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Submitted by benton on Tue, 01/31/2023 - 16:59Why Russia’s “disconnection” from the Internet isn’t amounting to much
Rumors of Russian Internet services degrading have been greatly exaggerated, despite unprecedented announcements recently from two of the world’s biggest backbone providers that they were exiting the country following its invasion of Ukraine. Just as ISPs provide links connecting individuals or organizations to the Internet, backbone services are the service providers that connect ISPs in one part of the world with those elsewhere. These so-called transit providers route massive amounts of traffic from one ISP or backbone to another.
New York orders Charter out of state, says it must sell Time Warner Cable system
The New York State Public Service Commission voted to revoke its approval of Charter Communications' 2016 purchase of Time Warner Cable. The PSC said it is ordering Charter to sell the former TWC system that it purchased in New York, and it's "bring[ing] an enforcement action in State Supreme Court to seek additional penalties for Charter's past failures and ongoing noncompliance." Charter has repeatedly failed to meet deadlines for broadband expansions that were required in exchange for merger approval, state officials said.