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Bits, Bytes, What's the Difference?
(old news - 03:49PM Friday Dec 19 2003)
In today's SunSpot.net, Comcast announces a broadband upgrade: "Comcast said it invested nearly $50 million in the upgrade. City residents who sign up for broadband service will get an always-on connection at speeds of up to 3 mega bits per second downstream and 256 kilo bits per second upstream." That seems like a pretty big difference from the upgrade Comcast announced in Delaware yesterday: "The company boosted the download speed from about 1.5 mega bytes per second to 3 mega bytes without increasing the $42.95 monthly fee, said Kirstie Durr, with the Nevis and Associates public relations firm, which represents Comcast." Looks like Kirstie isn't aware that Comcast raised the price of HSI to $57.95. Read the full articles here: Comcast Cable installs broadband upgrade in city, Business digest, 12/19/2003 Comcast doubles Internet speed by Steven Church, 12/18/2003
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J D McDorce
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Westland, MI | Re: Melting Comcast's fiber Do you get the impression that someone typo'ed a common press release?  | |
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insomniac
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clubs: | Price is correct for TV customers Well, it's still $42.95 if you have their cable TV service, and I think most Comcast Internet customers do.
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teddystacker
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Philadelphia, PA | Re: Price is correct for TV customers Also the guy do not remember that 3.00mb was the speed prior to Feb 2002,when Comcast cut the speed by 50% - these people have very short memories  | |
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callihn4
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| Re: Price is correct for TV customers said by teddystacker  :
Also the guy do not remember that 3.00mb was the speed prior to Feb 2002,when Comcast cut the speed by 50% - these people have very short memories
Exaaaaaaaactly!!!
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Floppy
join:2002-07-03 | Re: Price is correct for TV customers The catv requirement is valid for all Comcast areas.
Remember the media writes what they want to report and may/usually leaves out other details. | |
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J D McDorce
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Westland, MI | Re: Price is correct for TV customers Although there are cases where the media writes what they are told - with some of the details being left out by the person providing them with the information. | |
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Floppy
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December 19th, @11:37PM
| Re: Price is correct for TV customers said by JTRockville :
Doesn't Comcast own some media outlets?
I looked to see who owned delawareonline, and here's what it said:
This www.delawareonline.com website (the “Service” ) is owned and operated by [corporate name of website owner]
I couldn't find any additional information about "[corporate name of website owner]" though.
delawareonline.com is owned by a newspaper called "The News Journal.
Comcast doesn't own any news media co. (yet) | |
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Epikos
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December 23rd, @06:26AM
| A whois on the domain leads me to believe that 'The News Journal' is owned by someone called Information Network, Inc, GanSat. AKA; Gannett Media Technologies International (GMTI), a subsidiary of Gannett Co.
Corporate Overview
Gannett Co., Inc. is a leading international news and information company that reaches audiences through publishing, television and the Internet. Gannett is the largest newspaper group in the U.S. where it publishes 100 daily newspapers including USA TODAY, the nation's largest-selling daily newspaper. Gannett’s combined average daily U.S. circulation is 7.7 million and 7.2 million on Sunday. Gannett also owns almost 500 non-daily publications in the US and USA WEEKEND, a weekly newspaper magazine with a circulation of 23.7 million.
And on the usatoday website i get "© Copyright 2003 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc."
It doesn't appear that Gannett is owned or operated by any of the 9 major media corporations - I think they are their own entity.
All information is verifiable. Research done on
www.Google.com
»www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline···/giants/
»www.fair.org/extra/9711/gmg.html
»www.gannett.com/
www.USATODAY.com
www.netsol.com
And information used to verify gansat's relations as a subsidiary to Gannett inc was found at www.ftc.gov
Also, delawareonline displays two Gannett logos on the bottom of their website, along with one of USATODAY, a subsidiary of Gannett – as stated above.
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callihn4
join:2002-01-10
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| Re: Nybbles? OK since there are 8 bits per byte or 2 nibbles in a byte that would come to:
3000000Mb / 4N = 750000N or .75MN
But I am tired and somewhat sleep deprived this morning.
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