That's interesting, thanks for that info, Mike. Jason has a good point
in that a lot of the "reporting" on this topic so far has been
ill-informed, and I think it's important to understand the truth.
Re Rodney and Randy's point about this being blown out of proportion,
the thing I'm most concerned about is not the service itself, which is
interesting, and has the capability to be a good utilization of
resources (as in, a cheap way to provide a beneficial service).
My concerns are that apparently customers are not informed about the
thing before it gets enabled, and the issue of wifi density that was
raised by several people here. If you have an apartment building for
example, where a significant majority of the tenants are Comcast
customers (cuz in 'murica we loves us some monopolies) I see a lot of
strong xfinity signals stomping on an already crowded 2.4 G spectrum.
So just to be clear, I'm not being critical at this point, I'm simply
interested in separating the facts from the hype.
Doug
On 12/11/14 12:42 PM, Mike wrote:
Doug,
I use my own router at home, so I opted out, and I can use the
service without issue.
Mike
On Dec 11, 2014, at 2:53 PM, Doug Barton <do...@dougbarton.us> wrote:
On 12/11/14 10:16 AM, Livingood, Jason wrote:
On 12/11/14, 1:06 PM, "Kain, Rebecca (.)" <bka...@ford.com> wrote:
No one who has Comcast, who I've forward this to, knew about this (all US
customers). Maybe you can send here the notification Comcast sent out,
to your customers.
I emailed you off-list. I am happy to investigate individual cases. The
rollout has been happening since probably 2009 or 2010.
Jason,
While that offer is noble, and appreciated, as are your other responses on this
thread; personally I would be interested to hear more about how customers were
notified. Was there a collateral piece included in their bill? Were they
e-mailed?
And are we correct in assuming that this is strictly opt-out? And is the report
that if you opt out with your account that you are not then able to access the
service elsewhere correct?
Completely aside from the fact that other services have done something similar,
I regard all of this as quite troubling, as it seems others here do as well.
Doug
