19 Facts About Comcast Xfinity

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, doing business as Xfinity, is an American telecommunications company and division of Comcast Corporation used to market consumer cable television, internet, telephone, and wireless services provided by the company.

Comcast Xfinity began offering internet services in late 1996, when it helped found the @Home Network, which sold internet service through Comcast Xfinity's cable lines.

In 2011, Comcast Xfinity launched its "Internet Essentials" program, which offers low-cost internet service to families with children who qualify for free or reduced price school lunches.

Comcast Xfinity has stated that the program will accept new customers for a total of three years.

Comcast Xfinity unveiled the xFi Advanced Gateway, a new router designed to facilitate faster Wi-Fi speeds, including support for 802.

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In October 2016, Comcast Xfinity announced that bandwidth thresholds would be implemented in the majority of its markets beginning November 1,2016.

In September 2007, a rumor emerged among tech blogs that Comcast Xfinity was throttling or even blocking internet traffic transmitted via the BitTorrent protocol.

Comcast Xfinity vehemently denied the accusations of blocking traffic, stating that "Comcast Xfinity does not, has not, and will not block any Web sites or online applications, including peer-to-peer services", and that "We engage in reasonable network management".

However, after filing a lawsuit in September 2008, Comcast Xfinity overturned the illegality of its network management in 2010, as the court ruled that the FCC lacked the authority to enforce net neutrality under the FCC's then current regulatory policy.

At the start of 2012, Comcast Xfinity stood as the United States' third-largest residential telephone provider.

Telephone services over VoIP are not automatically tied to a physical address, Comcast Xfinity Voice utilizes E911 to help 911 service operators to automatically locate the source of the 911 call.

Comcast Xfinity has had ten year agreements with CBS Disney, and Fox Broadcasting Company for distributing and reproducing content.

Comcast Xfinity instated Broadcast TV Fee to gain lost profit from paying more expensive fees to retransmit programming content.

The service has a burglar and fire alarm, surveillance cameras, and wireless motion sensors put on doorways and windows to detect when said doorway or window was opened, and to detect when someone was in a house when it was vacant, However, Comcast Xfinity Home had a vulnerability that when exploited, falsely reported that all was well.

The wireless motion sensors Comcast Xfinity Home used could be easily jammed, and thus disabled, by radio frequencies.

In March 2011, Comcast Xfinity created an indirect sales channel called the Solution Provider Program, a comprehensive indirect channel program that enables telecommunications consultants and system integrators to sell Comcast Xfinity's services such as Business Class Internet, Voice, and high-capacity Ethernet services to small and mid-market businesses.

The program offers recurring commissions for sales partners based on monthly revenue, and Comcast Xfinity will provide, install, manage and bill for these services.

Comcast Xfinity currently sponsors the NASCAR Comcast Xfinity Series and is a NASCAR Cup Series premier sponsor.

Xfinity and its parent company Comcast were sued through putative class action on June 19,2018, by Illinois customer Elizabeth O' Neill, over accusations of opening Xfinity Mobile accounts for customers without their consent, and failing to notify customers when the same accounts were infiltrated without their authorization to buy new cell phones from Comcast's website.