If you live in Fountain Hill, you\u2019ll soon have a new option for home internet. Philadelphia-based Xfinity has been updating the community with mailers announcing that \u201cFiber-powered Wifi is moving in,\u201d which it explains is a hybrid broadband internet service \u201cpowered by fiber and connected to the premises by coaxial cable.\u201d<\/p>\n
The postcards encourage recipients to visit the Xfinity website <\/a>and, after verifying availability, complete a form to receive updates.<\/p>\n According to the site, the rollout will be happening this fall. It notes that \u201cresidential internet plans include WiFi equipment and the option to guarantee your internet price for five years.\u201d<\/p>\n The postcards promise \u201clightning speed\u2026uploads and downloads\u201d and that customers will be able to cut their mobile bills \u201cin half.\u201d They also promise a one-year, no obligation free trial of Xfinity Mobile, which is a wireless phone service offered by parent company Comcast.<\/p>\n As a Mobile Virtual Network Operator, Xfinity Mobile uses cell towers owned by other companies, bundling them with public wifi networks.<\/p>\n The postcard\u2019s fine print notes that \u201cXfinity Mobile requires residential post-pay Internet,\u201d for which speeds may vary.<\/p>\n \u201cDue to current equipment capabilities, download speeds are limited to 940 Mbps in certain properties,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n The postcards don\u2019t reference pricing, but according to Xfinity.com the company currently offers a 300 Mbps Wifi plan for $40 a month and a Gig Wifi plan for $50 a month, with prices locked in for five years.<\/p>\n The Xfinity website features FAQs about residential and business internet plans offered by the company, and what the construction timeline may look like in the communities where it is expanding.<\/p>\n \u201cYou may notice construction crews and equipment such as drills, large trucks, trailers and more,\u201d it said. \u201cAll workers will always wear safety vests and identification showing they are Xfinity employees or authorized contractors.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cConstruction typically occurs in phases,\u201d it noted. \u201cWhile work near your home may only take a few days, full construction in your area can take weeks or months depending on weather and conditions. The timelines all vary on terrain, existing infrastructure and local municipalities.\u201d<\/p>\n Xfinity has been steadily expanding its network northward into the Lehigh Valley in recent years, with recent rollouts in municipalities to the south of Fountain Hill, including Hellertown, Lower Saucon Township<\/a> and Upper Saucon Township<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you live in Fountain Hill, you\u2019ll soon have a new option for home internet. Philadelphia-based Xfinity has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,52712,26116,7585,55723,5679,433,16401,1986,50492],"class_list":["post-266959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-broadband","tag-comcast","tag-fountain-hill","tag-high-speed","tag-internet","tag-lehigh-county","tag-mobile","tag-residential","tag-xfinity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}