Tag: Cox
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AT&T, T-Mobile, Comcast, Cox, Verizon, and More Take FCC’s Pledge to Maintain Customer Service During Coronavirus Pandemic
Today, the Federal Communications Commission announced nearly 80 broadband and telephone services providers and commissions have signed on to what it’s calling the “Keep Americans Connected Pledge.” The agreement is aimed at ensuring residents and small businesses don’t lose broadband and phone service during the current Coronavirus pandemic, which has led to many service and…
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Cox is Turning Your Home Internet into a Public Wi-Fi Unless You Stop Them
Do you use Cox Cable Internet for your home Internet? You will soon need to manually turn off a public hotspot mode or Cox will allow the public to access your home Internet. Recently Cox started to contact customers to inform them that their home Internet routers will soon be updated to automatically allow other…
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How To Stop Getting Spam Email And Mail From Dish, Spectrum, Comcast, DIRECTV, & More in 2020
At the beginning of every new year, phone calls and letters with offers and promotions trying to win you back as a cable, internet, or phone customer seems to spike. Luckily, there are ways to make these advertisements and promotional offers stop. Do Not Call Registry First things first. Put your phone number on the…
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Comcast, Spectrum, & AT&T May Need to Crack Down on Piracy After a $1 Billion Judgement Against Cox
This week, Cox was found liable for piracy infringement and will now pay $1 billion in damages to Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and EMI. The lawsuit against Cox was filed in July 2018, alleging that Cox wasn’t stopping piracy on its network. As a result, there was piracy infringement on over…
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Cox Knowingly Allowed Piracy of Music, According to a Court Ruling
Cox’s legal issues surrounding piracy are continuing, this time involving a lawsuit from 53 music companies. The companies, including Capitol Records, Warner Brothers, and Sony Music are arguing that Cox did not stop those repeatedly in violation of copyright laws, but profited from the activity. While the case is now heading to trial, Cox was…
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Comcast, Spectrum, & AT&T Are Offering Discounted Internet Options for Low Income Households
Recently, we shared the news that Comcast will be expanding their discounted internet service offer to all households that meet qualifications. In this post, we’re sharing details about that program, along with similar options from other major internet providers. Internet Essentials from Comcast Comcast is bringing affordable high speed internet to low-income households for $9.95…
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COX Joins Comcast in Launching a New Live TV Streaming Service & a Streaming Player Called Contour
About a month ago Comcast announced a new streaming player you could rent from them for $5 a month. Now COX has posted a FAQ page promoting a COX branded streaming player called the Contour. Maybe the most interesting part of this new device is it does include an HDMI pass-through allowing you to access…
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Cox Is Now Offering Pre-Paid Home Internet
We are not sure exactly when this happened, but Cox is offering pre-paid home internet. This deal includes 25 Mbps down internet with a free Wi-Fi modem for $50 a month. (The price is reportedly guaranteed for 3 years.) There is no contract for this deal and no credit checks making this a great option…
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Cox Added Over $100 in Fees & Taxes to One Customer’s Bill
We have all seen it: that internet plus TV bundle that just sounds too good to be true. According to the ad or the phone agent, it looks like it would be cheaper to get cable TV than cut the cord. Just this week, one of our readers sent us a bill with this exact…
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Comcast, Cox, & Optimum Charge Almost $200 a Month For Their Bundles
Today Consumer Reports released the results of their latest survey on the current state of cable TV. As you would expect once again most Americans are not all that happy with their pay-TV service. According to the survey, only 38% of Americans are “very” or “completely” happy with their pay-TV service. Google Fiber lead the way…