MCN - February 16, 2009

The nation's first "wideband" cable-modem customers (mostly) love the new Comcast services, which lets them hit download speeds up to 50 Mbps. The early verdict, based on interviews with about a dozen early adopters: so far, go good. But can DOCSIS 3.0 really neutralize the telco threat?

• Content
• Reviews
• Originals: More to Come

• Finance
• Bond Market Is Loosening Up
• Macrovision Sees Red in TV Guide
• Agencies Approves Time Warner Cable Split

• Newsline
• Can Dish's Ergen Be Sirius?
• DirecTV Defies Gravity
• Oxygen Finds Its Voice With New Series
• Target Date Moves for DTV Switch
• For the Record
• Mediacom's Pitch: Free Basic 'Til 6/12
• FCC to Draft Broadband's Grand Plan
• 'Rescue Me' Rides Again
• Comcast Hands Off Porn Probe to Feds
• Appeals Court Denies NCTA on Privacy Rule
• New Chapter for Charter
• Coda
• Coda

• People
• People

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• Techs Give Props to Internet Set-Top
• Eyes on DTV Finish Line
• Translation Please
• Cable and the Mobile Future

• Rules
• Copps Backs Minority Owners
• DTV Cash in Stimulus Bill
• Verizon Rebuffed on Retention

• Special Report
• High-Def's Next Step

• Through the Wire
• Through the Wire

• Viewpoint
• Talkback
• Diverging Over Diversity
• Access
• Nets Can Gain From Outsourcing