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(credit: Mike Mozart) Comcast customers in Washington state should check their bills for unwanted charges, State Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a consumer alert issued this week. Ferguson filed a $ 100 million lawsuit against Comcast in August 2016, accusing the nation’s largest ISP of misleading customers in order to tack $ 5 onto […]
Though TiVo and Comcast just wrapped up a round of patent infringement litigation, TiVo’s looking for another go. Yesterday, it filed lawsuits in California and Massachusetts alleging that Comcast’s X1 set-top boxes are infringing on no less than eight of its patents. “Through decades-long investment in research and development, Rovi has created innovations that delight […]
Enlarge (credit: Google Fiber) AT&T and Comcast have solidified a court victory over the metro government in Nashville, Tennessee, nullifying a rule that was meant to help Google Fiber compete against the incumbent broadband providers. The case involved Nashville’s “One Touch Make Ready” ordinance that was supposed to give Google Fiber and other new ISPs […]
BI Intelligence This story was delivered to BI Intelligence “Fintech Briefing” subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. IBM and Comcast Ventures, the telco giant’s VC arm, have announced that they will provide support services and funding, respectively, for MState, a new accelerator and investment fund for startups developing blockchain solutions for large enterprises. MState […]
(credit: Comcast) Comcast reportedly fired about 500 salespeople shortly before Christmas, despite claiming that the company would create thousands of new jobs in exchange for a big tax cut. Comcast apparently tried to keep the firings secret while it lobbied for the tax cut that was eventually passed into law by the Republican-controlled Congress and […]
Subscribe to cable service for long enough and you’ll probably run into lousy customer service at some point, whether it’s technicians who don’t show up on time or phone reps that won’t let you cancel. However, Comcast’s behavior in Washington might take the cake. The state’s Attorney General has filed an amended complaint alleging that […]
Enlarge (credit: Comcast) The attorney general of Washington has filed a new amended complaint in an ongoing lawsuit against Comcast, claiming that “new evidence” reveals “even more deceptive conduct than previously alleged.” The lawsuit, which was initially submitted in August 2016, alleged that hundreds of thousands of Washington residents were “deceived” into paying “at least […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Yesterday’s repeal of net neutrality rules isn’t the only good news Comcast is getting these days. In January 2018, the conditions imposed by the US government on Comcast’s 2011 purchase of NBCUniversal will begin to expire. Smaller cable companies that compete against Comcast are worried that Comcast will raise the price […]
It’s not just Disney interested in snapping up a large chunk of 21st Century Fox. Wall Street Journal tipsters claim not just that Disney has resumed “active talks” to buy most of Fox’s movie and TV assets, but that Comcast has entered discussions as well. Apparently, the initial leak of Disney-Fox negotiations prompted a frenzy […]
Enlarge (credit: Mike Mozart) We wrote earlier this week about how Comcast has changed its promises to uphold net neutrality by pulling back from previous statements that it won’t charge websites or other online applications for fast lanes. Comcast spokesperson Sena Fitzmaurice has been claiming that we got the story wrong. But a further examination of […]
