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Caught on Tape: Comcast tech sleeping?

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

First it was an AOL tech caught on tape earlier this week for refusing to let a customer cancel an account.
Now, there’s a YouTube video circulating that supossedly shows a Comcast service technician in the Washington, DC area asleep on a customer’s couch as he waits on the phone for over an hour to talk […]

Comcast planning speed boosts

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

With DSL competition breathing hard down its neck, Comcast is rolling out a service called PowerBoost that will basically double downoad speeds for customers subscribing to its 6 and 8 Mbps cable modem service tiers.
Customers in New England states already have it. The company says it will expand across other areas in future weeks.
The free […]

Wide Open West sold - no changes planned

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

The Midwestern cable company Wide Open West which operates in Southeastern Michigan and across parts of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio has, in effect, been sold to Avista Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity company.
The deal will take several months to go through legal review and franchise agreement procedures with the various local governments that […]

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