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By MAE ANDERSON, AP Technology Writer, San Francisco Chronicle
Mon, 10/20/2014 - 10:44am

NEW YORK (AP) — Cord cutters rejoiced last week after HBO and CBS announced plans to sell stand-alone streaming services, a move that cable and satellite television providers have resisted for years. [...] smooth streaming costs money: to avoid so-called "throttling" during peak evening viewing times, Netflix buckled to broadband distributors like Comcast and Verizon and paid up so that its streaming service would run at a higher bandwidth and work more smoothly. The cable and satellite television industry is going through major consolidation, to mitigate the higher cost each year of carriage fees that the networks charge for their channels and boost pricing power. [...] HBO said its stand-alone HBO Go service is largely aimed at the 10 million U.S.

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