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80-628: As of October 2024, the division does business as Rogers Xfinity , as part of a brand and technology licensing agreement with U.S. cable provider Comcast . Rogers was one of the first cable-system operators in Canada, having secured licences covering much of the then city of Toronto in the late 1960s. One of the first important acquisitions was in 1979, when Ted Rogers purchased a controlling interest in Canadian Cablesystems (CCL), which operated cable companies across Ontario, including

160-583: A Regulatory Recovery Fee of varying size(s) with their Digital Basic cable subscription in order to "recover additional costs associated with governmental programs". Since January 2014, Comcast has also charged a Broadcast TV Fee to "defray the rising costs of retransmitting broadcast television signals(sic)." In May 2012, Comcast softlaunched X1 (codenamed "Xcalibur"), a new hardware and software platform for its television services in Boston. It features wider support for internet content and video streaming apps, and

240-700: A bandwidth usage cap. Comcast Business services used to be sold exclusively through direct sales employees. In March 2011, Comcast 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'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 will provide, install, manage and bill for these services. For

320-456: A brand ( Rolls-Royce ). An arrangement to license a brand requires a licensing agreement. A licensing agreement authorizes a company which markets a product or service (a licensee) to lease or rent a brand from a brand owner who operates a licensing program (a licensor). Brand licensing is a well-established business, in both patents and trademarks . A concept established in British business,

400-501: A brief period, until Comcast shut it down around in late 2007. In 2009, after completing transition from their old service, Comcast had 7.6 million voice customers. As of the end of 2013, Comcast Digital Voice had reached 10.7 million subscribers. At the start of 2012, Comcast stood as the United States' third-largest residential line provider, supplying 9.34 million residential lines. Xfinity Voice allows communication over

480-518: A condition for allowing Comcast's acquisition of NBCUniversal in January 2011. Of an estimated 2.60 million households eligible for the program, about 220,000 households participate in the program as of June 2013. A similar program is available from other internet providers through the non-profit Connect2compete.org. Comcast has stated that the program will accept new customers for a total of three years. In March 2014, as he met with FCC concerning

560-681: A deeper technology partnership with Comcast in April 2024, and began rebranding its cable TV and internet products as "Rogers Xfinity" later that year. Beginning in the mid-2000s, the prices of retransmission fees, requirements for cable companies to retransmit television broadcasters content, have become more expensive. These fees (and the arguments over them between broadcasters and distributors) caused blackouts of certain (influential) television programming. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission then reviewed its rules for broadcasters and distributors to make any possible changes to them in response to

640-460: A fibre-based connection with Rogers. Additional funds will be allocated to complete the transition; while WQLN announced that they will spend $ 55,000 to provide a connection, WPBS agreed with Rogers not to disclose the cost of the fibre-optic signal for their own station. The introduction of Rogers' "Navigatr" user interface in mid-2015 was heavily criticized by users for being poorly designed and harder to use. Rogers began to address these issues with

720-412: A heated dispute concerning whether Level 3 would have to pay Comcast to bridge their respective networks, in an agreement known as peering . The disagreement continued as Netflix's current carrier, Cogent Communications , explicitly placed blame for Netflix bottlenecks on Comcast and several other ISPs. In February 2014, after rumors surfaced that Comcast and Netflix had reached an unspecified agreement,

800-455: A higher-quality reception." WQLN and WPBS, however, had shown great concern for Rogers' move, as these are the largest cities in the stations' respective coverage areas and much of their pledges come from Rogers viewers. In addition, both stations first heard of the discontinuance not through Rogers, but through their loyal viewers. On July 30, 2009, it was announced that Rogers would keep WPBS and WQLN on its systems, after both stations announced

880-556: A new 1.2TB data cap will be implemented for all of the remaining areas in the northeast by March 2021. However, it was postponed due to pressure from the Pennsylvanian attorney general due to concerns on how it would impact customers, especially for those working at home during the COVID-19 pandemic . In September 2007, a rumor emerged among tech blogs that Comcast was throttling or even blocking internet traffic transmitted via

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960-464: A new brand, companies were willing to pay a royalty on net sales of their products to rent the product of an established brand name. Armor All auto vacuums, Breyers yogurt, TGI Friday's frozen appetizers, and Lucite nail polish are only a handful of the products carrying well-known brand names which are made under license by companies unrelated to the companies who own the brand. A company may choose to license its brand(s) when they believe there

1040-565: A new version it began to deploy in December 2015. On May 6, 2016, Rogers was criticized when a nightly 2:00 a.m. reboot of NextBox set-top boxes caused viewers to miss the conclusion of an NHL playoff game between the Nashville Predators and San Jose Sharks , which had gone to triple overtime. The broadcast was, ironically, being carried by Rogers-owned network Sportsnet 360 , prompting The Globe and Mail to compare

1120-482: A part of the Digital Basic cable subscription) to gain lost profit from paying more expensive fees to retransmit programming content. Comcast's subsidiary, NBCUniversal , was one of several broadcasters party to American Broadcasting Cos. v. Aereo, Inc. , over the question of whether Aereo is a retransmitter (which would require it to pay retransmission fees). The case was decided on June 25, 2014, in favor of

1200-465: A planned project to develop its own IPTV -based television platform, and would instead license Comcast 's X1 platform. The new platform, Rogers Ignite TV, launched in August 2018, which includes a "cloud DVR", voice-enabled remote (specifically a Comcast-developed model which won a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award in 2017), and the ability to aggregate linear television and online video content in

1280-708: A private network, and a public network with the SSID "xfinitywifi". To conserve bandwidth, these hotspots are capped at 5 simultaneous users. Customers can opt out of providing Xfinity WiFi through either the Comcast website, or by installing a third-party router. Comcast has received criticism for this practice, with critics arguing that the company was abusing customer resources (including bandwidth and electricity) to provide services for other customers, as well as concerns regarding security, and liability for actions performed by users while connected to these home hotspots; in 2014,

1360-580: A proposed class action lawsuit was filed in California, citing violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and similar state laws for these reasons. Comcast defended the service by stating that the public Wi-Fi is firewalled from devices connected to the in-home network, was designed to have minimal bandwidth impact to "support robust usage", and that customers would not be liable for the actions of other users, as abusers can be traced by means of

1440-457: A remote control with voice recognition input. X1 was scheduled for nationwide availability by the end of 2013. Comcast has licensed the X1 platform as middleware to other providers, including Cox Cable (as "Cox Contour"), and Canadian providers Shaw (as "Shaw BlueCurve TV"), Rogers (as "Rogers Ignite TV") and Vidéotron (as Helix TV). Rogers (which had meanwhile acquired Shaw) announced

1520-424: A single chain known as Rogers Plus in 2007. After 23 years in business, Rogers Plus discontinued movie and game rentals in 2012, and the chain's remaining locations were re-tooled as Rogers stores for selling the company's services. In the beginning of 1995, Rogers along with several other cable companies, added a number of new cable channels under a negative option billing plan. Subscribers opting out of paying for

1600-572: A single interface. Rogers began to migrate existing digital cable customers to Ignite in October 2019. Rogers announced a deeper technology partnership with Comcast in April 2024, and began rebranding its Ignite products as "Rogers Xfinity " later that year. Rogers Cable currently serves communities in most of Canada, including most larger communities in Newfoundland and Labrador, nearly all of New Brunswick, selected areas of eastern Quebec near

1680-763: A takeover offer for Aurora Cable , a cable service provider in York Region, Ontario. On September 9, 2009, Rogers Cable filed a lawsuit in an attempt to prevent Shaw Communications from acquiring Mountain Cablevision of Hamilton, Ontario , on the basis that the two companies had agreed not to encroach on each other's respective territories (Rogers in Eastern Canada, Shaw in Western Canada), and speculated that Shaw would make other acquisitions in Eastern Canada after buying Mountain. Shaw argued that

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1760-503: A vulnerability that when exploited, falsely reported that all was well. The wireless motion sensors Xfinity Home used could also be easily jammed, and thus disabled, by radio frequencies. On April 6, 2017, Comcast launched Xfinity Mobile , a mobile virtual network operator ( MVNO ) on the Verizon mobile network . Xfinity Mobile provides prepaid (with users able to purchase data in 1 GB bundles) and monthly unlimited plans, with

1840-462: Is Catherine Avgiris. Xfinity went from US$ 23.7 billion in revenue in 2007 to $ 50.04 billion in 2016. In February 2010, Comcast began to re-brand its consumer triple play service offerings under the name Xfinity; Comcast Digital Cable was renamed "Xfinity TV", Comcast Digital Voice became "Xfinity Voice", and Comcast High-Speed Internet became "Xfinity Internet". The re-branding and an associated promotional campaign were scheduled to coincide with

1920-706: Is a premier sponsor of the NASCAR Cup Series . They sponsored NASCAR Cup Series driver Carl Edwards in 2016 at Richmond Raceway . Edwards won the race with a bump and run on teammate Kyle Busch . They also have sponsored both NASCAR Cup Series drivers Tyler Reddick and Bubba Wallace on 23XI Racing promoting Xfinity Mobile and Xfinity 10G, and since 2020, has sponsored the Xfinity 500 . Xfinity and its parent company, Comcast, were sued in August 2016 in King County Superior Court by

2000-491: Is an American telecommunications business segment and division of the Comcast Corporation . It is used to market consumer cable television , internet , telephone , and wireless services provided by the company. The brand was first introduced in 2010; prior to that, these services were marketed primarily under the Comcast name. As of 2023 its CEO is Dave Watson, its chairman is Brian L. Roberts , and its CFO

2080-437: Is strong consumer acceptance for brand extensions or products. Apart from benefits to licensors, there are benefits to licensees as well. Licensees lease the rights to a brand for incorporation into their merchandise , but do not share ownership in it. Having access to major national and global brands, and the logos and trademarks associated with those brands, gives the licensee significant benefits. The most important of these

2160-739: Is the largest shareholder (41.4%) in CPAC , a national public affairs and politics cable channel based in Ottawa, that consists of both an English- and a French-language feed. CPAC's main programming consists of live and delayed coverage of the House of Commons and the Senate. Rogers Cable previously operated a chain of video rental stores known as Rogers Plus; it launched as Rogers Video in 1988, after which it grew by acquiring smaller chains. The Rogers Video chain and Rogers Wireless retail stores were merged into

2240-415: Is the marketing power the brand brings to the licensee's products. When brand managers enter or extend into new product categories via licensing they create an opportunity for a licensee to grow their company. Below is an example of the licensed product process steps: Licensees expect that the license will provide them with sales growth. This sales growth may be in the form of growth within existing market or

2320-418: The 2010 Winter Olympics . The rebranding was characterized by the media as an effort to sidestep the negativity of the Comcast brand. Time considered Xfinity to be among the worst corporate renamings of all time, asking "Will the name change work? Probably not, but at least it'll sound a bit edgier when you're put on hold...with Xfinity." Comcast is the largest provider of cable internet access in

2400-564: The BitTorrent protocol . Comcast vehemently denied the accusations of blocking traffic, stating that "Comcast 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". After more widespread confirmation that Comcast was throttling BitTorrent traffic, Comcast said it occasionally delayed BitTorrent traffic in order to speed up other kinds of data, but declined to go into specifics. Following

2480-596: The 1930s and 1940s resulted in an explosion of toys, books, and consumer products with the lovable rodent's likeness on them, none of which were manufactured by the Walt Disney Company. McDonald's play food, Burger King T-shirts and even ghastly Good Humor Halloween costumes became commonplace. Brand extensions later made the brand licensing marketplace much more lucrative, as companies realized they could make real dollars renting out their equity to manufacturers. Instead of spending untold millions to create

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2560-436: The 3D format. In addition to residential consumers, Comcast also serves businesses as customers, targeting small businesses with fewer than 20 employees and mid-sized businesses of 20–500 employees. In 2009, Minneapolis–Saint Paul became the first city in which Comcast Business Class offered 100 Mbit/s Internet service, which includes Microsoft Communication Services. Comcast Business Class Internet service does not have

2640-560: The FCC's designation of Comcast Digital Voice as an information service exempted it from telecommunications service regulations on traditional landline. Comcast also said that because Comcast Voice was a separate service, it was unfair to directly compare the data for Comcast Voice with the data for other VoIP services. Because telephone services over VoIP are not automatically tied to a physical address, Xfinity Voice utilizes E911 to help 911 emergency service operators to automatically locate

2720-440: The FCC's then current regulatory policy. The court suggested instead of its current framework, the FCC move to a common carrier structure to justify its enforcement. As of February 2014, the FCC has announced a new justification, but avoided the more extensive regulation required by the common carrier framework. In 2010, Netflix signed an agreement with Level 3 Communications to carry its data. Shortly after, Level 3 entered

2800-646: The Irish state broadcaster ( RTÉ ) and state telecoms company ( Eircom ); these cable companies are now part of the UPC Ireland network. In 1981, Rogers entered the U.S. cable market, obtaining franchises in Orange County, California; Minneapolis; and Portland, Oregon, and purchased the cable system in San Antonio. These assets were acquired by Paragon Cable in 1989 for over US$ 1 billion; Paragon in turn

2880-579: The Korean animation industry until the 1970s, it was not until 1983 when Dooly the Little Dinosaur (아기 공룡 둘리) appeared in Bomulsum—a monthly magazine for kids—and changed the Korean character market. In 1987, Dooly the Little Dinosaur first aired as a six-part TV show, with another seven parts airing in 1988. In 1995, Kim Soo-jung , its creator, established a company named 'Dooly World' and went into

2960-844: The Mountain Cablevision business to Rogers. In 2010, a corporate reorganization resulted in Rogers Cable being dissolved as a distinct legal entity, and its operations absorbed into Rogers Communications Partnership, a general partnership jointly held by Rogers Communications and its subsidiary Fido Solutions . In October 2015, Rogers announced that it would begin to offer 4K -compatible set-top boxes, beginning in Toronto and expanding to its other markets in 2016. Telecasts of 4K sporting events from Sportsnet and TSN began to be carried on these set-top boxes in January 2016. In December 2016, Rogers announced that it had scrapped

3040-608: The National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau (BBB) ruled that Comcast's marketing of its broadband service as the "Xfinity 10G Network" was misleading, as " 10G " could be insinuated as referring to 10 gigabit service. This service is not available to all households as it requires installation of a fiber optic local loop , as DOCSIS isn't capable of 10 gigabit end-user speeds. In January 2024, Comcast agreed to stop using

3120-530: The New Brunswick border (including Carleton-sur-Mer ), Ontario (including nearly all of the Toronto area as well as the areas of Ottawa , London , Kitchener-Waterloo , York Region , Barrie , and parts of Hamilton ), parts of Manitoba (including Winnipeg ), parts of Saskatchewan (particularly in Moose Jaw , Prince Albert , Saskatoon , and Swift Current ), Alberta , and British Columbia . Over

3200-473: The State of Washington (AG Ferguson, Washington's Attorney General) for 100 million dollars over claims that Comcast violated the state's Consumer Protection Act 445,000 times over its Service Protection Plan by overly charging for call service fees, knowingly using improper credit screening practices, and by lying about the costs of its Service Protection Plan to 49,660 customers on support calls. The amount that

3280-610: The Time Warner Cable merger, Comcast vice president David Cohen told reporters that the internet essentials program will be extended indefinitely. At the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show, Comcast unveiled a new software platform for its Arris 1682G and Cisco 3941T/3939 modems, which would offer a redesigned configuration interface, support for remote setup and management via an Xfinity mobile app, and enabling integration of supported smart home devices with other Xfinity platforms such as Xfinity TV. The new platform launched under

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3360-525: The United States, servicing 40% of the market in 2011. As of July 26, 2018, Comcast has 26.5 million high-speed internet customers. Comcast began offering internet services in late 1996, when it helped found the @Home Network , which sold internet service through Comcast's cable lines. The agreement continued after @Home's merger with Excite . When the combined company Excite@Home filed for bankruptcy in 2002, Comcast moved their roughly 950,000 internet customers completely onto their own network. Along with

3440-550: The Xfinity account they used to sign into the network. The lawsuit was taken to arbitration. In the wake of Hurricane Irma , all Xfinity WiFi hotspots in Florida were opened to non-Comcast subscribers. Initially, Comcast had a policy of terminating broadband customers who use "excessive bandwidth", a term the company refused to define in its terms of service, which once said only that a customer's use should not "represent (in

3520-495: The agreement violated unfair competition laws. The suit was quickly thrown out by the Ontario Superior Court, arguing that the non-compete agreement limited competition, and that Rogers' claims of future harm were "speculative in the extreme". The sale would eventually go through later that year. In January 2013, as part of a larger exchange of assets between the two companies, Shaw pulled out of Hamilton and sold

3600-458: The announcement of an official investigation by the FCC, Comcast voluntarily ended the traffic discrimination. The FCC investigation concluded that Comcast's throttling policies were illegal. However, after filing a lawsuit in September 2008, Comcast overturned the illegality of its network management in 2010, as the court ruled that the FCC lacked the authority to enforce net neutrality under

3680-565: The brand xFi in May 2017. Comcast also unveiled the xFi Advanced Gateway, a new router designed to facilitate faster Wi-Fi speeds, including support for 802.11ac Wave 2, as well as internal support for Bluetooth Low Energy , Thread , and Zigbee for finer integration with Internet of things devices, and support for an accompanying line of Wi-Fi extenders (manufactured by Plume). In December 2022, Comcast announced that it had trialed symmetric, 10-gigabit service using DOCSIS 4.0; this service

3760-406: The broadcasters in a 6–3 decision. Comcast has a home security and home automation service known as Xfinity Home in some of its service areas. 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, Xfinity Home had

3840-473: The character design industry. The following year, the animated movie ' Dooly the Little Dinosaur ' was released. In the 30 years since Dooly the Little Dinosaur launched, its related market generated 2–3 billion won per year (about 1.7–2.7 million dollars as of July 2018). This paved the way for the character market in Korea. Xfinity Comcast Cable Communications, LLC , doing business as Xfinity ,

3920-535: The companies confirmed that Netflix was paying Comcast to connect to its network. The details of the agreement are not public, and speculation disagrees about whether the agreement is a precedent against net neutrality , or a continuation of normal peering agreements. Xfinity Voice (formerly Comcast Digital Voice ) is a Voice Over IP cable telephony service that was launched in 2005 in some markets, and to all of Comcast's markets in 2006. Comcast's older service, Comcast Digital Phone, continued to offer service for

4000-531: The company stated that "more than 99 percent of our customers do not come close to using a terabyte." The decision to raise the cap came following implication of increased scrutiny surrounding them by the FCC: in its approval of Charter Communications ' purchase of Time Warner Cable , the Commission stipulated that Charter must not implement caps. As previously, a $ 10 overage fee is charged for every 50 GB above

4080-514: The company. Entered the Province through an asset exchange with Shaw Communications , which had previously acquired Fundy Communications . Operates in almost every major community, with the exceptions of Sackville and Port Elgin, which are served by EastLink . Entered the Province by acquiring Cable Atlantic . Large acquisitions: cable operations of Famous Players (Canadian Cablesystems) and Maclean-Hunter . Through Rogers Cable, Rogers

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4160-714: The customers unknowingly paid for the plan from 2011 to 2015 was 71 million dollars. However, when asked for recorded customer service calls discussing the Service Protection Plan, Comcast said that it was "too burdensome". Eventually it gave 4,500 samples of the requested calls, but was accused of deleting many other calls by Washington. In response, Comcast said that it was "not under any obligation to preserve them" and that it deleted customer service calls routinely. It accused Washington of only "listening to 150 calls when we gave 4,500 of them", and said that "customers receive an email confirmation when they sign up for

4240-410: The first quarterly gain in customers since their peak occurred in the fourth quarter of 2013. As of the end of 2013, Comcast had a total of 21.7 million cable customers. The average cost of Comcast's Digital Basic cable subscription had increased 72% from 2003 to 2012. In the fourth quarter of 2015, Comcast got 89,000 new video subscribers. This was their highest gain since 2007. Comcast also charges

4320-621: The fragrance and beauty licenses for Yves Saint Laurent , Giorgio Armani , Valentino , Prada , Ralph Lauren , and more. Han Chang-Wan, a professor at Sejong University , published the history of animation character design in Korea at the Character Licensing Fair 2016. This study became the first to have rabbit and turtle illustrations as Korean animated characters. This was revealed in The Independent newspaper. With American and Japanese characters dominating

4400-406: The high-profile blackouts. Comcast has had ten year agreements with CBS Disney , and Fox Broadcasting Company for distributing and reproducing content. The financial details of the deals are not known. Due to retransmission fees becoming more expensive every year, broadcasters pay more expensive substantial fees for retransmitting broadcast television . Comcast instated Broadcast TV Fee (as

4480-473: The incident to the Heidi game . A Rogers spokesperson apologized for the incident and stated that they were investigating the issue, as the reboot was not supposed to occur while watching live programming. More than 400,000 television service subscribers. Brand licensing Brand licensing means renting or leasing of an intangible asset . It is a process of creating and managing contracts between

4560-739: The initial launch of the Solutions Provider Program, Comcast enlisted three national master representatives— Telarus , based in Salt Lake City, Utah ; Intelisys, based in Petaluma, California ; and Telecom Brokerage Inc (TBI), based in Chicago . Sub-agent sales partners must work with one of these three partners in the early stages of the program. Xfinity currently sponsors the NASCAR Xfinity Series and

4640-513: The internet using VoIP , but uses a private network instead of a public IP address , which allows Comcast to prioritize voice data during heavy traffic. In technical terms, on Comcast's Hybrid Fiber Coaxial network, calls are placed into individual Unsolicited Grant Service flows, based on DOCSIS 1.1 Quality of service standards. For the customer, this has the benefit of preventing network congestion from interfering with call quality. Other, non-Comcast VoIP services on Comcast's network must use

4720-403: The latter throttled after 20 GB of use. The service is sold exclusively to Comcast internet subscribers, and includes access to Xfinity WiFi. Analysts perceived Xfinity Mobile as being a response to AT&T's acquisition of DirecTV , which added the national satellite provider alongside its existing wireline and wireless services, and an increased push towards mobile television . In

4800-592: The leader was Disney Consumer Products with $ 53 billion in retail sales of licensed merchandise, followed by Meredith Corp. with $ 23.2 Billion and PVH with $ 18 Billion. According to the International Licensing Industry Merchandisers' Association (LIMA), global licensed merchandise sales was $ 272.2 billion in 2016, versus $ 262.2 billion in 2015. In the fashion industry, branded perfumes and cosmetics are often produced under license. For example, L'Oreal Group holds

4880-577: The limit, and customers can purchase an add-on for "unlimited" data, but its price was increased to $ 50. In October 2016, Comcast announced that bandwidth thresholds would be implemented in the majority of its markets (outside of New York and the northeast) beginning November 1, 2016. The data usage plan does not currently apply to the Gigabit Pro tier of service, Business Internet customers, customers on Bulk Internet agreements, and customers with Prepaid Internet. On November 23, 2020, Comcast announced

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4960-417: The lower priority public IP addresses. This separation of traffic into separate flows, or Smart pipe , has been criticised as a violation of net neutrality , whereby all data traffic should be treated equally— dumb pipe . The practice was questioned by the FCC in 2009. In their response, Comcast stated that services that use telecommunications are not necessarily telecommunications services , and said that

5040-654: The money paid to a licensor by the licensee for the right to use the licensed property. It is calculated by multiplying the Royalty Rate by the Net Sales. The main international professional association for brand licensing is the Licensing Industry Merchandiser's Association , which sponsors the annual Licensing International Expo. Each Year, License! Global magazine publishes an annual list of "The Top 150 Global Licensors". For 2017,

5120-409: The monthly limit. If a user exceeded the cap three times within six months, the customer's residential services may have been terminated for one year. A spokesperson stated that this policy had been in place for some time, but was the first time Comcast has announced a specific usage limit. As the cap provoked a strongly negative reaction from some, Comcast decided to modify its policy in 2012. Under

5200-754: The new channels stood to lose much of their existing specialty channel programming. The participating cable companies were hit by both regulatory and public opinion backlash and ultimately were forced to split the negative-option channels into two separately purchasable blocks, a move which Rogers had initially opposed as "not technologically feasible". In July 2009, Rogers Cable announced that on August 18, 2009, they would be replacing PBS affiliates WQLN of Erie, Pennsylvania and WPBS-TV of Watertown, New York on its London and Ottawa systems, respectively, with Detroit, Michigan 's PBS station, WTVS . A representative for Rogers said that they were replacing WQLN and WPBS with WTVS, because viewers wanted "a feed that has

5280-568: The new system, the cap was replaced with a data threshold and increased to 300GB in some markets, and consumers who exceed this threshold are charged $ 10 for every 50 GB above the limit. Customers could purchase a $ 30 add-on for "unlimited" data. In a leaked memo, Comcast employees were instructed to state that the policy is for "Fairness and providing a more flexible policy to our customers", and not for controlling network congestion. On April 27, 2016, Comcast announced that it would raise its data threshold in trial markets to 1 TB by June 2016;

5360-466: The opportunity to enter a new market. To achieve this, licensees expect that the brand they are licensing has significant brand preference, that it will open doors and ultimately help them meet or exceed their business objectives. The licensing contract forces the licensee to achieve certain sales targets and royalties; therefore, the goal of the licensee is to quickly meet their business objectives, thereby achieving their contract obligations. Royalties are

5440-471: The owner of a brand and a company or individual who wants to use the brand in association with a product, for an agreed period of time, within an agreed territory. Licensing is used by brand owners to extend a trademark or character onto products of a completely different nature. Examples of intangible assets include a song (" Over the Rainbow "), a character ( Donald Duck ), a name ( David Beckham ), or

5520-591: The price of internet subscriptions, Comcast charges users an additional $ 14.00/month to rent a cable modem . This fee has been seen by some as unfair, but is waived for customers who buy their own modems. Comcast charges $ 20 for internet installation, but the fee is waived for customers who opt to install themselves. In 2011, Comcast launched its "Internet Essentials" program, which offers low-cost internet service to families with children who qualify for free or reduced price school lunches. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) required this budget service as

5600-559: The protection plan". The lawsuit lasted until June 2019, when a King County court judge, Judge Timothy Bradshaw, ruled in favor of Washington State and against Comcast, ordering Comcast to pay 9.1 million dollars in penalties in addition to providing restitution to customers within 60 days. 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

5680-492: The rest of her career, Potter would continue to oversee merchandising and licensing opportunities for her characters, with Peter depicted in a multitude of spinoff merchandise such as porcelain figurines, painting books and dishes. Trademark licensing also has a rich history in American business, largely beginning with the rise of mass entertainment such as the movies, comics and later television. Mickey Mouse 's popularity in

5760-530: The same accounts were infiltrated without their authorization to buy new cell phones from Comcast's website. They had done this by using information from the customer's already established internet and cable accounts. The case was ruled to be solved in arbitration in accordance with the subscriber agreement she had agreed to. In 2023, Comcast began to market all Xfinity broadband services as "the Xfinity 10G Network", in relation to its recent introduction of 10-gigabit fiber service for business customers. In 2024,

5840-495: The sole judgment of Comcast) an overly large burden on the network". Company responses to press inquiries suggested a limit of several hundred gigabytes per month. In September 2007, Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas said the company defined "excessive use" as the equivalent of 30,000 songs, 250,000 pictures or 13 million emails in a month. Comcast introduced a 250 GB monthly bandwidth cap to its broadband service on October 1, 2008, combining both upload and download towards

5920-589: The source of the 911 call. Voice calls are delivered as a digital stream over the Comcast network, signal is converted to analog plain old telephone service lines at the cable modem, which outputs on standard physical analog style RJ-11 ports. This is separate from their former offering of "Comcast Digital Phone" which is not VoIP. The Digital Phone terms of service is still up which clearly defined this service as Circuit Switched. Comcast's cable television customers peaked in 2007, with about 24.8 million customers. Comcast had lost customers every year since. However,

6000-615: The then City of North York, Oshawa/Whitby, London, Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, Brantford, and Newmarket, and joined the CCL properties with his cable interests. In 1980, Rogers purchased Premier Cable, which controlled the system in Vancouver, parts of Ontario, and had investments in Irish cable companies in Dublin , Galway and Waterford . In 1986 Rogers sold their shares of Irish companies to

6080-423: The third quarter of 2018, Xfinity Mobile surpassed 1 million subscribers. On May 18, 2020, Xfinity Mobile announced plans with 5G data. Comcast ran a 3DTV channel known as Xfinity 3D from February 20, 2011 until December 16, 2014, on Xfinity cable systems. The channel mainly featured NBC Sports and Universal Pictures content in the format, along with content from other studios and demonstration films in

6160-456: The world's first licensed character was a soft toy of Peter Rabbit , a fictional character created by Beatrix Potter and patented in 1903, to be sold alongside the first public edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit . Merchandise of Peter and other Potter characters have been sold at Harrods department store in London since at least 1910 when the range first appeared in their catalogues. For

6240-593: The years, and at various times, Rogers has owned all or part of various cable operators serving areas across Canada, including Vancouver , Victoria , Calgary , and Northern Ontario . All of the systems in Western Canada were traded to Shaw Communications in late 2000, in exchange for that company's assets in Ontario and New Brunswick, and many of the others were sold to Cogeco . On April 3, 2023, Rogers acquired Shaw, adding its Western Canada portfolio back to

6320-858: Was acquired by Time Warner Cable several years later. Rogers continued to buy other operators; the largest such acquisition came with Rogers' 1994 acquisition of Maclean-Hunter , at that time also among the largest cable operators. Through its acquisition of Maclean-Hunter, Rogers has also briefly owned cable systems in the United States, which it promptly sold to Comcast in 1994. In March 2000, Rogers agreed to swap systems with Shaw Communications , exchanging its systems in British Columbia for Shaw systems in Quebec and Ontario. The deals gave Rogers and Shaw more consistent service footprints in Eastern and Western Canada respectively. In 2008, Rogers announced

6400-591: Was deployed for selected Gigabit Pro fiber business customers in June 2023. Comcast operates a network of public Wi-Fi hotspots for Xfinity internet subscribers known as Xfinity WiFi, which consists of a mixture of hotspots installed in public locations and businesses, and those generated by supported Xfinity home gateways on an opt-out basis. Users on the "Performance" tier or higher receive unlimited usage of these hotspots after signing in with their Xfinity Account. By default, all dual-band Xfinity home gateways operate both

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