Comcast internet, cable, and phone services are down nationwide
Comcast residential and business customers from coast to coast are experiencing a loss of service on Friday afternoon. The outage affects internet, cable, and voice …
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Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, son of Comcast founder, is legally impossible to fire
Comcast’s share price is having a rough old year, down nearly 30% from January thanks to the company’s ongoing attempts to acquire 21st Century Fox. …
Comcast makes offer to buy 21st Century Fox, less than 24 hours after AT&T-Time Warner deal is approved
At not-quite-5PM yesterday, a judge rejected the Department of Justice’s bid to prevent AT&T and Time Warner from merging, in effect giving the final stamp …
A day later, some Comcast phone customers still don’t have service
Yesterday, a nationwide outage affected Comcast phone customers, impacting service for customers in Denver, Atlanta, New York, San Francisco, Chicago,, Portland, Houston, Philadelphia, and Seattle. Although …
Comcast outage hits cities across the US
Comcast appears to be having intermittent problems with its service across all of the US. The company has confirmed that customers “may still be experiencing …
People hate their internet service providers more than ever
At this point, the fact that everyone hates whichever company pipes internet into their homes is a bad joke. We’ve come to expect terrible customer …
Comcast website bug gives out your full address and Wi-Fi password to almost anyone
There’s already plenty of reasons to dislike your internet service provider, but Comcast clearly wasn’t happy being simply disliked for its customer service and product. …
Comcast is charging $90 to plug in your modem and I’m not even angry any more
There’s only so many times that you can write about Comcast acting like a rent–seeking monopolist before reaching the point where nothing will surprise you …
Comcast is only increasing internet speeds for customers who also pay for cable
As we’ve documented ad nauseam before, cable companies are struggling with falling profits due largely to cord cutting. With over a million customers jumping ship …
Comcast’s wireless service is such a good deal it’s losing the company money
Comcast recently started offering its own wireless service under the brand of Xfinity Mobile. The actual mobile service is provided by Verizon, and the plans …
Cord-cutting will hit Comcast particularly hard
Cord-cutting is an existential problem that’s affecting the entire cable TV and satellite industry right now. But just as the weakest animals are the first …
Do we even have to say that Comcast’s Netflix competitor will probably suck?
Comcast is in the middle of an acquisition of Sky, the largest pay TV operator in the UK and a crown jewel in the Murdoch …
T-Mobile calls Comcast ‘irrelevant’ and ‘incompetent,’ but the results disagree
In May last year, Comcast launched Xfinity Mobile, a wireless service that runs on Verizon’s network. Although the cell plans were never designed for widespread …
With cord-cutting on the rise, Comcast’s broadband business sees significant gains
While the number of viewing options cable TV provides is nothing short of astounding, the harsh reality is that cable companies have been price-gouging consumers …
Shocker: Community-owned broadband is cheaper and better than Big Cable
This is another one of those pieces of news you’re going to need to take sitting down: Big cable companies are not, in fact, Good. …
At least 6 major providers are hiking pay TV prices – here’s what you can do about it
This will surely come as a shock, so we hope you’re sitting down: pay TV prices are rising. Crazy, right!? All joking aside, cable and …
You will be shocked to hear that Comcast is jacking up internet prices
2017 has been a rollercoaster year, but you might want to sit down to absorb this particularly unexpected piece of news: Comcast is raising the …
Comcast accused of signing thousands up for a protection program without their consent
Back in August of 2016, Comcast was named in a lawsuit alleging that the cable company had deceived hundreds of thousands of subscribers in Washington …
One Senator makes a good case for breaking up Comcast-NBC
The current trend in the telecoms/media industry is for the giant cable companies, which distribute content, to merge with the actual owners of said content, …
Cable prices are soaring as millions of customers jump ship
Traditional pay TV — cable and satellite — is in a bad place. Every three months we get a new record for the number of …
Comcast’s new TV remote can also find your lost cellphone
If you’re anything like me, you probably use Find My iPhone (or Google’s neat trick) to retrieve a phone from the depths of your couch …
Comcast’s new Wi-Fi router might not belong in the trash
Usual procedure when setting up a new home internet connection goes something like this: Open welcome package from internet provider; immediately discard the cable modem …
Comcast changed its tune on net neutrality the very same day the FCC plotted its death
Remember how internet service providers kept telling you that they’d respect net neutrality regardless of whether the FCC would force them to do it or …
This is the kind of dirty trick Comcast tries to keep its monopoly
In the three months that make up Q3 2017, Comcast’s cable communications operation pulled in $2.65 billion in income. Revenue was up 5.1%, even as …
Home internet down across the US as problems hit Comcast and others
Internet service providers across the US appear to be struggling with connectivity on Monday afternoon. DownDetector, a crowdsourced website that collects reports of service outages, …
$500 off the iPhone X is still $500 off, even from Comcast
With the iPhone X set to be in incredibly short demand, there aren’t a lot of promotional deals floating around right now. The best you …
An early Christmas present from cable companies: Internet price hikes
We regularly do our best to try to help readers save money on their cable and internet bills. In fact, just two days ago we …
Comcast is ruining cheap cable bundles, because Comcast
You might want to sit down, because this could come as a surprise: Comcast is doing something bad. According to the American Cable Association, Comcast …
Get ready for home internet prices to double
Been enjoying your reasonably-priced home internet connection recently? Don’t get too comfortable. US cable companies, led by Comcast, are all set to start increasing broadband …
Comcast’s Xfinity Mobile has a killer deal on every flagship phone
Xfinity Mobile, Comcast’s newly-launched and surprisingly good mobile division, has a very simple and very excellent deal: $200 off any flagship phone, provided you’re also …
