Comcast to Offer Web-Based Phone Service
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Comcast Corp. is joining the crowd of major cable TV and telephone companies venturing into Internet-based phone service, but with a higher price and extra features which the nation's largest cable provider hopes will set its product apart.
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DENVER, Sept. 19  /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast is adding more than 500 jobs across Colorado, the company announced today.  New customer service employees will assist local residential and commercial customers from two new Comcast customer service call centers in Denver and Colorado Springs.
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By Andy Vuong, The Denver Post  Sep. 19--Comcast plans to add 500 call-center jobs in Colorado by the end  of 2007, the cable giant said Monday.
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Comcast said on Monday that it will make Microsoft set-top box software available to more than half a million customers in the Seattle area.
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Cable company Comcast and Microsoft announced a deal Monday that will offer the software giant's new digital cable software platform to more than 1 million homes beginning next week.
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Ribbit, based in Mountain View, Calif., will announce a telephone Web service intended to make it possible for programmers to add telephone features to any Web page.
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The nation's biggest cable company said it plans to roll out phone service nationally within the next year and a half in its bid to become the primary alternative to local phone companies such as Verizon Communications. -The Washington Post
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By Carly Harrington, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Dec. 8--Comcast Cable plans to expand its Knoxville headquarters and add  more than 200 jobs in East Tennessee next year.
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A plan aims to offer Comcast subscribers a nearly limitless supply of movies and TV shows that can be viewed on demand and through the Internet.
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Plan aims to offer Comcast subscribers a nearly limitless supply of movies and TV shows that can be viewed on demand and through the Internet.
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By MARTHA McKAY, STAFF WRITER  Comcast plans to hire more than 500 people in New Jersey by the end of the year to meet increased customer demand, the company said Friday.
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Verizon Communications on Tuesday launched its Iobi service that merges regular telephone lines with Internet-based features such as voice messages available through e-mail and automatic call forwarding.
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Comcast Corp  on Monday said it plans to offer residential phone service over Internet lines to about half of the homes in its territory by the end of 2005, raising the stakes in its fight against telephone companies.
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Broadband provider Covad Communications Group Inc. is launching an inexpensive Internet-based phone system for very small companies that is compatible with conventional telephones.
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SBC Communications announced Tuesday that it would offer residential Internet-based calling, joining what could be the future of home-phone service.
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At CES 2008 last month, it was surprising to see Comcast as a brand being tossed around with the likes of Matsushita, Motorola, and Sony. Now it's time to see if its video-on-demand strategy is starting to pay off.
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Internet phone service, a burgeoning technology that allows people to make cheap calls to almost anywhere over broadband connections, is getting a boost from retailers.