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Comcast is a major US telecom conglomerate offering cable TV, broadband, and phone service under its Xfinity brand, plus NBCUniversal media assets.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says she is minded to intervene in Sky's £1.6bn takeover of ITV's media and entertainment arm. ITV and Sky have until 20 October to respond with reassurances on on-demand programming and news.
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Paramount closed its $111 billion purchase of all Warner Bros. Discovery assets on October 6 and renamed the merged company Skydance. Netflix bid only for the studios and streaming, so CNN now shares an owner with HBO Max and CBS.
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AT&T and T-Mobile fell about 9% and Verizon 6% on Friday morning after SpaceX said it was buying low-band spectrum from Grain Management. That spectrum alone cannot carry a nationwide network, so the carriers' first bill may come at spectrum auctions, where Evercore expects SpaceX to push up prices.
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SpaceX's plan to become a major US mobile carrier cut AT&T and Verizon shares 10% and T-Mobile's 14% on Friday, erasing more than $50 billion in value. JPMorgan and UBS analysts say matching the incumbents would take a ground network SpaceX has yet to build, so business wireless buyers are negotiating against that construction timetable.
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Cable lobby groups for Comcast and Charter plan to sue the FCC over its move to repeal the 39 percent cap on broadcast station reach, Techdirt reported. They argue that merged station groups would extract significantly more money from cable companies, so the cost of carrying local TV is now headed to court.
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A free app update switches on Wi-Fi motion sensing in millions of XB7-or-newer Xfinity gateways. No new hardware, no installer visit, and a new sensing surface inside the house.
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Federal broadband money for California now comes with a promise not to enforce state affordability, net neutrality and public-safety rules against the recipients. The window to contest that promise closes at signature.
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The Series D values the two-year-old marketing startup at $1.8 billion. Its prompt data comes from opted-in consumer panels, and the mention-frequency score a brand sees on the dashboard is a sample estimate.
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Arista scores CVE-2026-7473 at 5.8 and says it is already being exploited. With every EOS train on the affected list, the thing that decides your exposure is whether a given device terminates a tunnel at all.
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The August 14 Section 706 report abolishes the 1Gbps/500Mbps target without replacement, leaving a 20Mbps upstream as the federal number teams design around.
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