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The Cable Company That Wants to Take the Pain Out of Streaming

Streaming your favorite shows and movies is fun. Less fun: paying for six different services, remembering multiple passwords, figuring out which service has which program—and toggling to live TV so you can watch news and sports. Guess who says he can help? The cable guy.Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Streaming your favorite shows and movies is fun. Less fun: paying for six different services, remembering multiple passwords, figuring out which service

AT&T Is Spending Billions to Wire U.S. for Fast Internet as Rivals Take Different Path

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The Regulators of Facebook, Google and Amazon Also Invest in the Companies’ Stocks

The top watchdog of American business is also home to Washington’s most active Wall Street investors.The Federal Trade Commission in recent years has opened investigations into nearly every major industry. It has launched antitrust probes into technology companies, examined credit card firms and moved to restrict drug, energy and defense-company mergers. At the same time, senior officials at the FTC disclosed more trades of stocks, bonds and funds, on average, than officials at any other major agency in a…

Charter CEO Tom Rutledge to Retire After Leading Cable Firm for Decade

Charter Communications Inc. CHTR -0.06% Chief Executive Tom Rutledge is retiring from the company he has led for the past decade, a time of acquisitions that transformed the cable operator into the industry’s second-largest company. Charter said Wednesday that Chris Winfrey, its current chief operating officer and former finance chief, would become the company’s next CEO,…

Faster Internet Is Coming to America—as Soon as the Government Knows Where to Build It

WASHINGTON—The government’s $42.5 billion plan to expand internet service to underserved communities is stuck in a holding pattern nearly nine months after approval, largely because authorities still don’t know where gaps need to be filled.The broadband plan, part of the $1 trillion infrastructure bill signed by President Biden last November, stipulates that money to improve service can’t be doled out until the Federal Communications Commission completes new maps showing where homes and businesses lack fast service.…

Charter Communications Hit With $7 Billion in Punitive Damages for 2019 Customer Murder

A Texas jury on Tuesday found Charter Communications Inc. liable for $7 billion in punitive damages after finding the cable company responsible for one of its employees who robbed and killed a customer three years ago. In 2019, 83-year-old Betty Thomas was killed by Roy Holden Jr., one of Charter’s cable technicians. Mr. Holden had performed a service call at Mrs. Thomas’s home, and when he returned the following day, he stole credit cards from Mrs. Thomas’s purse and then stabbed her…

Vegas Company Promised Fast Internet. Rural America Waits…and Waits.

More than 18 months later, many of those rural communities are still waiting for broadband. That is because a little-known Las Vegas company that won a bid to implement the program missed filing deadlines and failed to secure regulatory approvals needed to receive the money. The situation serves as a cautionary tale as the federal government rolls out yet another costly program—this one with a price tag of $42.5 billion—to deploy broadband to rural areas. “It’s frustrating to see that there were dollars…

Vegas Company Promised Fast Internet. Rural America Waits…and Waits

More than 18 months later, many of those rural communities are still waiting for broadband. That is because a little-known Las Vegas company that won a bid to implement the program missed filing deadlines and failed to secure regulatory approvals needed to receive the money. The situation serves as a cautionary tale as the federal government rolls out yet another costly program—this one with a price tag of $42.5 billion—to deploy broadband to rural areas. “It’s frustrating to see that there were dollars…