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Locast, a small, nonprofit service that streamed over-the-air channels free online to more than 3 million US viewers, is suspending operations immediately, the company said Thursday, after suffering a legal setback in its copyright battle with the country’s biggest media companies earlier this week. The decision comes one day after Locast vowed to remain “committed …

Comcast is delaying its 1.2TB data cap for Xfinity broadband customers in the northeast US until at least 2022, the company said in a blog post Thursday. Comcast stressed in the post that “only a very small percentage of customers” need more data than that, but the company wants to give people more time “to become familiar with the new plan.” As …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Low-income subscribers to Comcast’s Internet Essentials broadband service will soon see their speeds double at no additional charge. The service, which currently offers 25Mbps downloads, will automatically be upgraded to 50Mbps starting March 1, the company said Tuesday. Upload speeds will also go …

Wonder Woman 1984 may have left HBO Max on Jan. 24, but those looking for something new to watch on WarnerMedia’s streaming service will have plenty of options in the coming months. As it announced last year, all Warner Bros. theatrical films in 2021 will be concurrently released in theaters and on HBO Max. The next big release, The Little …

Comcast and Walmart are in talks about getting into the smart TV market, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The retailer is apparently looking at promoting TVs that carry Comcast software, anonymous sources told the paper. A deal would give Comcast the opportunity to promote Peacock, the streaming service it launched earlier this year, the Journal noted. Neither Comcast nor …

T-Mobile’s TVision, a newly announced bundle of live streaming channels, gives the company’s traditional wireless customers another reason to stick with the carrier. And just around the corner is a 5G-based home broadband service that could make leaving T-Mobile a much more complicated task.  Phone. Television. Home internet. Sound familiar? T-Mobile is in effect resurrecting a 2.0 version of the …

The battle between Roku and Comcast over Peacock is expanding, with the telecom and media giant now asking Roku to pull NBC apps from its streaming TVs and devices. On Friday, Comcast asked Roku to remove NBC TV Everywhere apps from its platform. According to Variety, 46 apps could be affected, including the main NBC app. Comcast owns NBCUniversal, which …

Peacock, the free streaming service from Comcast‘s NBCUniversal that launched on July 15, is finally coming to Roku. After news broke that NBCUniversal’s other apps on Roku were going to be removed from the streaming platform on Friday, the two sides were able to finally reach a deal. As part of the deal, those apps — which include the main NBC app — …

Comcast will establish over 1,000 free Wi-Fi “lift zones” in community centers throughout the country, the company said on Thursday. The program is designed to help connect low-income families to the internet for educational purposes, as well as remote work and after-school care.  Since 2011, Comcast’s Internet Essentials program has “helped connect more than 8 million low-income people to the …

Verizon Communications and Dish Network were the big winners of the Federal Communications Commission’s 3.5 GHz spectrum auction, which concluded last week.  A total of 228 entities bid on so-called midband spectrum licenses worth nearly $4.6 billion. The spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band is considered important for building 5G wireless networks across the country, because it allows for broader network …