Counting heads and dollars at Comcast Arena
HeraldNet (blog)
The Comcast Arena sign is readied for installation in 2008. A naming-rights agreement with Comcast provides about $325000 a year in revenue. City leaders hoped Comcast Arena would revive a stagnant downtown when it opened in the fall of 2003.

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Comcast raises rates; competitors prices go up as well
Atlanta Journal Constitution
By Kristi E. Swartz Many of metro Atlanta Comcast customers started off the year with higher cable bills as the nation's top cable provider raised rates for most of its TV packages. Phil Skinner, pskinner@ajc.com Most of Comcast's packages, …

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Comcast makes effort to close the digital gap
The Free Lance-Star
LAST FALL, Comcast, the nation's largest residential Internet service provider, launched a program, Internet Essentials, that could provide 3 million low-income children–including thousands in our area–with access to affordable broadband and …
Comcast expands eligibility rules to get $9.99 Internet to students receiving …The Grand Rapids Press – MLive.com
Comcast Looks to Nonprofits to Help Distribute Low-Cost BroadbandThe Nonprofit Quarterly (blog)
Program for low-income families will offer them a computerTowanda Daily Review
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Blue Arkansas

Comcast expands broadband program for low-income families
Yorkdispatch.com
Comcast is planning to expand a new program that provides broadband access for $9.95 a month to low-income families. The company released data after its first five months of the Internet Essentials program. About 41000 customers have signed up so far, …
Group raps Comcast work on low-cost InternetArkansas Times (blog)
Comcast expands Web aidBoston Herald
Comcast may double speed of Economy high-speed Internet tierFierceCable
Boston Globe -Tarentum Valley News Dispatch -ZDNet (blog)
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Comcast expands eligibility rules to get $9.99 Internet to students receiving …
The Grand Rapids Press – MLive.com
GRAND RAPIDS – Almost six months ago, Comcast launched a program to bring Internet access to low-income families for just $9.95 per month, with the option to purchase a computer for $149.99. The cable company announced this week it has expanded …
Comcast Expands Low-Income Internet ProgramPatch.com

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Portfolio.com

Verizon's Cozying Up With Comcast Draws Attention
New York Times (blog)
By BRIAN X. CHEN | February 2, 2012, 9:02 pm Verizon, the nation's top wireless carrier, and Comcast, the cable company, have gotten awfully close lately, and politicians have taken notice. The two companies have made two separate deals that …
Verizon Wireless-Comcast Deal Meets Political ResistanceWall Street Journal
Comcast, Verizon's joint marketing effort docks in Bay AreaCommunications, Engineering & Design Magazine
Comcast offers discount on Verizon Wireless serviceSan Jose Mercury News
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Yahoo!7 News

Verizon Wireless-Comcast Deal Meets Political Resistance
Wall Street Journal
By THOMAS CATAN And GREG BENSINGER WASHINGTON—Political headwinds are building against a marketing alliance between Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless operator, and cable giant Comcast Corp., amid worries that cooperation between the two …
Comcast, Verizon Wireless Link Arms In San FranciscoMultichannel News
Comcast offers discount on Verizon Wireless serviceSan Jose Mercury News
Verizon, Comcast double team AT&T in Bay Area battleGigaOm
Sacramento Bee -FierceCable
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Group raps Comcast work on low-cost Internet
Arkansas Times (blog)
Lindsey Millar wrote this week about Comcast's follow-through on the requirement that it provide low-cost Internet service to poor families with school children as part of the deal by which it took over NBC. More here from a union and community groups, …
Comcast Expands Low-Income Internet ProgramPatch.com
Comcast plans to expand eligibility for reduced-price InternetYorkdispatch.com
Comcast expands Web aidBoston Herald
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Comcast apologizes, resolves Carbondale porno complaint
Glenwood Springs Post Independent
CARBONDALE, Colorado — The Comcast cable television company has apologized to a local woman over her exposure to pornography on TV on a recent Sunday morning. “We still feel that this was a fairly isolated incident,” said Cindy Parsons, a Comcast vice …

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Digitaltrends.com

Broadband-based Comcast enters home-security market long tied to land lines
Denver Post
(AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post) Comcast is rolling out broadband-based home security and monitoring in metro Denver today, jumping into a market long tied to rival telcoms' land-line phone service. The new offering, which will initially require a …
Comcast Helps Power the Digital Home with the Launch of "Xfinity Home" Service …MarketWatch (press release)
Comcast patent reveals social TV plansDigitaltrends.com

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