Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Comcast is ...

Comcast will automatically increase speeds offered by its Internet Essentials program on March 1. The announcement arrived shortly after the company received complaints from some students who said it ...

Bottom line: With today's eligibility expansion, Comcast estimates that more than three million additional low-income households will now be eligible to apply for Internet Essentials. Given how ...

Comcast announced today it is significantly expanding eligibility for Internet Essentials, which is the nation’s largest, most comprehensive, and most successful broadband adoption program in America, ...

Programs to bring internet access to low-income Philadelphians have reduced the digital divide in the city, but the organizations behind them plan to partner with community groups to shrink it further ...

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On the 10 th anniversary of its Internet Essentials program, Comcast today announced it would invest $1 billion over the next 10 years to help further close the digital ...

Comcast extends its subsidized broadband program beyond its June 2014 commitment. The cable giant started the program back in 2011 as part of its conditions for its merger with NBC Universal.

Houston is now the number one ranked city in America in terms of its overall participation rate in the Internet Essentials program. “The research on the causes of the digital divide is very clear,” ...

ALBUQUERQUE – With a customer base of 5,600 homes in Deming and Luna County, Internet Essentials announces its largest expansion ever in New Mexico. Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller and Albuquerque City ...

People with low incomes can get free Internet service through Comcast and a government program, but signing up is sometimes harder than it should be because of confusion within Comcast’s customer ...