Cox Communications closed on its buy of Missouri-based fiber communications infrastructure services provider Unite Private Networks, Cox said Thursday. It said Unite and Cox-owned fiber infrastructure provider Segra will be a stand-alone fiber company focusing on growing in the commercial fiber market. Cox had been majority owner of Unite since 2016.

CableLabs and the Telecom Infra Project community validated version 2.9 of the open-source OpenWiFi platform and launched CableLabs' OpenWiFi Community Lab for testing and demonstration, CableLabs said Wednesday. The OpenWiFi platform is for enabling multivendor managed Wi-Fi networks.

Cable operators in a competitive video marketplace "take seriously our responsibility to operate transparently and provide consumers with relevant information related to the cost of services," NCTA emailed us Wednesday in response to the "all-in" video pricing NPRM adopted by the FCC (see 2306200042). The cable group said it plans to participate in the proceeding.

Wired broadband subscriber growth has stalled for now, but the cable industry can likely maintain broadband annual revenue growth of about 3% seen in recent years, MoffettNathanson wrote investors Tuesday. The faster average revenue per user growth rates for cable's competitors, like AT&T's fiber, "provide some measure of confidence," it said.

Comcast's fiber-to-the-home symmetrical service, Gigabit Pro, is now offering 10 Gbps symmetrical service, the company said Tuesday. It said that fixed broadband speed is available across all Comcast's markets.

None of the five shareholder proposals up for a vote at the company's annual meeting last week -- including a recommendation that it prepare a report on its dependence on China (see 304260032) -- passed, Comcast said Friday.

Comcast will announce next month the availability of multi-gigabyte symmetrical speeds throughout its entire footprint, Comcast Cable CEO Dave Watson said Tuesday during a J.P. Morgan investor conference. Watson said Comcast is enjoying "good success" in state-level broadband digital divide grants. The company extended its network past 840,000 passings last year and expects to do 1 million this year, with most of that unsubsidized, he said. Watson said about 85% of Comcast's mobile service traffic isn't carried via its mobile virtual network operator agreement, and it's "testing very actively" offloading more using its own spectrum. Comcast also unveiled its Now TV streaming platform Tuesday. At $20 a month, its lineup includes more than 40 live linear channels and more than 20 free ad-supported channels and Peacock Premium. It's available to Xfinity broadband subscribers.

Some Comcast advertising claims about its Xfinity home internet service challenged by T-Mobile are supported, but others should be modified or discontinued, the Better Business Bureau's National Advertising Division said Tuesday. NAD said it recommended Comcast modify its advertising to clearly disclose that its “Xfinity Mobile now has the fastest mobile service” claim is based on combined Wi-Fi and cellular speeds and that the claim is true only within its Wi-Fi footprint or when connected to Wi-Fi. NAD said Comcast indicated it agrees to comply with the recommendations though it disagrees that any of the challenged ads convey unsupported messages concerning T-Mobile's home internet service.

The cable industry's slowed broadband subscriber growth reflects a maturation in penetration, but the growing demand for capacity will mean data peaks "unlike anything we've seen today," Comcast CEO Brian Roberts said at a MoffettNathanson conference Tuesday. He said meeting peak demand will be where the company expects notable broadband revenue growth. With sports increasingly going to streaming, "the last thing you're going to want is a spinning wheel" of buffering, he said. He said slow broadband sub growth also reflects not competing well for the lower end of the marketplace, but the company is making new efforts there. He said housing growth needs to resume in the U.S. before subscriber growth returns.

Ritter Communications launched 5 Gbps and 2 Gbps symmetrical fiber-to-the-home internet service across the entirety of its Arkansas and Tennessee fiber network, it said last week.