Comcast to Provide Free Xfinity WiFi at Pioneer Court during Chicago Ideas Week… Chicago Ideas Week (CIW) is excited to announce local design consultancy firm PORT Urbanism as the 2015 CIW Artist-in-Residence. Co-Founders Christopher Marcinkoski and Andrew Moddrell’s “Thick City Pavilion,” to be located at 401 N. Michigan Ave., will celebrate Chicago’s rich and layered […]
Comcast Bringing more and more WiFi to Chicago; Lights up The 606, Goose Island
Number of Xfinity WiFi hot spots nears 900,000 in Chicago Region, surpasses 10 million nationwide… Comcast announced today that the company has made WiFi available along The 606, the elevated new 2.7-mile-long park that connects several Chicago neighborhoods, as well Goose Island, a rapidly redeveloping economic engine on the city’s northwest side. “The 606 not […]
Comcast Business Expands Fiber Optic Network in Elgin and South Elgin to Service Growing Business and Industrial Base
Fiber expansion increases access to Ethernet, Internet, Voice and Cloud Services, helps accelerate growth of existing area businesses and attract new ones… Number of Xfinity WiFi hot spots passes 7,000 in Elgin, South Elgin… Comcast announced today that the company has added nearly two miles of fiber optic network in Elgin, IL, near Interstate 90 […]
Comcast to offer multi-gig Residential Internet Speeds in Champaign-Urbana, along with Hundreds of WiFi hot spots downtown and near U of I
Champaign-Urbana among first Midwest markets to get new Gigabit Pro 2Gbps Internet service; Xfinity WiFi network reaches more than 12,500 hot spots in Champaign County… Comcast announced plans to offer a new 2 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) broadband Internet service called “Gigabit Pro” to residential customers in Champaign-Urbana and other locations in the company’s Greater Chicago Region, […]
Comcast Business Lights its 250th Mile of Fiber in the Rockford Area
Through fiber and array of other local initiatives, Comcast is helping Rockford prepare for the future… Comcast Business joined Winnebago County representatives; Rockford Public Schools Superintendent, Dr. Ehren Jarrett; Rockford Career College (RCC) director of Education, Tom Leu, and director of Information Technology, George Thompson; Mike Nicholas, Rockford Area Economic Development Council president and CEO; and […]