Comcast Rebranding - Welcome to XFINITY!!!

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user098123

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Dunno if anyone has heard about this, but this has to be the DUMBEST thing I have seen in a LONG LONG time.

In case you don't know, Comcast is being renamed as XFINITY. Yes, XFINITY. Apparently they feel we still are a part of the era where adding X to everything makes it infinitely cooler (pun intended..).

"Where does the name XFINITY come from?

XFINITY

stands for infinite content choices (the "infinity") and cross-platform

features (that's the "X"). The idea behind XFINITY stems from an

initiative called "Project Infinity." We announced this initiative at

the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2008 and introduced Project

Infinity for the first time. Project Infinity is about offering our

customers exponentially more content choices and that means we'll

continually offer more Video On Demand, more HD, more channels, and

more online video.

When we first announced Project Infinity in 2008, we had 10,000

Video On Demand choices. This year, we'll have 20,000 choices and that

number will continue to increase significantly over time. At the same

time, we began to roll out faster Internet speeds with DOCSIS 3.0

technology that delivers some of the fastest Internet speeds

available. More recently, we added thousands of TV and movie choices

for consumers to watch online at fancastxfinitytv.com and are adding

100+ HD channels and 5,000 HD choices On Demand. As these products

evolved, and as new cross-platform features were being introduced, we

wanted a new, more unified product name for these new products as we

roll them out across the country. XFINITY is that name. "

http://www.xfinity.com/welcome/

 
It is also worth noting that it is widely speculated the reason for the rebranding is to improve the "Comcast" image, which has been very poor lately. However, this rebranding does nothing to fix the inherent problems of comcast, and is just a bandage over the problems. So, instead of fixing what is wrong with their service they decided to just change their name and hope people didn't make the connection.
 
They are also charging every comcast subscriber $3 per service to pay for their rebranding. Why the fuck do I have to pay for them to change their damn name? If you can't tell I'm a little bitter.
 
I shall recount to you the tale of Chief Comes-in-White-Van.

Many moons ago, when the sunspots did flare and beaver ran plenty plentiful in the upstairs bathrooms, did the great Comcast wane. The children cried out to the great broadband god, "reconnect us oh mighty provider!" But still the "disconnect your router" ceremony did the shadow representatives reply.

A fortnight passed, an on the 9am to 6pm approximate appointment hours, a visitor appeared 'round the alley in back. Was great Spirit warrior Chief Comes-in-White-Van! He brought to the people a great many gifts and treasures, such as 50' of ethernet cord, the smells of strange pipeweed, and cable-mans crack. Lo did he venture into the dark basement to do battle with the crusty router. The walls shook, the ceiling fell down, but finally the foe lay defeated. Shaken, Great Warrior Cheif retreated to his van to engage another vision from pipeweed. The townspeople rummaged round the ruins of their home, gaping at the damage the battle had wrought. "Why was the ceiling in need of removal?" "Will Great Cheif return to fix this shit?"

But Cheif Comes-in-White-Van had vanished, dissapeared into the service representative spirit world. Some nights when the gaps between our world and his run thin, you may catch the odor of his peace pipe, or hear like distant thunder the hacking of phlem.
 
I wish comcast was available where I live :(

With comcast I got 12 months of cable internet for $19.99 a month. My connection was fast as shit too. I went to, i think it was speakeasy.net, and I was downloading about 12 megabit/sec. With my at&t dsl I get like 1/20th of that :(
 
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