HBO Max, the HBO-anchored streaming service from AT&T’s WarnerMedia, launched Wednesday without a confirmed deal with Comcast to give a free upgrade to the new service — packed with extra movies and shows — to HBO subscribers on the nation’s biggest cable service. But Comcast’s Xfinity Twitter account spill the news of a better-late-than-never deal Wednesday, telling the company’s high-tech X1 …
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Comcast adds 5G data plans to its Xfinity Mobile service
Xfinity Mobile, Comcast’s cell phone service that uses Verizon’s network, is adding new data plans that will allow those with the proper phones to be able to take advantage of Verizon’s millimeter-wave 5G network. Announced on Monday, the new plans will continue to allow data to be purchased either by the gigabyte or as unlimited data for the month. The …
Read More »The best free stuff while you’re stuck at home
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. With schools, stores, restaurants and theaters closed — and “social distancing” a top contender for Merriam-Webster’s word of the year — we all need lots of ways to entertain ourselves. Since most of us still have a lot of time at home ahead …
Read More »Lockdown is making us TV zombies who watch news and sad shows all the time
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Comcast, the biggest cable provider in the US, crunched the numbers on our TV habits during coronavirus lockdown, and the results are in: You’re not the only one binge-watching news and depressing dramas like a screen zombie when you’re supposed to be working or …
Read More »FCC calls for all carriers to extend their Keep America Connected pledge
Federal Communications Commission chair Ajit Pai has asked all carriers and internet service providers to extend their pledge to waive late fees and disconnections amid the coronavirus pandemic until June 30. It comes after the major carriers AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Comcast earlier this week extended their vow not to cut off services to customers through June. “Hundreds of providers have …
Read More »TV providers asked to stop charging customers for live sports
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday asked seven cable and satellite TV providers to cut or eliminate fees linked to live sports amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Companies are continuing to charge customers for live sports programming, despite the fact that events …
Read More »AT&T, Verizon, T
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. The nation’s largest wireless and broadband companies are extending their promise to not disconnect service through June 30, in an effort to help customers through the COVID-19 crisis. In March, these service providers voluntarily signed on to the Federal Communications Commission’s Keep Americans …
Read More »NBC’s Peacock sorta launches. The real Peacock won’t show up for a while
Peacock‘s streaming service officially kicked off Wednesday. But for many people curious about NBCUniversal‘s first strike in the streaming wars, the launch may be easier to understand by what you won’t get now: You can’t get Peacock at all unless you’re a Comcast Xfinity X1 or Flex subscriber, as originally planned. Even if you are one of those Comcast customers, you won’t get a mobile …
Read More »NBC’s Peacock looks like a stream
The new Peacock streaming service launches Wednesday for Comcast customers — and to them, it will probably feel familiar. Rather than creating another Netflix interface knockoff, Peacock adopts an atypical, complex look for its first iteration on Comcast’s TV boxes. But its nationwide launch in July, when everyone can get hold of Peacock on other TV streamers, phones and other devices, will really …
Read More »Coronavirus has made peak internet usage into the new normal
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Cities throughout the US have emptied out amid the coronavirus outbreak. Millions of people are working from home, children are attending school remotely, and no one’s heading to ballparks, nightclubs or movie theaters. They’ve all turned to their home broadband connections to stay …
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