Saturday, February 2, 2013
Cox launches more than 750 locations throughout Fairfax County and Fairfax City -- about 13 of them in Vienna.
Northern Virginians on the go now have more places to tap into WiFi. Cox Communications launched more than 750 wireless Internet Hotspots this week across Fairfax County and Fairfax City, available for free to its Internet customers and soon at a small fee to others. About 13 of the hotspots are in the Vienna area. (See map at right). U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-11th) attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Northern Virginia this week along with Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Sharon Bulova and other local officials. “In today’s technology-driven society and economy, ready access to broadband is essential and Northern Virginia continues to be a leader in this field thanks to the investments of Cox and other regional internet …
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Company would not disclose how many customers were unable to receive incoming email over the weekend, but it included those from up and down the East Coast.
An untold number of customers who use Cox Communications email addresses were not able to receive incoming email messages throughout the weekend, a Cox Communications spokeswoman confirmed to Patch on Monday. Service was restored on Monday morning, but many customers have yet to received countless lost messages sent since Friday evening. The outage affected all Cox customers with cox.net email addresses on the East Coast and the Midwest. Emma Inman, a spokeswoman for the company, said it may take several days to deliver all the emails, which were stored in a queue in the company's server. "I don’t know specifically what happened, but something happened that prevented the email from being disseminated to our customers," Inman said. "We’re …
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Some Cox Communications subscribers in Northern Virginia report they had to watch the Super Bowl in Spanish. Did you have a similar problem?
At least two dozen Cox Communications cable subscribers in Virginia who tuned into watch the Super Bowl on Sunday were forced to listen to the game in Spanish. McLean resident Peter Maucher said the commericials were broadcast in English, the on-field interviews were broadcast in English, but the play-by-play commentary was in Spanish only. Centreville resident Bryan Scrafford said his non-HD channel broadcast the game in English, but the HD version was Spanish only, too. He had the same problem when the NFL Pro Bowl aired last month. Mike Leone, director of public affairs for Cox in Northern Virginia, said no more than two dozen subscribers in Northern Virginia and the Hampton Roads area complained about a similar issue. The problem, he …
Fishsauce
11:00 am on Saturday, February 2, 2013
As a current Cox HSI customer, this is great news. I have a smart phone but don't waste money on a data plan. I've been using Fairfax schools and libraries wifi, as well as fast food services (e.g. McDonald's and Starbucks) free wifi. This will expand the foot print of the my free wifi area. more ›