Comcast Opens Free Xfinity WiFi Hotspot Network to Support Northern California During Storms - Yahoo Finance

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Livermore, Calif. --News Direct-- Comcast California

Livermore, Calif., January 13, 2023 — To assistance residents and exigency unit enactment connected during the caller historical rainstorms, Comcast’s web of astir 147,000 nationalist Xfinity WiFi hotspots passim Northern and Central California are present disposable and escaped for anyone to use, including non-Xfinity customers.

How to Get Connected

For a representation of nationalist Xfinity WiFi hotspots, which are located some indoors and outdoors successful places specified arsenic buying districts, parks, and businesses, sojourn Xfinity.com/wifi.

When a hotspot is wrong range, prime the “xfinitywifi” web connected a device’s database of disposable networks and motorboat a browser. Sign-in options volition look for some Xfinity customers and non-customers.

Xfinity Internet customers tin motion successful with their relationship credentials and they volition beryllium automatically connected to Xfinity WiFi hotspots successful their scope successful the future. Alternatively, they tin download the Xfinity WiFi Hotspots app and motion successful with their relationship credentials.

Non-Xfinity Internet subscribers request to look for the “Get Connected” conception and hold to the Terms and Conditions to beryllium connected. Non-customers volition beryllium capable to renew their complimentary sessions each 2 hours.

**Please enactment that if a idiosyncratic does not spot the “Accept and Connect” button, the hotspot helium oregon she is trying to link to is successful an Xfinity customer’s location and is not unfastened to the public.

There are besides a fewer simple, casual things customers tin bash present to hole and enactment connected, adjacent successful atrocious weather. They tin commencement by downloading Comcast’s free mobile apps:

Xfinity My Account — Get updates connected outages and study work interruptions.
Xfinity Stream — View unrecorded TV, get upwind updates, and download shows and movies beforehand to ticker offline successful lawsuit you suffer power.
Xfinity WiFi Hotspots — Xfinity Internet customers tin entree millions of Xfinity WiFi hotspots disposable nationwide.

Comcast whitethorn besides nonstop text alerts to customers with accusation astir work interruptions oregon with tips for restoring their services. Customers tin log successful to the Xfinity App to marque definite their mobile telephone numbers are added.

Here are a fewer further adjuvant tips and information precautions:

Customers should plug TV’s, modems, and cablegram boxes into a surge protector to support them from harm successful lawsuit of lightning oregon a abrupt powerfulness outage.
Emergency absorption procedures dictate that energy indispensable beryllium restored archetypal and Comcast indispensable person clearance that it is harmless for our crews to statesman immoderate restoration work. Should customers acquisition a nonaccomplishment of work owed to a powerfulness outage, section powerfulness indispensable archetypal beryllium restored earlier Xfinity video, telephone oregon net services tin statesman moving again.
If customers person energy but not Xfinity services, Comcast recommends restarting oregon resetting devices, including wireless gateways, modems, routers, and cablegram boxes.
In immoderate cases, customers whitethorn person powerfulness backmost but not their Xfinity services due to the fact that commercialized powerfulness has not been restored to our web successful that area.
Customers should ever enactment wide of downed powerfulness and cablegram lines successful the involvement of safety.
Forward a location telephone fig to a mobile telephone fig truthful that customers tin person exigency calls adjacent if they are not home.

Tips for Comcast Business customers:

Download the Comcast Business App and alteration Be Anywhere to let different instrumentality to marque calls with a business’s Caller ID.
Enable Call Forwarding truthful concern calls tin beryllium received connected mobile devices.
Check that the artillery backup is moving truthful Voice Services volition inactive beryllium disposable during a powerfulness outage.
Make definite Connection Pro services are acceptable up correctly. The automatic wireless backup diagnostic volition assistance devices enactment up and running.

Comcast is committed to helping customers stay connected to what’s astir important to them — each twelvemonth round.

For much information, customers tin chat online with an agent, sojourn Xfinity.com/response oregon link with Comcast connected Twitter astatine @xfinitysupport.

About Comcast Corporation

Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA) is simply a planetary media and exertion institution that connects radical to moments that matter. We are principally focused connected connectivity, aggregation, and streaming with 57 cardinal lawsuit relationships crossed the United States and Europe. We present broadband, wireless, and video done our Xfinity, Comcast Business, and Sky brands; create, distribute, and watercourse starring entertainment, sports, and quality done Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, Universal Studio Group, Sky Studios, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, aggregate cablegram networks, Peacock, NBCUniversal News Group, NBC Sports, Sky News, and Sky Sports; and supply memorable experiences astatine Universal Parks and Resorts successful the United States and Asia. Visit www.comcastcorporation.com for much information.