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The Slowskys are a national television advertising campaign for Comcast Cable's Xfinity broadband Internet service. [2] The ads feature an animatronic turtle couple, Bill and Karolyn Slowsky. The ads are based on the idea that DSL, which Xfinity claims is slower than their service, is only fast enough for people who like things very slow. In ...
Subscriber counts are sourced from each companies quarterly reports. Subscriber counts include what each companies quarterly report states, whether it be just postpaid and prepaid (as in the case of Boost Mobile and UScellular) or a combination of postpaid, prepaid and fixed-wireless access as in the case of AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon).
AT&T's LTE rollout was noticeably slower than that of its competitor, Verizon Wireless, with the company stating that its then-proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA would be necessary. [56] In November 2012, AT&T promoted the network as serving 150 million users, with plans to double its coverage by 2014. [57]
Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in the United States lease wireless telephone and data service from the four major cellular carriers in the country—AT&T Mobility, Boost Mobile, T-Mobile US, and Verizon—and offer various levels of free and/or paid talk, text and data services to their customers.
Xfinity, a division of Comcast, is a leading provider of internet, TV, phone and home security services across more than 40 states.While Xfinity’s standard plans start at $35 per month, its ...
On April 6, 2017, Comcast launched Xfinity Mobile, a mobile virtual network operator on the Verizon mobile network. [115] Xfinity Mobile provides prepaid (with users able to purchase data in 1 GB bundles) and monthly unlimited plans, with the latter throttled after 20 GB of use. The service is sold exclusively to Comcast internet subscribers ...
Verizon Wireless offers mobile phone services through a variety of devices. [9] Its LTE in Rural America Program, with 21 rural wireless carriers participating, covers 2.7 million potential users in 169 rural counties. [10] Verizon Wireless announced in 2015 that it was developing a 5G, or fifth-generation, network. [11]
In terms of public policy, Internet bottlenecks and/or network congestion has largely been nested within the network neutrality debate. Network neutrality is the notion that ISPs and content providers need to be regulated in order to maintain fair speeds and access to content for all Internet users.