Results tagged “roadrunner”

There's something we've been wondering ever since we heard about Houston's coming municipal Wi-Fi network, and the Chronicle's Alexis Grant has finally asked the question for us: How well is the network going to work? The answer: not too badly, but don't get your hopes up — it'll be a step up from dial-up, but not nearly as fast as home cable Internet service.

This summer, we heard about Comcast replacing Time Warner as our local cable company, and word back then was that the switch wouldn't happen until after the first of the year. Well, barely: The Chronicle reports that Comcast will take over Jan. 1, though we won't really see changes until later. Comcast officials said they don't want to make any abrupt changes that might scare people away from cable and over to satellite TV —...

Time Warner exiting and Comcast entering the Houston market is now official. The planned switch is bringing up more questions from customers. The most pressing issue is for Time Warner Road Runner internet customers. Those who use “houston.rr.com” will most likely have to change their e-mail address to Comcast’s standard next year. As we all know, changing your e-mail address sometimes means losing touch with people who you haven’t been in contact with in a...

Yesterday, reporters received early word that Time Warner will be leaving the Houston market and Comcast will take over the operations locally. The official announcement happens today. The news came from an internal e-mail at Time Warner. What does this mean for Houstonians? We’ll know more later as time goes on. But we compared rates with a city that has Comcast, Boston. Here, Time Warner charges $48 for standard digital cable service; in Boston,...