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What's In Store for the Future of Work?

Over the last couple of decades, researchers have been developing technologies like artificial intelligence and light field displays and exploring ways they can be incorporated into our daily lives. That’s also true of the team at CableLabs, the cable industry’s R&D arm. This week, CableLabs released the latest video of the Near Future series, which gives viewers a peek at
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Comcast's Internet Essentials Connects 8 Million People

Comcast announced this week that its broadband adoption program, Internet Essentials, has connected more than eight million people who qualify for low-cost internet service since the program's inception in 2011. Three million more households, including people with disabilities, are eligible to apply for the $9.95 a month service in the latest expansion. This marks the program’s largest expansion in history
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Why Internet is Essential to America’s Agriculture

While many might associate business and technology with large urban hubs like Silicon Valley, small towns across the U.S. are showing that there are plenty of opportunities to be found in rural America. The availability of gigabit internet speeds is one method that is proving to transform rural areas. As America's cable operators continue to build out robust networks that
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Getting Broadband Mapping Right

With the FCC this week expected to reform its broadband data collection regime, it seems like a good opportunity to assess the potential impact of these changes. From NCTA's perspective, there are four key points. First, the data collection changes proposed by the FCC represent a significant victory for consumers, meaningfully improving the accuracy of broadband maps and enabling a
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Discovery's Shark Week Evolves with New Technology and Jaw-some Views

It's Shark Week, a TV fan favorite and that time of year when viewers and shark seekers galore get to "dive in" with the great creatures that have fascinated people all over the world for centuries. Discovery's 31st edition of the production kicked off yesterday, and viewers are in for a wild ride as the evolving technology behind the annual
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How Super-Fast Internet Revitalized Small Businesses in a Small Town

Over time, many Americans have moved to large urban centers to follow jobs, often in the technology sector, leaving smaller towns behind. For a place like St. Francis in northwestern Kansas, that meant the population was actually shrinking. On top of that, internet service was slow and unreliable. “We had a lot of problems just maintaining a stream of music
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Excessive Pole Rates are Stifling Rural Broadband Investment and Deployment

The majority of consumers today enjoy high-speed broadband in their homes, and America's cable operators have invested more than $290 billion over the past two decades to reach nearly every community. But deploying wireline broadband networks, especially to rural and remote areas, is a massive undertaking of cost, time, and effort. One box along the way that internet service providers
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What Technology Do NASA and the Cable Industry Share in Common?

The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing has Americans all over the country in celebratory mode as people everywhere honor humankind's achievement through various events, gatherings, and TV specials. Years prior to the internet and digital era, that same voyage that brought fame to the names Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin also gave the nation a taste of
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Cable Continues to Dominate with 325 Emmy Nominations

The 71st Primetime Emmy nominations were announced earlier this week, and cable programming sure made a statement as the industry came away with a staggering 325 nominations. Cable is the clear front runner, ahead of all streaming and broadcast programming, as it goes into this year's Emmy Awards Show which will air in September. HBO led all networks with the
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$450 Billion: What the Cable Industry Means to the American Economy

A new report shows that the significant economic impact made by America's cable industry has reached a new high of $450 billion, up $29 billion since 2017. The report from Bortz Media & Sports Group computed the industry's investments in next-generation broadband infrastructure that reaches nearly every community, the award-winning programming that continues to entertain and inform consumers everywhere, and
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