[ad_1] Mozilla’s effort to secure domain name requests now has a major new ally: Comcast. The cable giant’s Xfinity brand has become the first internet provider to provide encrypted DNS services through Mozilla’s Trusted Recursive Resolver program. If you’re a Firefox user with Xfinity service, it should be that much harder for people to snoop […]
Category: internet service provider
Cox slows an entire neighborhood’s internet after one person’s ‘excessive use’
[ad_1] Cox contacted Mike via phone and email saying they needed to talk to him about his internet use. The company reportedly warned Mike that “adjustments need to be made immediately,” or else his service would be terminated. Then, Cox told Mike in an email that “… we’ve adjusted our Gigablast upload speeds in your […]
AT&T and Comcast improve internet access in response to COVID-19
[ad_1] Comcast is focussing on its Internet Essentials program, which provides broadband to low-income Americans for $9.95 per month. Now, new, qualifying customers can sign up for 60 days at no cost, and Comcast is boosting broadband speeds for all Internet Essentials customers. Over the next few days, it will bump speeds from 15/2 Mbps […]
Canadian court issues first ever ISP order to block a piracy website
[ad_1] Many Canadian ISPs, including Bell, Rogers and Videotron, also function as cable providers and in some cases, broadcasters. Bell Canada, joined later by Rogers, started pushing Canada’s regulator, the CRTC, to create a blacklist of sites that let people download pirated TV shows and movies. All ISPs would then be required to block such […]
Three UK rolls out 5G home internet access in London
[ad_1] You can get the equipment the next day for free, but Three will bring it to you the same day for £20 ($24). This isn’t the mobile 5G service you might have hoped for, although Three recently said it would deploy the next-gen wireless service in 25 UK cities by the end of 2019. […]
Comcast to pay $9.1 million for adding service plans without consent
[ad_1] Just over 240,000 of the stated violations were committed by signing up customers who were completely oblivious. For the remaining 205,000 violations, Comcast is accused of either failing to mention the cost or falsely representing it. The pure damages will only account for a fraction of the $85 million Comcast is estimated to have […]
Maine passes bill requiring ISPs to ask permission before selling data
[ad_1] On top of the data transfer restrictions, the measure bars ISPs from using a lack of consent as an excuse to charge users extra or deny them service. There are exceptions for either selling the ISP’s own products or honoring a court order. The bill echoes similar efforts in places like Seattle, and effectively […]
Charter will expand broadband network so it can stay in New York
[ad_1] The penalty isn’t particularly bad for the multi-billion dollar corporation, which faced a potential eviction from New York after the state’s Public Service Commission (PSC) voted last year to revoke its approval of Charter’s 2016 purchase of Time Warner Cable. Had that order gone forward, the company would have been forced to sell Time […]