T-Mobile US added 338,000 home internet users in the first quarter, reaching 1 million customers a year after launching the high-speed wireless broadband service. The company is “bringing real competition… Read More
— Washington STEM announced Milton Lang as the education nonprofit’s new CEO. He has a doctorate in higher education administration from Washington State University and was most recently vice president… Read More
Washington municipalities will be able to offer direct-to-consumer broadband service across the state later this year under legislation Gov. Jay Inslee already has agreed to sign. Washington has been one… Read More
— Brad Anderson, a longtime Microsoft corporate vice president, has joined Qualtrics as president of products and services. A 17-year veteran of the Redmond company, Anderson was most recently a key… Read More
The City of Seattle launched a new program this week designed to provide necessary technology to people of color and other marginalized groups who are looking for jobs. The Digital… Read More
Comcast will offer 60 days of free broadband service to low-income customers in Washington state through the rest of the year as the coronavirus pandemic forces many families to rely… Read More
— Former Tableau CMO Elissa Fink joined the board of directors of San Francisco-based website operations platform Pantheon. During her tenure at Tableau, Fink was responsible for the Seattle-based data… Read More
T-Mobile is putting all its resources behind getting the mega-merger with Sprint across the finish line. But when that’s done, could T-Mobile go after an even bigger deal? A “confidential”… Read More
— Identity management startup OneLogin hired Vanessa Pegueros, the former chief information security officer of DocuSign and Expedia, to lead global information security. Pegueros, who stepped down from DocuSign in… Read More
About 85 percent of Comcast’s Washington internet customers saw their download speeds increase this week, according to the cable giant. The company boosted speeds for customers with the Performance Plus,… Read More
A judge ordered Comcast Corp. to pay $9.1 million in penalties for violating Washington state’s Consumer Protection Act — a fraction of the amount that the Washington State Attorney General… Read More
T-Mobile is teaming up with Comcast to detect robocalls between the two networks, the companies announced Wednesday. The partnership is in response to FCC pressure and customer frustration over ballooning… Read More
Commentary: After subscribing to Comcast cable television and broadband internet in some form or another for about the past 20 years, I finally cut the cord two weeks ago. Even… Read More
Attorneys for the State of Washington asked for more than $171 million from Comcast this week in closing arguments of one of the state’s biggest consumer protection lawsuits in recent history. The… Read More
Amazon and Comcast are teaming up to bring the tech giant’s video streaming service into the Xfinity cable universe. Amazon Prime Video will launch on the Comcast Xfinity X1 boxes… Read More
“This is a case about reasonableness.” So said Howard Shapiro, an attorney representing Comcast in King County Superior Court on Monday. He was telling Judge Timothy Bradshaw that Comcast acted… Read More
Lawyers from Comcast and the State of Washington met in King County Superior Court Friday to debate evidence in a rare consumer protection lawsuit headed for trial. The case involves… Read More
Today’s featured stories Seattle sports stadiums all Clear for new biometric security, payments and alcohol ID verification Comcast’s Seattle expansion highlights complex history of urban internet access T-Mobile takes its… Read More
Comcast will start serving two dense and popular Seattle neighborhoods for the first time Aug. 18. The company’s internet and cable services will become available for residents of First Hill… Read More
With more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications, media and technology industry, Amy Lynch still gets a kick out helping customers get the right cable TV and internet… Read More
Ignition Partners added two high-profile names to its roster, including former Microsoft chief information officer Jim DuBois. DuBois and Datasphere CEO Satbir Khanuja will serve as “venture advisors” at Ignition, a Bellevue, Wash.-based… Read More
If you’re going to have your lunch eaten, perhaps it’s best to have some say about the table setting. This new series by contributing writer Frank Catalano examines the evolution… Read More
T-Mobile said it has closed the acquisition of Denver-based Layer3 TV, paving the way for the self-proclaimed “Un-carrier” to launch its own TV service this year. With this acquisition, first… Read More
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has amended his lawsuit against Comcast after finding that the cable giant deceived customers more than he expected. Ferguson said Thursday that he is expanding… Read More
Wave Broadband, an internet and TV service company based in Kirkland, Wash., filed a suit with the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday against Comcast, citing “unfair business practices” related to… Read More
John Legere is clearly enthused by T-Mobile’s opportunity to build a compelling TV service, but the wireless world’s Batman, as he likes to call himself, seems even more excited by… Read More
Comcast today is rolling out its first ever completely fully homegrown WiFi device, the xFi Advanced Gateway, capable of achieving gigabit speeds and up. The device, first unveiled earlier this… Read More
Comcast subscribers who relied on their mobile Xfinity TV Remote app to set a DVR recording while away from home are going to want to stay a little closer to… Read More
When you spin around in your favorite chair in front of the television at home you’ll be able to act even more like a judge during NBC’s reality show “The… Read More
UPDATE: Comcast tweeted at 12:38 p.m. PT, saying that issues should be resolved for almost all customers. Internet issues should now be resolved for almost all customers. We apologize for… Read More