The Q3 2025 inflation adjustment figure for cable operators using Form 1240 is 3.76%, said the FCC Media Bureau and Office of Economics and Analytics in Thursday's Daily Digest. In the year-ago quarter, it was 1.94%.

Cable One said Monday that it's buying out Vyve Broadband, in which it already has a 45% stake. Full ownership of Vyve will provide "a larger and more geographically diversified operating footprint in attractive markets and unlock efficiency opportunities from increased scale," Cable One said. The purchase price will be $475 million-$495 million, based on Vyve's adjusted earnings and total debt, and the transaction should close by Oct. 1. Vyve had roughly 675,000 passings across the Southeast, Northwest and Mid-South U.S. as of Sept. 30, according to Cable One.

DigitalBridge and Crestview Partners said Wednesday they had closed on their acquisition of WideOpenWest. The $1.5 billion all-cash deal was announced in August (see 2508120031). Crestview President Brian Cassidy said that as a private company, WOW "will have strategic flexibility and resources to compete more effectively in its markets and pursue long-term growth."

Charter Communications and Cox Communications are justifying their planned $34.5 billion combination on flawed premises, a Public Knowledge-led group said in an FCC posting Tuesday (docket 25-233). PK, Communications Workers of America, the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society and the Center for Accessible Technology have petitioned to block Charter/Cox (see 2511190049), and the filing was a reply to the Charter and Cox response (see 2512050028)

Mediacom said Tuesday that it's expanding eligibility for its low-cost broadband service to first responders. The Xtream Connect plan is $30 per month and is available to households in Mediacom's footprint that participate in federal programs such as Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Offering the reduced rate plan for first responders is "our way of saying thank you,” said Tapan Dandnaik, Mediacom's senior vice president of operations, product strategy and consumer experience.

WideOpenWest, the subject of litigation over its disclosures about its forthcoming purchase by Digital Bridge and Crestview Partners, said Tuesday in an SEC filing that it was adding to its proxy statement. WOW said it didn't think supplemental disclosures were needed, but it made them in order to avoid the risk of delaying the special meeting of stockholders. The new information included the aggregate value of unvested shares held by WOW board members.

Comcast will pay $1.5 million for a vendor breach that compromised personally identifiable information of cable subscribers, the FCC Enforcement Bureau ordered Monday. The company will also implement a compliance plan that includes vendor oversight practices related to customer privacy and information protection, the bureau said. The 2024 data breach involved information about 237,702 current and former Comcast customers that was held by debt-collection firm Financial Business and Consumer Solutions.

The Public Knowledge-led petition seeking various conditions on or denial of the Charter/Cox deal (see 2511190049) "may have set a new low bar for extreme hyperbole," Free State Foundation President Randolph May wrote Friday. The combined company clearly wouldn't enjoy gatekeeping power over internet distribution, and the communications and media landscape is seeing vigorous competition among cable, fiber, satellite, fixed wireless, wireless and hybrid facilities-based platforms, May said. "Talk of 'gatekeeper power' may have been slightly relevant in the early 2000s," he argued. "Now it's downright frivolous."

Charter Communications' proposed acquisition of Cox Communications would mean more gatekeeper power over internet distribution, less competition, higher prices and unequal treatment of underserved communities, according to a petition to deny filed Tuesday (docket 25-233) with the FCC. Petitioners Public Knowledge, the Communications Workers of America, the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society and the Center for Accessible Technology laid out an array of criticisms of the deal, including over plans to cut Cox employees and their prediction of price hikes on consumers enabled by market concentration.

Just over 40% of apartment renters expect that their internet service will be “ready-to-go” the moment they move in, said a new survey by Parks Associates, released Monday by Comcast’s Xfinity Communities. "With today's renters skewing older, more family-oriented, and often working remotely, robust digital infrastructure is a requirement," said Kristen Hanich, Parks' director of research.