BCE Inc. (Bell Canada) (NYSE/Toronto: BCE) isn’t giving up on usage-based broadband, pointing out in a campaign to "educate" subscribers that if Starbucks and gas companies set prices based on consumption, it’s only fair for broadband providers to do the same. (See O, Canada! Netflix Streaming Gets a Reprieve.)
Mediacom Communications Corp. says it didn’t mean to hijack the Web browsers of its cable modem customers last month with ads for its phone service -- it was only testing “in-browser notification technology” from Texas-based PerfTech.
Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) is testing out a service similar to Best Buy’s "Geek Squad," launching Xfinity Signature Support in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn.; Atlanta; and Chattanooga, Tenn.