Cox

Cox Communications Hangs Up Its Wireless Business

Stevie Converse — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:31:02 -0500

Full article: Atlanta Business Chronicle
Urvaksh Karkaria
Atlanta-based Cox Communications will ax more than 100 jobs as it shutters its wireless unit next month. The affected staff included engineers, product development managers, and infrastructure designers.

Verizon Wireless Deal with Cable Company Cox Includes Cross-Promotion

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:03:26 -0500

Full article: Washington Post
Cecilia Kang
Verizon Wireless, widening its advantage over smaller competitors, agreed to buy cellphone airwaves from cable company Cox Communications for $315 million. Like a similar deal struck with cable giants Comcast and Time Warner Cable earlier this month, the nation’s largest wireless carrier will also cross-promote services with Cox so that a customer will be able to buy wireless, landline phone, television and Internet services all in one bundle.

Cox to Stream Live TV to Tablets

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:39:46 -0500

Full article: Light Reading
Jeff Baumgartner
Cox will start streaming linear TV channels to tablets later this year, joining a cable club started by Cablevision and Time Warner Cable.

Cox Takes on AT&T as First Cable Carrier to Start Mobile-Phone Service

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:03:59 -0500

Full article: Bloomberg News
Kelly Riddell
Cox is becoming the first U.S. cable company to offer a mobile-phone service as it looks to challenge incumbents AT&T and Verizon Wireless by bundling wireless handsets with Web and TV.

Google's Chinese Acrobatics and Net Neutrality

Stevie Converse — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:31:02 -0400

Full article: ComputerWorld
Robert X. Cringley
What happens when one powerful entity exercises monolithic control over the Internet. In China, it's the government. Over on this side of the Pacific, that would translate into the big broadband ISPs. Given the opportunity, would a big ISP like Comcast or Charter or AT&T exercise Chinese-like control over Net content? Yes, I think they would.

Court Affirms Cox Did Not Infringe Verizon VoIP Patents

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:05:36 -0400

Full article: Multichannel News
Todd Spangler
A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that Cox Communications did not infringe Verizon patents related to voice-over-IP technology. Verizon had sought $404 in million damages from Cox in the suit, filed in January 2008.

Cox Wraps Internet Congestion-Management Test

Stevie Converse — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:16:07 -0400

Full article: Multichannel News
Todd Spangler
Cox Communications has completed an eight-month test in its Kansas/Arkansas market of a bandwidth-management system designed to reduce upstream congestion, and plans to submit its findings to the FCC as part of the agency's proposed rulemaking on Net Neutrality.

FTTH Deployments Face Predatory Cable Pricing

Stevie Converse — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:58:18 -0400

Full article: Telephony Online
Carol Wilson
Two Louisiana organizations that have succeeded in building fiber-to-the-home networks say they are still facing challenges -- in the form of highly competitive pricing from a cable incumbent. Cox Communications froze cable rates in those communities, but didn't freeze rates in other areas.

Cox to Sell Three Newspapers

Stevie Converse — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:08:35 -0400

Full article: Reuters
Ajay Kamalakaran
Cox Enterprises said that it would sell three of its newspapers, as it seeks to pay down debt. Without disclosing the terms of the sale, the Atlanta-based company said it would sell the Daily Sentinel, the Nickel and the Waco Tribune-Herald. Robinson Media Co will buy the Waco, Texas newspaper, while Grand Junction Media Inc will buy the other two papers,

Operators to Miss Tru2way Deadline

Stevie Converse — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:45:10 -0400

Full article: Multichannel News
Todd Spangler
Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications will not have tru2way interactive-services technology enabled across their entire footprints by July 1, as they had pledged in agreements with consumer-electronics companies. Tru2way lets cable operators deliver interactive TV applications and video programming to any compatible device, such as a set-top box or TV.