Are Comcast and Netflix burying the hatchet? After years of squabbling, the two companies reached a landmark agreement to allow the Netflix app to appear on Comcast’s X1 platform, Recode reports.… Read More
Comcast is the latest corporation to get in on the eSports movement, today announcing brand partnerships with both the ESL and Evil Geniuses. ESL is the world’s largest eSports network,… Read More
thePlatform, a subsidiary of Comcast, is a provider of online video publishing tools and video management solutions. Utilized by streaming video businesses, the company is hiring for a number of… Read More
Comcast is raising the bar on its data caps again, this time more than tripling the base amount of data available per month in markets where the company is testing the… Read More
Amazon has quietly rolled out the Amazon Cable Store in a bid to make cable TV, internet and home phone service much easier to compare and buy. Right now, the only cable… Read More
The past week has been full of setbacks for those striving to boost competition among broadband suppliers and provide consumers with more choice. From Tennessee to San Francisco, these efforts… Read More
More and more sports fans are interacting with a “second screen” — a phone, a tablet, a laptop, etc. — while they watch live sports on TV as a way to… Read More
Comcast is a “repeat offender” when it comes to over billing customers, according to six Democratic US senators, and the congressmen want the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to force the… Read More
A growing number of Comcast customers, whose data use surpasses the arbitrary limits set by the cable company, are getting hit with added charges. According to a story Thursday from… Read More
Getting the fastest internet speed available typically requires fiber optic cables that transmit data with pulses of light, which can require digging up streets and yards to lay fiber. But Comcast is… Read More
If you make money charging people for TV access, here’s the latest set of scary numbers. A new Pew Research Center report has found that one out of five young… Read More
While Comcast moves ahead with its plan to add cell-phone-like data usage fees to home Internet service, consumers like Kimberly Richardson are feeling the pain. And if you are a… Read More
Comcast is slowly expanding data caps for its home internet users, with many Xfinity Internet users in the southeast U.S. now limited to 300 GB of data use per month.… Read More
It didn’t take Comcast much time to revise its new 10-year franchise agreement with Seattle after city officials demanded more benefits for low-income residents. The city announced today that it reached… Read More
The Seattle City Council was set to approve a new 10-year franchise agreement with Comcast on Wednesday, but now city officials are pressing pause after seeing what the cable giant did in Philadelphia. In a letter… Read More
There’s a wealth of smart TV options, from built-in solutions running Android to little boxes like the Apple TV or Amazon’s Fire TV. But none of them have push notifications for things… Read More
Some CenturyLink fiber Internet customers in Seattle have been without a connection since Sunday afternoon. Several Seattle residents took to Twitter throughout Sunday and into Monday morning, expressing their frustration with… Read More
While data caps are now common for mobile users, many home broadband internet connections have been seen as unlimited gateways to the Internet. However, Comcast is testing a limit to internet data in… Read More
Did this page not load fast enough for you? Well, just wait until the end of this month. Comcast announced this week that it’s increasing the speeds in some of its… Read More
Comcast is starting the school year with an expansion of its “Xfinity on Campus” streaming service for college and university students, bringing the total number of schools involved in the… Read More
Get ready for your home Internet to feel like your smartphone — bound by data caps, a large overage fee waiting to happen. Comcast gave some users the bad news Thursday… Read More
Comcast customers with the X1 platform have access to a new “football companion.” Comcast announced today a new feature for the X1 Sports app that allows fans to see real-time fantasy… Read More
CenturyLink is launching a new TV service in Seattle today, bringing about competition for existing providers like Comcast and Wave Broadband. The service, called Prism TV, is already available in 16 cities… Read More
This isn’t your normal Comcast service center. Positioned right on the border of downtown Seattle and the South Lake Union neighborhood that Amazon and other tech firms call home, a new store advertises… Read More
Comcast announced today that it’s launching a streaming service for its Internet subscribers. The $15 per month service, called Stream, allows customers to watch live TV from about a dozen channels on… Read More
Our guest on the latest GeekWire radio show was Bill Schrier, the former CTO for the City of Seattle and current state point of contact for FirstNet, a $7 billion program… Read More
T-Mobile has no lack of suitors, it’s just a matter of getting one to stick. Today, rumors surfaced that it was Comcast that was in talks with Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile’s parent company,… Read More
Seattle councilmember Kshama Sawant wants a municipal broadband network in the Emerald City, and she’s calling on the city’s residents to join forces to make it happen. Sawant, a former software… Read More
A long-awaited study says building a municipal gigabit fiber network in Seattle would cost $480 million to $665 million — less than past projections, but still too much for the city to… Read More
Comcast slowed to a crawl Monday night across parts of the West Coast due to unexpected rerouting of DNS traffic after a hardware failure, according to a post on the cable… Read More