Comcast to focus on offering cellular services to cable TV and internet customers, while also leveraging access to 15 million Wi-Fi hot spots
Comcast: Your wide-area, wireless services provider. On one hand, thinking of Comcast as your wireless network services provider seems outrageous. What do...
There are ample IoT opportunities for communication service providers if they have the right plan in place to capitalize on the opportunity
This is the first article in a three-part series examining the opportunity, challenges and course of action for service providers as they tackle...
In largest-ever cable company fine, Comcast charged with billing customers for equipment and services they never asked to receive
Philadelphia-based cable giant Comcast has agreed to pay $2.3 million to the Federal Communications Commission to resolve an investigation into what's called negative option billing, the...
By combining data from connected trucks with its lean production know-how, Scania aims to help mining companies boost their productivity.
Scania is no beginner when it comes to lean production methods. Already in the 1990s, the Swedish truck manufacturer partnered with Toyota of Japan to later...
Tony Werner, Comcast president of technology and product group, kicks off SCTE/IBSE Cable-Tec Expo 2016
PHILADELPHIA – “The wind is at our back,” Tony Werner, president of the Comcast technology and product group, told attendees at the 2016 Cable-Tec Expo.
Pointing to increasing collaboration, the advent of...
So, it’s official. Comcast is going to make their second attempt at wireless according to their CEO Brian Roberts. So what does re-entering wireless mean for Comcast's future? The way the industry is heading, they need to be a player in wireless to remain...
Verizon CFO Fran Shammo stayed the course in terms of the carrier’s view on unlimited data, warning it will catch up with rivals
Verizon Wireless remains, for the time being, against running out an “unlimited” data plan, noting consumers that desire such offers tend to be...
Long-time industry exec John Stanton heaped praise on T-Mobile, but continues to show concern regarding market’s ability to support 4 nationwide operators
SEATTLE – Following a five-year absence, wireless industry veteran John Stanton returned to the stage at the Competitive Carriers Association’s Annual Convention to...
In addition to 15 million Wi-Fi hot spots, Comcast has option to resell Verizon Wireless services
During the Goldman Sachs Commacopia conference today, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts previewed plans for the cable TV giant to launch a Wi-Fi-integrated mobile virtual network operator in mid-2017 using...
In addition to becoming a dominant force in streaming video content and production, Netflix has also emerged as a strong advocate for net neutrality and consumer access to unlimited data.
While this clearly serves Netflix by removing any subscriber barrier to streaming, the company has...
Could the battle between Wi-Fi and LTE-U turn some members of the mobile-first generation against the cellular industry? Google, cable providers and Wi-Fi equipment makers are targeting millennials in a video called "Wi-Fi Killer on the Loose" which claims wireless carriers are threatening free...
Comcast has announced the launch of a Chicago-area trial for a new internet service that delivers speeds up to 1 gigabit per second to customers. The service will use DOCSIS 3.1 technology to deliver these speeds over the company’s existing network infrastructure.
In January, CableLabs gave...
Washington state attorneys charge Comcast with 'illegally deceiving' customers
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Aug. 1 filed a lawsuit against Comcast on behalf of in-state subscribers, that seeks more than $100 million in restitution for violating various consumer protections.
Specifically, Ferguson's office said the cable giant committed...
Are Comcast's eyes bigger than its stomach? A few years ago they acquired some wireless spectrum and thought they were going to be the next big wireless success story. They failed. Now it looks like they may be getting ready to give wireless a...
Comcast said it plans to sell its Xfinity prepaid broadband internet and TV service through Boost Mobile retail locations
As part of broader plans to launch a prepaid broadband internet and cable television service, Comcast said it plans to tap a retail partnership with Sprint's...
Cable giant Comcast is a bidder in upcoming 600 MHz spectrum auction
Comcast continues to make moves that signal a possible future entrance in the mobile carrier space. In the latest, the Philadelphia-based MSO has reportedly created a new mobile division and shuffled executives to...
Continuing its move into territory dominated by telecom outfits, Comcast has agreed to acquire smart home management company iControl to bolster its smart home service offerings.
Based in Austin, Texas, iControl's primary consumer product is the Piper home security system, which features devices as well as a...
Continuing its move into territory dominated by telecom outfits, Comcast has agreed to acquire smart home management company iControl bolstering its smart home service offerings.
Based in Austin, Texas, iControl's primary consumer product is the Piper home security system, which features devices as well as...
Investigation into pay-TV providers TWC, Charter, Dish Network, DirecTV, Comcast and Cox examines billing practices
A U.S. Senate hearing this week focused on billing practices for five major pay-TV companies serving some 71 million subscribers. Senators honed in on overcharges from Time Warner Cable and...
1. Apple said Chinese authorities have not yet locked the iPhone 6 and 6s out of the Chinese market. The Chinese government moved to block sales of the two devices, saying their design infringed on a Chinese patent held by a company called Shenzhen...
1. Apple said Chinese authorities have not yet locked the iPhone 6 and 6s out of the Chinese market. The Chinese government moved to block sales of the two devices, saying their design infringed on a Chinese patent held by a company called Shenzhen...
Following a complaint from Comcast, the National Advertising Review Board has recommended Verizon back off its claim of being the leader in internet speeds provided through its FiOS home internet and TV service.
NARB is the appellate unit of the advertising industry’s system of self-regulation...
Internet access is quickly emerging as the core utility of this generation, enabling everything from startup innovation to providing access to job opportunities to underserved populations. Recognizing this trend, service providers both old and new are spending big to expand fiber networks and high-speed...
DOCSIS 3.1 allows cable operators to extend lifespan of copper physical plant
Continuing to grow its footprint of gigabit internet services, Comcast today began an "advanced trial" of high-speed internet using DOCSIS 3.1 technology in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Philadelphia-based company initially trialled DOCSIS 3.1 modems in...
