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Comcast adds more markets across the country

April 23, 2012Tess Nacelewicz

PHILADELPHIA—March was an active month for Comcast as it launched its new home automation/home security service in a number of additional major markets across the country. Xfinity Home is now being offered in Atlanta, the San Francisco Bay area and parts of Connecticut and Vermont.Comcast also launched Xfinity Home in Utah, in the backyard of big summer-model security companies such as Vivint.But Comcast, which is based here, believes it will have no problems competing in that market, according...

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Comcast's Xfinity gets new name and features

February 29, 2012Tess Nacelewicz

PHILADELPHIA—Comcast has renamed its home security/home automation service, is about to add a new energy-management feature and has expanded the service to yet another market: Seattle.Comcast's Xfinity Home Security service is now being called Xfinity Home to better reflect the fact that the service offers home automation in addition to security, the telecom announced Tuesday.Jamila Patton, senior manager of corporate communications for Comcast, told Security Systems News that because “the...

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Comcast ahead of curve in security space

January 4, 2012Tess Nacelewicz

PHILADELPHIA—Many telecoms decided that 2011 was the year to launch a home security/home automation offering—Verizon, Time Warner Cable, Frontier Communications, AT&T and Cox Communications among them.But Comcast, which is based here, was ahead of the curve, launching Xfinity Home Security in Houston in June 2010. The company, with millions of customers nationwide, has so far made the product available in other major markets around the country, including Greater Philadelphia; Indianapolis;...

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