Comcast Launches New Wireless Service, Xfinity Mobile (cnbc.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday April 6, 2017 @02:40AM from the more-choices dept.

Comcast announced Xfinity Mobile on Thursday, a new wireless service that will be available for its nearly 25 million broadband customers. From a report on CNBC: The company is hoping the new service will lock in existing customers as well as attract new ones, going after the 130 million mobile phone lines in places where Comcast offers services. The company says the service is "designed for the way people use their phones today, with Internet and data at the center of the experience." Comcast is not taking a Wi-Fi-first approach, but is pairing 4G LTE via Verizon's network along with Comcast's 16 million Wi-Fi hotspots, to which the service will automatically connect.

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MONOPOLY COLLUSION AND WORSE by PortHaven · 2017-04-06 04:25 · Score: 4, Insightful

If anyone wondered why Verizon ceased expanding FiOS and competing with Comcast. It's because they have been colluding. It began when Comcast sold Verizon some wireless spectrum it was holding cheap. In exchance, Verizon essentially ceased expansion of FiOS, and both began cross-selling each others services. Now it's moved one step beyond that.
Frankly, how the Federal Trade Commission can turn a blind eye to this crap, I have no idea.
Laws are not for the corporations and elites, only for you!!!