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Comcast trademarks “True Gig” and plans multi-gigabit Internet service

Ars Technica - ‎5 hours ago‎
Comcast is also using True Gig to describe online video streaming, specifically "provision of non-downloadable films, movies, and television programs via an online video-on-demand service; providing entertainment information via television, cable ...

Comcast Starts To Deploy All-IP Boxes For X1

Multichannel News - ‎1 hour ago‎
Comcast hasn't made a formal announcement about the deployment of the Xi3, but word that it is being offered on select markets has begun to appear on Comcast message boards about X1, the MSO's next-gen video platform that is currently being anchored ...
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Comcast-Time Warner deal hitting head winds?

New York Business Journal (blog) - ‎Oct 27, 2014‎
For starters, the general public really doesn't like Comcast, which has won various distinctions for its abysmal customer service record.
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Comcast to hire 450 for new call center

Albuquerque Business First - ‎Oct 27, 2014‎
Comcast announced on Monday ​that it will bring 450 new jobs to a new call center in the Renaissance corridor of Albuquerque.
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Comcast moving quickly to fill hundreds of jobs

Albuquerque Business First - ‎2 hours ago‎
Comcast is expecting to move quickly to fill 450 seats in a new call center. "This new facility represents our latest investment in the tools, technologies and people that will help improve our customers' experience with us," said Chris Dunkeson, area ...

Watchdog in S. Phila. doesn't shrink from Comcast

Philly.com - ‎Oct 26, 2014‎
Chris Morran, deputy editor of the piercing blog Consumerist.com, awakes each morning and doesn't have to look far for inspiration.
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A Comcast Executive Raises Doubts About Streaming Services

New York Times - ‎Oct 23, 2014‎
Comcast, the country's largest cable operator, predicts that television groups like HBO and CBS will face steep challenges introducing streaming services that do not require cable subscriptions and that people will continue to pay for a bundle of ...
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Five Reasons Why Critics of Comcast's Time Warner Cable Deal Are Feeling ...

Re/code - ‎21 hours ago‎
It could be months before regulators decide if they'll allow Comcast to buy Time Warner Cable, but critics of the deal are already sounding cautiously optimistic it'll either be killed or heavily conditioned.

Comcast Goes For 'True Gig' Trademark

Multichannel News (blog) - ‎Oct 27, 2014‎
The current, fastest residential broadband service offered by Comcast is Extreme 505, a $399.95 per month, targeted fiber-to-the-premises product that today offers 505 Mbps downstream by 100 Mbps upstream.
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The cable bundle may be weakening, but Comcast is poised to be stronger than ...

Washington Post - ‎Oct 24, 2014‎
A curious thing happened to the cable television industry after HBO and CBS announced streaming services that deeply threaten the lucrative cable bundle: The cable companies' stocks have been climbing higher.

Patricia: Manning 'the best at what he does'

Comcast SportsNet New England (blog) - ‎3 hours ago‎
Through eight games, Peyton Manning leads the league in touchdown passes and quarterback rating. He's second in the league in completion percentage and third in passing yards per game.

Comcast repairing damage

Mercer Island Reporter (subscription) - ‎Oct 27, 2014‎
Much of Comcast's equipment is on PSE power poles or is adjacent to those pole. The first people who can touch a power pole that's been damaged are power crews; they restore electricity and make the area safe.

Customer says Comcast overcharged him and got him fired; sues in federal court

ConsumerAffairs - ‎Oct 21, 2014‎
Last Thursday, O'Rourke filed suit against Comcast, alleging among other things that the cable giant violated federal privacy law when, presumably in retaliation for O'Rourke's complaints of bad customer service, someone at Comcast contacted O'Rourke's ...
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Senator Calls on Comcast to Extend Net Neutrality Pledge

New York Times (blog) - ‎Oct 21, 2014‎
The chairman of the Senate committee that oversees mergers and antitrust issues sent a pointed letter to Comcast on Monday asking the company to strengthen its commitment to net neutrality by pledging never to create Internet fast lanes.

The 7 Most Heavily Shorted Nasdaq Stocks

24/7 Wall St. - ‎Oct 27, 2014‎
Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) experienced a rise of 0.5% in short interest during the two-week period. Some 4.7% of the company's shares are held short and the days to cover was five.

Another delay in CSN Houston bankruptcy case

Chron.com (blog) - ‎Oct 27, 2014‎
Minutes before a 10 a.m. Monday deadline to submit their final alterations to a Chapter 11 plan of reorganization for the Astros-Rockets-Comcast-owned network, which calls for it to be sold to AT&T and DirecTV and renamed Root Sports Houston, attorneys ...

NHL Wrap: Rangers net 5 in 3rd, rally to stun Wild

Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia - ‎16 hours ago‎
Anthony Duclair (left) reacts after scoring one of the Rangers' five third-period goals in their comeback win. (USA Today Images).

Sixers: Radio deal renewed; New CSN Philly analyst named

Philadelphia Business Journal - ‎2 hours ago‎
On the television side, Comcast SportsNet said it has retained its game crew of play-by-play announcer Marc Zumoff, color analyst Malik Rose and sideline reporter Molly Sullivan.
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FCC Pauses Both AT&T-DirecTV and Comcast-Time Warner Mergers

Latin Post - ‎Oct 25, 2014‎
The hold cuts the $48.5 billion AT&T-DirecTV process off at day 76, while $45 billion Comcast-Time Warner Cable proposal had already been put on the back burner at day 85 earlier in October "on the grounds that Comcast had not fully responded to to the ...
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