Comcast

How to get Comcast to waive its fee for cancelling a service

adamg — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:01:44 -0400

Comcast dumps local critic of Bill O'Reilly

adamg — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:04:23 -0400

Barry Nolan out at CN8. OK, granted, probably not somebody you've actually watched since his "Evening Magazine" days, but still. He got canned for objecting to Bill O'Reilly getting some sort of bloviator award from whoever it is who hands out regional Emmies.

A new way to get help from Comcast

adamg — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:50:51 -0400

Complain about them on Twitter:

... It seems that Comcast has gotten with the program, they even have their own Twitter account, and actively monitor Twitter and other sources for complaints. ...

A small window of time

adamg — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:51:32 -0400

Fabulously Out There decided to switch from Verizon to Comcast for broadband when the Verizon phone rep offered to send out a technician to diagnose her broken broadband "between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m." She reports her experience with Comcast hasn't been much better.

Big Brother coming to a Comcast set-top box near you?

adamg — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:51:23 -0400

Chris Albrecht posted this a couple days ago:

At the Digital Living Room conference today, Gerard Kunkel, Comcast's senior VP of user experience, told me the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who's in your living room.

Via Brian Kane.

Comcast and Tivo: A match made in hell?

adamg — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:54:21 -0400

Mike Hillwig discusses the suckage known as Comcast.

Orwell and Kafka would have understood Comcast

adamg — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:47:47 -0400

Lack of due process? Failure to contact the customer about a problem? Termination without explanation? Jpell explains, in great detail, how Comcast terminated his Internet service, twice, for allegedly using too much bandwidth without ever telling him a) just how much that was or b) warning him in advance.

Comcast stuffed FCC hearing in Cambridge yesterday

adamg — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:56:01 -0500

Gripping FCC testimony keeps hired Comcast space-savers glued to their seats. Photo by Free Press; more photos here.

Comcast hired people to get to the Harvard hearing early:

... Comcast spokewoman Jennifer Khoury said the company paid some people to arrive early and hold places in the queue for local Comcast employees who wanted to attend the hearing.

Some of those placeholders, however, did more than wait in line: they filled many of the seats at the meeting, according to eyewitnesses. As a result, scores of Comcast critics and other members of the public were denied entry because the room filled up well before the beginning of the hearing. ...

Comcast Tivo: Match made in hell

adamg — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:59:33 -0500

Brian recounts his first two weeks with the new Comcast Tivo service:

... The experience, while having so much potential for a quality product at a fair price, has been nothing short of disastrous. ...

Why Arlen Spector suddenly cares about Spygate

adamg — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:47:35 -0500

It's like they always say: Follow the money - right to everybody's favorite cable company.