C-Mobile: Buying the ‘Un-carrier’ would be Comcast’s ultimate revenge
Comcast is a bit of a wounded beast right now. It’s still smarting from a pair of embarrassing defeats over net neutrality and its failed …
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Comcast’s brilliant plan to make you accept data caps: Refuse to admit they’re data caps
Comcast has a problem: It wants to implement data caps but it knows customers hate data caps. Its solution: Call them something other than “data …
Big cable companies are fighting to stall new tech that would improve cellular service
Google Fiber is hardly the only threat to ISP mainstays like Comcast and Time Warner Cable these days. There are three times as many wireless …
Comcast CEO says ‘you can’t raise the price forever,’ just before Comcast raises prices
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts acknowledged this week that you can’t keep raising prices forever… but that doesn’t mean prices can’t go up next month! Ars Technica …
FCC complaints reveal the horrors of Comcast’s data caps
When it comes to customer service, Comcast is an anti-miracle worker, sort of like if Jesus had tried turning water into wine and it came …
The average cable bill has increased by nearly 40% in 5 years
You know the old saying that “truth is stranger than fiction”? Well sometimes, they just so happen to intersect. Not that long ago, there was a …
Enough: It’s time for major tech companies to take a stand against ISP data caps
Let’s be honest: The only reason we tolerate mobile data caps at all is because we at least have wireline networks at home that we …
Comcast to offer gigabit Internet nationwide by 2018
Though maligned for its customer support and billing practices, the one thing Comcast decidedly does well is offer fast Internet service. In recent nationwide testing, …
Comcast: We’re ready for 4K distribution today
While there’s no disputing that the picture quality of 4K content is absolutely breathtaking, the transition to a 4K world isn’t going to happen overnight. …
Awesome Comcast Xfinity Share app gives us a glimpse into the future
For as much as people talk about living in a connected world, the reality is that we’ve just scratched the surface of what is possible. …
Comcast admits its 300GB data cap serves no technical purpose
Say what you will about Comcast and their customer service, but the company does provide the fastest internet speeds amongst all nationwide ISPs. As we highlighted …
Fight back against your ISP: Stop paying bogus modem rental fees
We recently wrote about an awful pay TV scam that’s hiding in plain sight. Cable and satellite TV providers charge you as much as a …
America hates Comcast but it’s the fastest nationwide ISP we have
Comcast is not a well loved company in the United States. Somewhat paradoxically, however, Comcast also happens to be the ISP with the fastest overall …
The pay TV scam that’s hiding in plain sight
Services like Netflix are driving U.S. households to cut the cord at an unprecedented rate, and studies suggest that impressive rate won’t be slowing anytime …
Comcast is about to fund its biggest media critics with hundreds of millions of dollars
Comcast has earned a reputation as one of America’s most hated companies and there are plenty of people in the media who slam the cable …
Why should Comcast improve its reputation when it can just buy the blogs that bash it?
Following Verizon’s recent acquisition of AOL, the industry and readers at large are waiting to see if and how the deal might affect the news sites Verizon now …
The Netflix effect: Comcast now has fewer pay TV subscribers than Internet subscribers
When companies willfully ignore viable and increasingly dangerous threats to their business, well, it typically doesn’t end well. Especially in the fast moving world of …
Comcast has created a monster… and its name is Netflix
Oops. Netflix has quickly grown from a nifty little site that streams a bunch of old movies to a game-changing entertainment powerhouse that makes it …
Comcast to start market trial of 10Gbps broadband tech in late 2015
Comcast later this year is going to start a market trial of an incredibly promising new broadband technology capable of delivering maximum download speeds of …
What cord cutters? Comcast still has its head in the sand
Netflix-style content streaming is the future of television. The ability to binge-watch new shows the minute they come out is highly addictive, as Netflix fans …
Comcast 2Gbps Internet service pricing revealed… and it’s a giant disappointment
Oh, Comcast. Even when you do things that should be cool, you manage to make them massively disappointing. Our latest example is the pricing for …
Comcast has a TV streaming package for cord cutters and I can’t stop laughing at how bad it is
Comcast knows that kids these days love their hippity-hop and their crazy smartyphones. It also knows that they love cord cutting, a newfangled way of …
This Is What Life Might Be Like Without Broadband Monopolies
The United Kingdom is apparently a magical land where Scotch eggs can be found on every corner, the Queen’s Guard runs people over, and broadband …
Bullet Dodged: Bloomberg Reports Comcast Not Interested in Buying T-Mobile
Pheeeewwww. That was a close one. American wireless users’ hearts collectively seized earlier on Wednesday after reports came out claiming that T-Mobile parent company Deutsche …
Worst Idea Ever: Deutsche Telekom in Talks to Sell T-Mobile to Comcast
Oh hell no. Reuters writes that German publication Manager Magazin is reporting that T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom has been having talks to unload the “Un-carrier” onto …
Guess which two nationwide pay TV providers are the most hated in the country
If we only gave you one try to guess which two nationwide pay TV and Internet service providers are the most hated in the country when …
Comcast’s failed TWC merger may blow up in its face… again
Comcast’s decision to try to merge with Time Warner Cable last year might go down as one of the biggest strategic blunders of the decade. …
Comcast’s plan for revenge starts to take shape
The past year has been a very bad one for Comcast. It’s been regularly humiliated by stories about its atrocious customer service, it’s lost a …
Comcast’s broadband caps are even more annoying than we imagined
Ah, Comcast — will you ever stop coming up with creative ways to irritate your customers? Redditor FriendlyDespot has noticed that Comcast has started injecting code into …
Internet Health Test aims to tell you if your ISP is violating net neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission surprised us all earlier this year when it put forth new net neutrality guidelines that were hugely pro-consumer. Yes, there may be …
