Enlarge / A Comcast service van in October 2014. (credit: Mike Mozart / Flickr) Comcast is doubling download speeds and increasing upload speeds for the $10-per-month Internet Essentials plan that it sells to low-income subscribers. Comcast had faced criticism for keeping the plan’s speeds at 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up during the pandemic, though even […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) In response to Comcast imposing a data cap on Massachusetts residents, state lawmakers have proposed a ban on data caps, new fees, and price increases on home-Internet services for the duration of the pandemic. The legislation was filed on Tuesday this week by Democratic state representatives Andy Vargas […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SilverV) Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon say they have suspended political donations to the 147 Republican members of Congress who voted against certifying Electoral College results, but the companies left the door open for resuming campaign contributions to those lawmakers in the future. “We will be suspending contributions in 2021 to […]
Enlarge / A Comcast van in Sunnyvale, California, in November 2018. (credit: Getty Images | Andrei Stanescu) Dozens of state lawmakers from Massachusetts urged Comcast to halt enforcement of its 1.2TB monthly data cap, saying the cap hurts low-income people during the pandemic and is unnecessary because of Comcast’s healthy network capacity. “Network capacity is […]
Expand / Comcast Xfinity cable tv setup truck parked on a road before a suburban house, San Ramon, California, May 17, 2018. (Photo from Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Pictures ) (credit: Getty Images | Smith Collection | Gado) Comcast is increasing prices for cable TV and Internet service on January 1, 2021, together with cost hikes coming […]
Expand (charge: Aurich Lawson / / Getty Images) Comcast’s 1.2TB monthly data limit is arriving to 12 more countries and the District of Columbia beginning January 2021. The policy has been enforced in the majority of Comcast’s 39-state US land within the last couple of decades, along with the forthcoming growth will for the very […]
Data limit money. (charge: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) The amount of broadband”power users”–people using 1TB or more per monthhas skyrocketed over the last year, making sure that ISPs are going to have the ability to earn more income from information caps. Back in Q3 2020, 8.8% of broadband subscribers found at 1TB a month, up […]
After decades of developing political pressure to get antitrust evaluation of big technology businesses, this past month Congress and the US administration sent. The House Antitrust Subcommittee published a report on Apple, Amazon, Google, along with Facebook of monopolistic behaviour. The Department of Justice registered a complaint from Google alleging the business prevents users by […]
Pasieka) Comcast’s cable net still has a significant emphasis on download rates, as even its gigabit-download service simply includes 35Mbps uploads. But that might not be the case forever, since now Comcast declared that a”technical landmark” that may provide gigabit-plus download and upload rates over existing cable {} . Notably, Comcast said that it ran”a […]
(charge: Comcast) Comcast states a broadband freelancer marketed Comcast Internet support in residential buildings from the Denver area, and it has stopped the connections into all those buildings. Since reported by Denver7 this week, the shutoff influenced countless individuals who reside in structures serviced by AlphaWiFi,”which services and installs Internet in roughly 90 apartment buildings […]