Today we learned that Charter Communications, the parent company of Spectrum, has once again lost 405,000 TV customers in the 1st quarter of 2024. This is on top of the 320,000 TV customers it lost in the 4th quarter of 2023. Spectrum did also lose for the second quarter in a row it lost 72,000 …
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Restaurants and retail businesses couldn’t process credit and debit card payments. A financial institution had to close branches. And your local daily newspaper had to overcome technological hurdles to publish. All because a technology that has become second nature to 21st century Berkshire County was rendered useless for several hours by a broken fiberoptic cable …
PITTSFIELD – An internet service outage is affecting central Berkshire County, including The Berkshire Eagle newsroom, amid a windy spring storm. The business, at 75 South Church Street, lost connectivity at about 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday. According to the downdetector.com website there were 22 Spectrum internet outages reported in Pittsfield as of 3:07 p.m. On …
Cable and internet provider Optimum continues to bleed customers at an alarming rate even as it lost money. The company reported fourth-quarter results that showed subscribers were dropping cable TV, broadband, and phone services. For the fourth-quarter, it lost 27,000 internet subscribers, 62,200 cable TV subscribers, and 57.4 million phone subscribers. For the year, those …
Spectrum lost 61,000 internet customers in the fourth quarter, even as the wireless carriers boast huge growth in 5G home internet service. But Christopher Winfrey, CEO of Spectrum parent Charter Communications, doesn’t seem too fazed. “We continue to believe the impact from fixed wireless is temporary,” Winfrey told analysts during a Friday call to discuss …
The three largest telecom companies in the nation, T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T, combined to add nearly 840,000 5G home internet subscribers in the fourth quarter, establishing the legitimacy of Cord Cutting 2.0 and posing a real threat to cable providers like Comcast and Spectrum. T-Mobile was the clear winner of the trio, which all reported …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Spectrum is expanding its services in rural Ray County, Missouri, improving access to high-speed internet near Knoxville and Lawson. Over 770 homes and small businesses in the area will now have access to high-speed broadband reaching 300 megabits per second “Rural broadband is the rural electrification of our time,” Congressman Sam …
Spectrum is quietly raising the rates for some of its services, the second time in less than six months that it is rolling out a price hike. The cable company, owned by Charter Communications, sent a notification to some customers warning them of the increase. Noteworthy is another increase to the Spectrum Internet Assist, which …
Spectrum is offering 1-Gig internet service for $39.99 a month for two years for customers in the Kansas City, Missouri area. This is the same price as Spectrum’s 300 Mbps plan. Spectrum describes the plan as its “fastest internet for smart homes, virtual reality explorers, and instant downloads.” The promotion, spotted earlier by Light Reading, …