Nebu Ad - NebuAd's ISP Partners

NebuAd's ISP Partners

ISPs which trialled or deployed or prepared to deploy Nebuad included:

The following ISPs are listed in legal documents related to the class action notice (see below) as having deployed NebuAd hardware:

• AllCities
• Annapolis Wireless Internet
• AzulStar, Inc.
• Bresnan Communications, LLC
• Cable One, Inc.
• Casco Communications/Peak Internet
• Cavalier Broadband, LLC
• CenturyTel, Inc.; CenturyTel Broadband
• Services, LLC; CenturyTel Service Group, LLC
• CMS Internet LLC
• Eastern Oregon Network, Inc.
• Education Networks of America (ENA)
• Embarq Management Co.; United Telephone
• Co. of Eastern Kansas
• Fire2Wire
• Galaxy Internet Services
• Grande Communications
• High Speed Data Inc.
• 20/20 Communications
• iBahn General Holdings
• Knology, Inc.
• Mesa Networks, Inc.
• Millennium Digital Media Systems/Broadstripe
• Network Evolution, Inc.
• Nexicom Inc.
• Ricochet Networks, Inc.
• Rochester Telephone Company, Inc.
• Softcom Internet Communications
• United Online/NetZero
• Unplugged Cities
• WideOpen West Finance, LLC (WOW)

All ISPs have ended or suspended their relationship with NebuAd.

• Charter Communications suspended its plans to test NebuAd following scrutiny from lawmakers and privacy groups.
• An Embarq spokesperson told the Associated Press that it ended its trial with NebuAd, and has not decided whether to move forward with Behavioral Targeting advertising "either through NebuAd or with any other vendor".
• CenturyTel, one of the earliest known ISPs to test NebuAd, notified customers in late May 2008 that it was deploying the hardware, only to pull out of the deal alongside of Charter a month later.
• Bresnan Communications used the NebuAd technology. Following the announcements by Charter, Embarq, and CenturyTel that they would no longer use NebuAd on their networks, Bresnan told a blogger that their NebuAd trial had ended and they would comply with whatever regulatory model emerges from the current debate.
• Web cache evidence indicated that Blackfoot Telecommunications Group, Inc. of Missoula, Montana appeared to have tried NebuAd between March and May 2008. Blackfoot's Mary Worden later explained, "Blackfoot tested NebuAd on its internal corporate network, with employees only and not with its customers, in March 2008, but had similar concerns to those raised by consumer groups and elected not to launch the service."
• Nexicom, serving Central Ontario and the Kawarthas, Canada, notified users via its Privacy Policy page that it was using NebuAd as of April 23, 2008. Following a question to users on a public forum, Nexicom's Paul Stewart replied, "Nexicom was investigating using the NebuAd service. The software was never implemented at any time as there were concerns on several levels regarding privacy issues. References to NebuAd in Nexicom's Privacy Policy has been removed."
• WOW! (formerly Wide Open West) completed suspension of NebuAd services on July 9. In a response to customer inquiries, WOW! indicated, "With Congress in active review of online behavioral advertising, WOW! Internet- Cable- Phone is suspending its deployment of NebuAd services to our subscribers at this time. We believe that all parties are best served by a thoughtful and thorough review of this emerging advertising model, and we welcome the opportunity for that discussion to take place."
• Knology reported to the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce that it discontinued a trial of NebuAd in all markets as of July 14, 2008.
• Unbeknownst to its users, Cable One conducted NebuAd tests on 14,000 customers in Alabama for six months beginning in November 2007. As of August 2008, Cable One had decided against using the technology "commercially" on its systems but in September said it was waiting for "clear rules and boundaries".