Anand Ablack from news.com reports:

Time Warner and Comcast on Monday restructured ownership terms for a pair of cable systems jointly owned by both companies.

The companies agreed to merge their joint venture cable systems in Kansas City, Mo., and Texas into one centrally run business for the next two years. Both companies will own 50 percent of the combined cable network, and Time Warner Cable will continue to run the business’ daily operations.

OK, I know adelphia.net was bought by both, so does this mean that some of the comcast subscribers who were moved from plcaes like adelphia are going to get better internet? One can hope so.

Much of Time Warner’s desires stem from overall growth in the cable sector. Cable companies have maintained a healthy lead in the broadband market over rival technologies such as digital subscriber line access. Cable companies also have begun bundling broadband and voice services into their core video assets.

Time Warner Chief Executive Richard Parsons in recent weeks has said he wants to resolve the media giant’s ownership entanglement with Comcast. Now that issues regarding these joint ventures have been temporarily resolved, Time Warner is expected to try to unravel Comcast’s 21 percent ownership of Time Warner Cable, according to public statements.

I don’t know if this will effect me, as I am not in the states mentioned, but will this cause a shift in all of the cable companies that the two megaconglomerate providers bought. I can only hope so.

My cable modem has been attempting to reboot every day or so, and the bast day or two at about 1 am. Well, most of the time, it needs help rebooting. By that I mean that I have to unplug the power toget it to finally resync. On Halloween, a call to the tech unsupport of comcast met with the traditional, “the error must be on your end.” Thothe first tech I talked to did not deny the “traffic shaping” from BT traffic, as I clearly stated to them, at times I watch liuve tech streams on ustream.tv. I also went to ask if I had been flagged for anything, since I am sending a lot of data that way.The 2nd tech went as far as to read my modem for the past seven days just to see. Then I got a really strange answer.. One that perplxed me as much as my answer did him.

Comcast tech: I show your modem off yesterday, October 30th from just after midnight till about midnight this morning.

me: Uh, it went down for a bit at about 1:11 am. Tho I was on it last night.

tech: You sure?

me: Yes, as I was on mIRC and watching Chris Pirillo and wirelesspacket on ustream.

tech: weird.

Yeah.. My modem shows off while I am on.. I think comcast has their router stuck up their ASDN line.

BTW, on a side note, and stemming from the “fake blood recipe” from yesterday, I am again doing tech work for theatre. I got called by the head of the Water’s State Community College Drama Department, Mr. Jerry Maloy about doing light for “Shenandoah”. Not bad, as I love it.. It’s just this is the last rehersal for th show, and the student who was operating the light board flaked on them at the last minute. Lighting designer, and Encore Theatrical Comany Artistic Director, Micah-Shane Brewer will be there tonight to show me where the tricky parts of the show happen. I mean, as long as I dont hit the button marked GO at the wrong point and go into a blackout too fast or anything.

[tags]comcast, time warner, cable, broadband, business[/tags]