Tag: Comcast
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Comcast Says It Doesn’t Feel Threatened by 5G Home Internet As Cord Cutting 2.0 Grows
Comcast said it doesn’t see 5G home internet as a threat in the intensifying race to provide reliable high-speed internet to consumers. The telecommunications company believes radio spectrum limitations will cause issues for the new technology in the future. Instead, Comcast views fiber broadband as its biggest long-term competitor because internet connection option is available…
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Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, Comcast, & Paramount Lost More Than $5 Billion on Streaming in 2023
Cord cutting has been dominating cable TV, and legacy media companies have yet to figure out how to turn the millions of Americans who are streaming into revenue. According to a report from the Financial Times, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Comcast, and Paramount together have lost more than $5 billion on streaming in 2023. Comcast…
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Comcast Faces Class Action Lawsuit in the Wake of Massive Data Breach
Comcast is facing a class action lawsuit following a massive data breach that exposed personally identifying information of about 36 million Xfinity customers. On December 19, Plaintiff Kenneth Hasson filed the suit in Pennsylvania for Comcast’s “failure to properly secure and safeguard highly valuable, protected, personally identifiable information.” According to the suit, Hasson and others…
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Comcast And AT&T File to Block $14 Million in High-Speed Internet Funds
Comcast and AT&T filed an objection to block $14 million in state money set to improve Oakland’s high-speed internet. The companies claim that broadband infrastructure already exists. However, city data and user experience suggest otherwise. Alameda County received $24.5 billion in “last mile” broadband connectivity funding, $14 million for Oakland. Comcast and AT&T said these…
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AccuWeather Launches Free Channel on Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream
AccuWeather NOW, a free ad-supported streaming channel, is now available to Xfinity customers on X1 and the Xfinity Stream App. Xfinity customers can access AccuWeather’s “Superior Accuracy” forecasts through the cable provider’s devices and platforms, including weather videos, social weather content from popular platforms, and stories highlighting the potential impact forecasted weather can have on…
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Why Disney, Paramount, and Peacock’s Money Troubles Are Good For You
It’s been a brutal year if you run a streaming business. After years of pouring billions of dollars into creating exclusive content, companies like Disney, Paramount, and Comcast, which owns Peacock, are deep in the red. But their losses may end up being your gain as the need to rein in expenses may mean you’ll…
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How Comcast Customers Can Protect Themselves Following the Company’s Massive Data Breach
Comcast customers on Monday learned that their personal data — like hashed passwords, contact details, birthdates, and the last four digits of social security numbers — had been exposed in a massive data breach. Comcast said it detected the breach on October 25, 2023. “We promptly patched and mitigated the vulnerability. We are not aware…
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Comcast Suffered a Massive Data Breach Exposing Customers’ Personal Data
Today, Comcast notified customers of a massive data breach that exposed customers’ personal data. This data breach likey included customers’ hashed passwords, contact details, and the last four digits of social security numbers along with the birthdates of some customers, Comcast said in a letter to customers. “On October 10, 2023, one of Xfinity’s software…
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Comcast is Exploring New Businesses Outside of Cable TV — Including Fighting Bedbugs
Comcast is expanding its business into new and unexpected areas — like your hotel sheets. Comcast-owned company MachineQ has teamed up with Spotta, an insect-detecting service, to help hoteliers stop bedbugs before the pests become a huge problem. Once Spotta’s wireless Bed Pod sensor trap is placed under a hotel bed’s mattress, it releases pheromones…
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The Recap: FCC’s Plan to Kill Junk Fees, Disappearing Apps, and More
Cord cutting has taken its toll on cable companies, which we’ve seen every time Comcast or Charter Communications reports earnings and continued losses on the TV side. But what gets less attention are the small local cable TV companies, and things are even uglier. There have been a string of cable companies that have either…