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- Comcast rakes in the dough; Continues to poach voice customers
- Comcast rakes in the dough; Continues to poach voice customersWhy, just Why?Why would anyone willingly subject themselves to becoming Comcast customers? Where I live even DSL is not available so my only choice is Comcast and they are terrible, their customer service is terrible, their installers are unreliable and they...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-06
- Comcast's speedier Internet--and its limits
- ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz shares his take on Comcast's new wideband Internet service. He says the service will allow faster downloads of movies, but the company also needs to offer tools so users can track Internet usage since it is imposing a bandwidth cap at 250 gigabytes.
- Videos 2008-10-28
- Looking deeper into Comcast's new cap
- ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz offers his take on Comcast's recent announcement that it will begin implementing a Web-surfing limit on its customers October 1. Imposing data limits could discourage existing users from experimenting with alternatives to cable TV, Diaz says.
- Videos 2008-09-02
- Comcast passes Vonage in digital voice subscriber rankings
- A report from the Yankee Group now shows that Vonage has recently lost its ranking as the Internet phone service with the most subscribers.Noted on PC Magazine's website this morning, the Yankee Group now says Comcast Digital Voice basic connection diagram at the top of this post reported 2.4 million...
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- Poll: OK, here are the four things wrong with Comcast
- When I read fellow blogger Alan Graham's What's Wrong With Comcast? post, I immediately began experiencing multiple deja vu flashbacks.First, to summarize. Back in January, Alan decided to cut back on his Comcast cable tv but retain some of his other Comcast services.His monthly Comcast bill should have been less,...
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Comcast opens Second Life "theme park"
- Comcast now has its own Second Life world.It's actually an online theme park- and it's called Comcastic Island. No, you won't be able to pay your Comcash bill in Linden Dollars (or even in U.S. currency) but you will be able to participate in a racetrack, Jet Ski track...
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
- Hey Qwest, you are NOT as fast as my Comcast
- A missive from regional telco provider Qwest's p.r. firm arrived in my Inbox yesterday.The email contained news of a "survey" of 100 Comcast and Qwest broadband customers performing a set of outlined tasks at two identical computers -- one connected to Qwest's premium product (5 to 7 megs) and one...
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Hey Vonage, it's a STAY, not a WIN
- In the somewhat self-delusional world that some Vonage execs, analysts and users seem to inhabit, yesterdays stay of an order allowing Vonage to keep signing up new customers until the patent infringement issues with Verizon are settled amounts to a win.I have a hard time viewing this attitude as reality....
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Leaked Comcast memo: charges for formerly free service calls are coming
- According to an internal Comcast PowerPoint file received by the Consumerist website, Comcast is adopting a policy that beginning this month, will allow significantly more wiggle room for service technicans to charge for home visits that used to be free.Among the ch-ch-changes mentioned in the file, and then...
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Comcast should surcharge bandwidth hogs, Torrents downloaders
- PCMag.coms Chloe Albanesius has gotten quite a reaction from her Wednesday story that Comcast is cutting off "bandwidth hogs" whose downloads are far in excess of what the broadband access provider thinks is about right.She mentions one case of a customer who downloaded 550 gigabytes of stuff, and whose service...
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Rock breaks scissors, bullets break Comcast fiber
- Cable tv publication Multichannel News reports that gunshot damage to Comcasts fiber-optic main service line took down cable service for some 7,500 customers in Palm Beach county, Florida.Service disruptions lasted from New Years Eve until early on January 3. Some 20 separate nodes were affected.It wasnt an overly ticked-off customer...
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- #9 Most-Read Post in 2006: "Some Vonage users are frustrated about Comcast Connection quality"
- This week, I am going to count down the Top 10 most-read items on this blog during 2006. Number 9 is "Some Vonage users are frustrated about Comcast connection quality."Originally posted back on March 1, the controversy first flared when a Vonage Forum Member named rdstoll began a...
- Blog posts 2006-12-18
- Comcast Digital Voice ramps up the "we're NOT over the Internet" message
- Ever since Comcast has been offering their Comcast Digital Voice service, theyve been marketing the fact that this service travels over Comcast connections and not the public Internet. As shown above, theres this eMTA embedded Multimedia Terminal Adapter that the installer comes to your home and sets up -...
- Blog posts 2006-12-05
- Comcast VoIP 1, Dave "Grandfather of Internet" Farber, 0
- And so, as Rich Tehrani reports, it played out in a Texas courtroom yesterday when Comcast successfully defended itself against a $2.2 billion lawsuit filed by Caritas Techologies.Dave Farber, who is often cited as the "grandfather of the Internet," holds a series of VoIP-related patents. That was, and is,...
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
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- My scareware night and how McAfee lost a customer
- With their Comcast and AT&T dealsMcAfee has a huge market share hereit pretty much does nothing to prevent being infected by these rogue antivirus attacks.I have found Combofix (http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix)is the most effective tool to remove these things but even that isn't 100%.Usually you will want to rename it before you...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Clearwire: 'Google believes in us'
- Google investmentsI wonder if Google will now start investing in Verizon's LTE buildout. The two companies have become quite chummy lately.Has google made any further investments in Clearwire? New marketsA friend of mine is setting up sales territory in the Raleigh and Philly markets for Clearwire. He's totally...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- WSJ: NBC Universal valued at $30 billion; Stage set for Comcast-GE deal this week?
- Obama admin will never let it happenGiven that NBC is the official propaganda channel for Comrade Obama, expect the administration to use the Justice Department to block a sale.A new ownership might change the dirty underwear at NBC News, and the Obama radicals can't allow that to happen.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- WSJ: NBC Universal valued at $30 billion; Stage set for Comcast-GE deal this week?
- A Wall Street Journal report notes that Comcast and GE have come to an agreement on how to determine the value of NBC Universal by Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- Net Neutrality: You own the Internet - make sure it becomes Law
- how to get from there to herewhile net neutrality makes a lot of sense to most people, how can we make sure that it becomes law. Our open source government democracy is decidedly NOT neutral, and the same interests that would take away our rights on the internet, are the...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- In recession, VoIP makes strong case for cutting your home landline
- Tempting, but I will passI've considered VoIP several times over the years, but it usually just takes a few phone calls with a friend or relative who is using VoIP before I change my mind! Not infrequently, the conversation becomes a warbling mess. Then there are times we...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
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