This actually made news at the Clarion-Ledger:
Service interruptions for Comcast customers caused headaches around the region Thursday.
Residents around the Jackson metro area have reported service outages for both internet and cable beginning as early as Thursday afternoon.Alex Horwitz, Comcast's vice president of communications for the Big South region, said via email that there was a fiber cut earlier in the day that impacted services in both Mississippi and the greater Memphis metro area.
A 15-minute Comcast outage is actual news? Seriously?Horwitz said services were restored within 15 minutes.
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My office is at the corner of Lakeland Drive and Ridgewood Road, not exactly the boondocks. If this is news then the CL needs to station a reporter in my office. Comcast service (for my VOIP) telephones go down regularly.
What's funny is the CL is still around,he'll I thought it went belly up years ago.
Meanwhile: There's been at least a twenty year interruption in the news from The Clarion Ledger.
Service? Comcast provides only the idea of service.... outages of internet access & telephone services cause problems at my real estate office too often... Today: nothing for an hour or longer....Hello C-Spire here I come!
In a digital age when school entertainment and work is all virtual for hundreds of thousands of folks yes an hour or more of downtime is newsworthy.
Based on queries on nextdoor and community based fb groups the cause was news.
@11:02. The CL did go belly up, when Gannett took over...
Clarion-Ledger Parent Co. Gannett Slashing News Staffs
Story by R.L. Nave
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
....Editor John Awtry writes: "Full disclosure: realigning will come with some pain. In keeping with the realities of a fragmented media landscape, the trade-off is that there will be fewer management positions, fewer production-related roles, and that will make us a little smaller overall. But this is about more than contracting...
2019
Two Mississippi newspapers will soon have new owners as Gannett Co. — publishers of The Clarion Ledger newspaper in Jackson and the Hattiesburg American newspaper — announced the company will be sold to New Media Investment Group.
New Media Investment Group Inc. (NYSE: NEWM) and Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) announced Monday afternoon that New Media and Gannett have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which New Media will acquire Gannett for a combination of cash and stock.
Wall Street—a constant thorn in the side of the news industry because investors value quarter over quarter growth more the quality of a company's product, such as high-impact journalism—rewarded the announcement by giving Gannett's per-share stock price a $.40 boost, to $34.27.
My office is on Lakeland Drive as well and we regularly have Comcast outages. Hardly a week goes by without some sort of outage with our phone and/or internet. Comcast service is like our service they provide...iffy at best. I do not recommend them for business service.
I've had cable and internet from Comcast for a long time. No problems or issues aside from an occasional outage in a blue moon that doesn't last long.
KF,
My experience as well. Client near Highland Village. Good Comcast service with only the occasional outage of short duration.
On the other hand I have other clients with terrible Comcast service. I think it just depends upon where your service location happens to be.
AT&T doesn't have anything to crow about as well.
My AT&T DSL goes off over 100 times a month, every month. You don't see any news items about that.
@9:46
You still use DSL? It must be for CC transactions only? Otherwise, DSL is horrendously slow.
I was down for about an hour and a half yesterday. My kids were annoyed by it more than I was, because cellular service is crappy in my area.
Why would someone still have comcast with the fiber options from other companies that are out there?
My speed is 200. Has fit my needs pretty well.
If you think all dsl is slow, you don't know what you're talking about. My att dsl has been down less than 5 times in 20 years.
I have Comcast (A)DSL with 750 down and 50 up. Slow? No, your brain is slow.
@10:47 here. Are we all talking about the same thing regarding DSL? Is there some technological advances that I missed out on regarding DSL? I know for basic browsing, DSL is more than sufficient. However for power home use, especially with kids who stream and game, I would think DSL would be woefully slow.
I'm fully aware that fiber is faster than cable and DSL. Unfortunately fiber is not available in my neck of the woods, otherwise I would get it. My friends with CSpire fiber rave about it.
15 minutes. Are your kidding. My phone, TV, and internet were out off and on for over 3 hours. What a joke.
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