Comcast reported 1Q 2021 earnings today, and the company reported Xfinity mobile total subscribers reached 3.1 million at the end of the quarter. Xfinity mobile added 278K wireless lines in 1Q 2021, its best quarterly result ever. The company reported…
Comcast said today that it completed a lab test of a DOCSIS 4.0 full duplex system on a chip (SOC) that will be a critical component of multi-gigabit services to be deployed in the future. In an interview with Telecompetitor,…
Apr 15, 2021 – PHILADELPHIA, PA – Today, Comcast introduced new 5G unlimited data options for its top-rated mobile service, Xfinity Mobile, that rival those offered by the nation’s “big three” wireless providers at $30 per line for four lines….
April 13, 2021 – PHILADELPHIA, PA – Today, MachineQ, a Comcast Company, announced the latest release of its low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) platform designed to reduce the complexities for businesses to develop and deploy Internet of Things (IoT) solutions at…
Comcast today announced it will expand service to 815 homes in the City of Sumas, a rural community of Whatcom County. Over the next two years, Comcast will invest $4.2 million, to bring the entire suite of Xfinity and Comcast…
March 29, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Comcast and The Walt Disney Company today announced the start of the rollout of Disney+ and ESPN+ on Xfinity, giving X1 and Flex customers access to the Disney+ library of movies and shows from Disney,…
Comcast today committed to investing $1 billion over the next 10 years to help shrink the digital divide and enable more low-income Americans to access broadband services. Lack of broadband access for seniors became evident during the pandemic, while the…
During today’s Deutsche Bank Investor Conference, Comcast CFO Michael Cavanagh reported that Comcast is effectively using streaming video to reduce broadband churn. Broadband is now the core product for Comcast and other traditional video providers, helping drive overall revenue and…
In an attempt to combat the increasing annoyance of robocalls, Comcast today launched what the company says is the country’s largest landline voice implementation of STIR/SHAKEN-based Verified Caller ID feature. At the end of March, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)…
Comcast reported that the COVID-19 pandemic drove its peak Internet traffic up 32% in 2020. The company says that investments made during the previous three years positioned it to weather the storm. The signs of a singular year were plentiful….
A planned Comcast broadband data cap policy for its markets in the Northeast has been pushed back again. The nation’s largest wireline broadband service provider by total subscribers says the data cap policy will be delayed until 2022. This is…
Comcast has agreed to delay imposing data caps on broadband service in its Northeast division until July 2021. The agreement resulted from negotiations with Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, according to a press release from the AG. Comcast’s broadband service…
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