Xfinity
American cable provider
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| February 4 2025 | Xfinity announced it will discontinue sponsorship of the NASCAR Xfinity Series after 2025, while maintaining its premier sponsorship of the NASCAR Cup Series. |
| April 2024 | Rogers announced a deeper technology partnership with Comcast and began rebranding its cable TV and internet products as 'Rogers Xfinity'. |
| January 2024 | Comcast agrees to stop using the 'Xfinity 10G Network' branding after BBB's ruling. |
| December 20 2023 | Xfinity suffered a major data breach that exposed personal information of 35.8 million customers, including usernames, passwords, and security question answers. The breach was caused by a vulnerability in the Citrix software used by the company. |
| June 2023 | Comcast deployed the 10-gigabit service for selected Gigabit Pro fiber business customers. |
| 2022 | Xfinity Flex and XClass TV were brought under Comcast's Xumo joint venture with Charter Communications and rebranded as Xumo Stream Box and Xumo TV respectively. |
| December 2022 | Comcast announced the trial of symmetric, 10-gigabit service using DOCSIS 4.0 technology. |
| October 2021 | Comcast launched XClass TV, a line of Hisense-manufactured smart TVs based on X1 platform, sold exclusively through Walmart. |
| 2020 | Xfinity began sponsoring the Xfinity 500 race at Martinsville Speedway in the NASCAR Cup Series. |
| November 23 2020 | Comcast announced a new 1.2 TB data cap would be implemented for remaining areas in the northeast by March 2021, but was postponed due to pressure from the Pennsylvanian attorney general. |
| May 18 2020 | Xfinity Mobile announced plans to expand its services with 5G data capabilities. |
| 2019 | Comcast launched Xfinity Flex, a digital media player add-on for Xfinity Internet subscribers, offering access to over-the-top media services. |
| June 2019 | King County court judge Timothy Bradshaw rules in favor of Washington State, ordering Comcast to pay 9.1 million dollars in penalties and provide customer restitution within 60 days. |
| 2018 | Xfinity Mobile surpassed 1 million subscribers in the third quarter of the year. |
| June 19 2018 | Illinois customer Elizabeth O'Neill files a putative class action lawsuit against Xfinity/Comcast for opening mobile accounts without customer consent and failing to notify customers of unauthorized account access. |
| May 2017 | Comcast launched xFi, a new software platform for modems offering a redesigned configuration interface, remote setup and management via mobile app, and smart home device integration. |
| April 6 2017 | Comcast launched Xfinity Mobile as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) using the Verizon mobile network, offering prepaid and monthly unlimited plans exclusively to Comcast internet subscribers. |
| October 2016 | Comcast announced bandwidth thresholds would be implemented in the majority of its markets beginning November 1, 2016. |
| August 2016 | Washington State files a 100 million dollar lawsuit against Xfinity/Comcast for violating the Consumer Protection Act 445,000 times, including overcharging for service fees and improper credit screening practices. |
| April 27 2016 | Comcast announced it would raise its data threshold to 1 TB by June 2016 in trial markets. |
| October 2015 | Comcast gained 89,000 new video subscribers in the fourth quarter, its highest gain since 2007. |
| June 25 2014 | The Supreme Court decided American Broadcasting Cos. v. Aereo, Inc. in a 6-3 decision favoring broadcasters, with NBCUniversal (Comcast's subsidiary) as one of the parties. |
| January 2014 | Comcast began charging a Broadcast TV Fee to offset rising costs of retransmitting broadcast television signals. |
| December 2013 | Comcast experienced its first quarterly customer gain since 2007, with a total of 21.7 million cable customers by year-end. |
| 2012 | Comcast modified its bandwidth policy, replacing the cap with a data threshold of 300 GB in some markets and charging $10 for every 50 GB over the limit. |
| May 2012 | Comcast soft-launched X1, a new hardware and software platform for television services, initially in Boston, featuring internet content support, video streaming apps, and voice recognition remote control. |
| January 2011 | Comcast launched the 'Internet Essentials' program, a low-cost internet service for families with children who qualify for free or reduced price school lunches, as a condition of their NBCUniversal acquisition. |
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