Eight years after buying them, Cablevision Systems has sold its wireless spectrum holdings to Dish Network -- raising questions about the long-term future of OMGFast, the unit the MSO set up to deliver 50-Mbps wireless broadband service in South Florida.

Orlando -- Cable and telco broadband providers have spun their moves to cap monthly data usage -- and impose surcharges -- as smoothing out demand and ensuring there’s enough capacity for all subscribers.

While that’s true to some extent, usage-based billing is mainly about extracting more money, according to Kenneth Roulier, chief technology officer of Amdocs’ broadband, cable and satellite division.

Orlando -- It's a day late, but probably not a dollar short.

Comcast has given a shout-out for Arris's Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) strategy, and the nation's largest MSO indicated that it expects to adopt the vendor's E6000 as a stepping stone for future CCAP headend projects.

In the “we need research to tell us this?” category: TV viewers who tuned into Thursday night’s debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan were most likely to rewatch DVR moments of their guy bashing the other side based on their political leanings, according to an analysis by TiVo.

With traditional pay TV, the customer-provider relationship is perfectly clear: You pay your X bucks per month to a cable, satellite or telco operator, and you get TV.

But in the Wild West of over-the-top Internet video, the question of who “owns” the customer is a lot murkier -- and service providers, device makers and OTT players each want to be the customer-facing entity, according to a study from billing-systems vendor Amdocs.