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Enlarge (credit: Google Fiber) AT&T and Comcast have convinced a federal judge to nullify an ordinance that was designed to bring more broadband competition to Nashville, Tennessee. The Nashville Metro Council last year passed a “One Touch Make Ready” rule that gives Google Fiber or other new ISPs faster access to utility poles. The ordinance […]
(credit: Comcast) Comcast and Verizon have each, separately, approached 21st Century Fox about buying part of the company, according to several news reports. Comcast already owns NBCUniversal and numerous regional sports networks. Adding part of 21st Century Fox would give Comcast even more programming to pair with the nation’s largest cable broadband and TV network. […]
(credit: Comcast) Comcast met with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai’s staff this week in an attempt to prevent states from issuing net neutrality rules. As the FCC prepares to gut its net neutrality rules, broadband providers are worried that states might enact their own laws to prevent ISPs from blocking, throttling, or discriminating against […]
Comedy Central Comcast is hoping to bring “cord nevers” into the pay-TV fold with Xfinity Instant TV: The stripped-down bundle of broadband-delivered channels, which starts at $ 18 per month for a tier of local broadcast networks, is now available in select areas. A Comcast rep declined to disclose where the Xfinity Instant TV beta is currently available […]
Longtime Comcast customer Drew Weaver was surprised in mid-May of this year when he got an automated call notifying him that he’d gone over his 1TB monthly data cap. First of all, Comcast alleged that he’d exceeded the data cap two months in a row, and Weaver says he never got a notification about the […]
(credit: Alyson Hurt) Comcast TV customers in Oregon will soon have to pay $ 14.50 each month for the controversial “Broadcast TV” and “Regional Sports Network” fees. Currently, the two fees combined cost customers $ 11 a month but will rise by $ 3.50 starting October 1, The Oregonian reported yesterday. Comcast is also raising […]
(credit: Getty Images | DonNichols) A class-action complaint against Comcast can move forward after a federal judge rejected a Comcast motion to dismiss it. The lawsuit, filed in October 2016 in US District Court in Northern California, accuses Comcast of falsely advertising low prices and then using poorly disclosed fees to increase the amount paid by cable […]
You can check out any time you’d like, but you can never… well, you know the song. (credit: Aurich Lawson) Amie Stepanovich has been shuttling back and forth between Washington, DC, and Ohio, where her father is “very sick and currently in the hospital and unable to speak for himself,” she wrote in a series of tweets yesterday. […]
Enlarge (credit: Josh Hallett) Only a handful of tech companies have earned the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s coveted five-star rating in its annual “Who Has Your Back?” scorecard, released on Monday. The top-rated companies for 2017 include Adobe, Credo Mobile, Dropbox, Lyft, Pinterest, Sonic, Uber, Wickr, and WordPress. Notable names among the lowest-rated companies include Comcast, AT&T, […]
LG’s new Android phone called X charge for Comcast’s Xfinity Mobile service isn’t a flagship by any means. Its specs won’t be able to compete with your iPhone 7s and Samsung Galaxy S8s, but it has one particular feature that stands out: its massive 4,500mAh battery that’s 1,000mAh bigger than the ones inside the Samsung […]
