Xfinity customers will have to pay to stream Peacock soon
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#68SVX)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Comcast wants Xfinity subscribers to pay up for Peacock. In a post on Twitter, the Comcast-owned NBCUniversal confirmed plans to stop offering free access to Peacock Premium to Xfinity subscribers on June 26th, 2023 (via Variety).
Peacock Premium, which normally costs $4.99 per month, is an ad-supported plan that has been available to Xfinity customers at no extra cost since the service first launched in 2020. Details about the change first emerged in a post on Reddit, which an NBCUniversal representative later confirmed to Variety and The Streamable.
Hello Bob! Thank you for contacting Peacock, we're happy to help. We can confirm that complimentary Peacock Premium access will be ending on June 26, 2023, and we have no additional...