted.
Comcast Cable is the nation's largest video, high-speed Internet and phone provider to residential customers under the XFINITY brand and also provides these services to businesses.
But since EarthLink will have to cover the additional cost of leasing local lines, the product is likely to be more expensive than the more traditional VoIP services offered by cable companies such as Comcast (nyse: CMCSA - news - people ) Internet voice vendors such as Vonage , and EarthLink itself.
Higher ratings translate into more advertising revenue, even though Comcast gets two-thirds of its revenue as a cable-TV and Internet access provider.
Comcast uses Nielsen BuzzMetrics, a firm that scours blogs, message boards and other Internet hangouts for conversations about clients.
Comcast Cable is one of the nation's largest video, high-speed Internet and phone providers to residential and business customers.
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Wholesale Internet carrier Level 3 quickly cited the new rules in a fight with Comcast over how much it would pay to stream data to Comcast customers.
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As an example of this collaboration, the City of Seattle has proposed implementation of the Great Student Initiative, an effort to form new partnerships with information, communication and technology companies including Microsoft, Comcast, One Economy and lenders to provide low-cost, high-speed Internet access, computer, software and services for low-income students in the Seattle Public Schools.
Comcast Cable Communications is one of the nation's largest video, high-speed Internet and phone providers to residential and business customers.
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In other words, Comcast can only offer a full diversity of programming if it offers its users high-speed Internet access.
Comcast unveils digital phone service and creates division to develop the company's Web portals and acquire Internet businesses.
Comcast (nasdaq: CMCSA - news - people ) is about to throw its considerable weight behind internet-based telephony.
Two little words that could potentially give new life to copper, at least in the high-speed internet department, have found their way into the news once again, and this time it's Comcast who's showing us just what channel bonding can do.
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