Tech News at TechWhack (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Cablevision launches Wi-Fi network in USA Cablevision Systems has announced the launch of what they claim is the largest and most advanced consumer Wi-Fi network in the US market. The company said that their network now covers Nassau County and areas of Suffolk County in addition to commuter rail and parking areas in New York’s Long Island. This [...]
Mobile Tech Today (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Cablevision Systems Corp. said Thursday it has finished the first phase of its wireless network buildout in New York and remains on track to complete the project in two years. The diversified cable operator is offering the Wi-Fi service at no charge to its 2.4 million Internet customers at speeds of up to 1.5 Megabits per second, similar to DSL at home. The company currently doesn't have plans to offer...
ZD Net Blog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Cablevision Systems, one of the biggest cable providers in the New York City metro area, announced that it's completed the first stage of a massive Wi-Fi network project called Optimum WiFi that will eventually cover the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tri-state area. The company says that its wireless networking equipment now covers a healthy section of Long Island, including the area around the various...
cellular-news (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Cablevision Systems said Thursday it has finished the first phase of its wireless network buildout in New York and remains on track to complete the project in two years.
Post I.T. (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
Could this be the start of a change in guard at the Federal Communications Commission? Catherine Bohigian, chief of the office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis, announced Friday that she is leaving the agency Sept. 5 to join Cablevision Systems Corp. The office is charged with advising FCC chairman, Kevin J. Martin, and other commissioners on strategy and planning. Bohigian has worked closely...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Citigroup downgrades Cablevision Systems to sell from buy, saying that the stock’s premium valuation to its peers is unlikely to last and that the company’s susceptible to market-share erosion at the hands of Verizon Communications.
Business Week (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Jefferies analyst Arthur Henderson tells S&P MarketScope that Healthways' () premium-priced offering is less attractive to customers looking to reduce discretionary spending, and its "low-touch" call center strategy seems to be losing ground to new, lower priced, "higher-touch" models that offer payors, physicians, patients more robust approaches to DM (disease management)/wellness.
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Cablevision shares have skyrocketed recently , as the company has made repeated pronouncements about its intention to boost the stock price, somehow, some way. Time to get out now, says Citi, which is cutting the stock from buy to sell : Cablevision Systems (CVC) was cut to sell from buy at Citigroup, with the broker saying the premium to peers will fade and that the majority of directors are now...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Cablevision Systems was cut to sell from buy at Citigroup, with the broker saying the premium to peers will fade and that the majority of directors are now aligned with Class B shareholders. "Although Cablevision has thus far proved immune to FiOS, we wonder how long this can last. Indeed, investors now have the expectation that Cablevision won't lose any customers to FiOS....
New York Post (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
Harbinger Capital Partners, the hedge fund that placed directors on the board of New York Times Co., yesterday said it is looking at all options for Cablevision Systems after raising its stake in the company to 8.1 percent. Officials from the $25...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
Cablevision Systems Corp.'s newest major shareholder, a hedge fund known for shaking up underperforming companies, said Friday that it did not plan to be passive.
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
A hedge fund that recently became the fourth-largest outside investor in Cablevision Systems Corp. said Friday it wants to meet with the company.
New York Post (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
SAN FRANCISCO - Activist investor Harbinger Capital increased its stake in Cablevision Systems Corp to 8.1 percent in the last week, making it the cable operator's fourth largest external investor, according to a regulatory filing yesterday. The...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Cablevision Systems Corp. said Friday it will pay its first-ever dividend in September, a conciliatory move towards shareholders as the company seeks to boost its stock price. The decision by the diversified cable operator, which also owns Madison Square...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Cablevision Systems Corp. said Friday it will pay its first-ever dividend in September, a conciliatory move towards shareholders as the company seeks to boost its stock price.
