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Comcast Today: How to Get Cheaper Internet

Over at Vox, former Philadelphia writer Timothy B. Lee writes how his Xfinity Internet service nearly doubled in price over its original monthly rate — […]

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Comcast Will Encrypt Email

The Wall Street Journal reports: “Comcast Corp. , the nation’s largest Internet provider by number of homes and businesses served, Tuesday said it would begin […]

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Comcast Today: Watch John Oliver Explain Net Neutrality

We sometimes wonder how to explain net neutrality issues to you, since it defies a simple English explanation. Well, we’re going to outsource the job […]

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Comcast Today: Xfinity’s Misleading Game Commercial

Straight to headlines today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lehhEW6iuF8 Comcast received some scathing Reddit criticism for trying to appeal to game nerds in a recent commercial. In a commercial […]

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Three Possible Reasons That Everyone Hates Comcast

Last week I wrote that  “net neutrality is a dumb idea” in Forbes and received a ton of comments (most in bitter opposition to my […]

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Brian Roberts Defends Time Warner Merger

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts stepped forward Wednesday to defend his company’s acquisition of Time Warner Cable, suggesting concerns that the merger would result in reduced […]

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Xfinity Customers Relax: You Can Take Your Cable TV to the Shore

Everybody like to gripe about Comcast, we know this. But sometimes the Kabletown Kolossus does things right! Like this week, they’re making it eaiser for […]

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Comcast Building “Largest Lobbying Team Ever Seen”

“Comcast is waging a campaign of shock and awe for its proposed merger with Time Warner Cable by fielding one of the biggest lobbying teams […]

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Will AT&T Merger Kill Comcast Deal?

“AT&T, sensing that the Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger might be an issue for its attempt to dominate the Internet market, has agreed to shell out $48.5 billion in cash […]

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Comcast, Facing Backlash, Walks Back “Data Caps” Comments

We told you Thursday that Comcast vice president David L. Cohen had discussed the possibility of imposing “data caps” on customers’ Internet use, probably within […]

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Comcast Wants to Impose “Data Caps” on Internet Use

Warning: If you watch a lot of Hulu or Netflix, Comcast‘s Internet service is probably going to get more expensive for you sometime in the […]

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Comcast Today: You Must Watch the Commercials

The downside of Comcast’s new deal (third item) that lets it offer Time Warner shows from TNT, TBS and several other networks as video on […]

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Comcast Today: Pitching the Merger

Straight to the headlines today: In the hopes of further cementing support for their $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable, Comcast this week took […]

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Al Franken Presses Crusade Against Comcast

CNET has a big interview with Sen. Al Franken, Capitol Hill’s most outspoken opponent of the Comcast-Time Warner merger. An excerpt: But what about the […]

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Comcast Today: House Grills Execs on Time Warner Merger

Comcast’s merger with Time Warner may yet get approval from federal authorities. But it won’t be because of popularity. That much was clear after Thursday’s […]