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"In order to offer services similar to those of its competitors – namely companies such as AT&T and Verizon with cellular infrastructure that enabled them deploy public facing Wi-Fi hotspots – Comcast decided that it could use its network of millions of customer routers to build a similar network of Wi-Fi hotspots without needing cell towers. So in recent years, Comcast began leasing dual-band routers capable of broadcasting separate wireless networks to its customers: one for home networks and a second, public-facing network available for anyone with Comcast-Xfinity login credentials. According to the suit, Comcast aims to have 8 million such hotspots available by the end of 2014.
In fact, you live in an area dominated by Comcast and you look at the wireless networks in range of your computer’s receiver, you will almost certainly notice a wireless network named “xfinitywifi.”
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