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As people around the US remain hunkered down, Comcast’s Xfinity Flex is getting another popular app to keep its users entertained. On Thursday the cable giant announced it’s bringing Hulu to its free streaming box. The app, which is available now on the Flex, will be coming to Comcast’s X1 cable boxes “soon.” Voice control will …

Peacock, NBCUniversal‘s coming streaming-video service, will be free with advertising when it rolls out nationally July 15 coinciding with the summer Olympics, the company said Thursday at a star-studded unveiling. But to unlock Peacock‘s so-called “Premium” selection, with all its original programming and double the library, you need to pay either $5 a month to stream with advertising or $10 to go …

With an April 2020 launch on the horizon for NBCUniversal’s streaming service, Peacock, more details should be coming to light in January.  NBCUniversal owner Comcast is scheduled to hold an investor meeting on Jan. 16 to “discuss NBCUniversal’s plans for its new Peacock streaming service, including the overarching strategy for the platform,” Comcast said in a statement Wednesday. Details are scarce …

T-Mobile and Comcast have teamed up with voice and messaging services provider Inteliquent to demonstrate the first end-to-end call over three networks using the Shaken/Stir framework, which validates where calls originate. The news is a big step forward in implementing the technology, which many hope will slow the growing pace of annoying robocalls.  The companies say they’ve worked out the …

 Locast — a nonprofit startup that grabs over-the-air channels and streams them free over the internet — said late Thursday that the four giant US broadcasters’ “sham litigation” against it is an antitrust conspiracy to drive it out of business and threaten its supporters. Locast’s first official answer to the copyright suit goes beyond simply rejecting the companies’ accusations of …

Cable provider Altice USA is looking to shake up the wireless market in the US with a new offer that dramatically undercuts the competition. On Thursday, it said it will offer customers unlimited mobile service for just $20 a month. Even its non-cable subscribers can get in on the action for just $30 a month.  Altice Mobile will use AT&T …

Spam and robocalls are such a nuisance and a widespread problem — Americans endured over 26 billion of them in 2018 — that the FCC has stepped in, fining four companies responsible for billions of robocalls. Stopping robocalls on your own is one thing, but the FCC has also tasked the communications industry with curbing the number of robocalls we all receive …

Verizon’s 4G LTE network currently is the backbone behind Comcast‘s and Charter’s respective mobile services, Xfinity Mobile and Spectrum Mobile. Now, it appears that the wireless carrier’s 5G network will be what powers the cable companies’ expansion into offering mobile 5G.  According to a new report from Light Reading, “at some point in the future” both Xfinity Mobile and Spectrum …

Twelve miles from the hustle and bustle of Times Square lies the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville, a part of New York few tourists ever see. Gone are the flashing lights and high-tech billboards of the “crossroads of the world.” Instead, there’s a two-story sleek building that stands in stark contrast to the bare, industrial streets surrounding it.  It’s in this …

Comcast’s Xfinity is suffering nationwide outages, according to Down Detector and Twitter users, with the internet service down altogether or slowing right now. The problem is hitting areas of California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Texas and Washington state. damnit xfinity I was literally 5 minutes from the end of the second to last episode of …