Comcast is now making Xumo Stream Boxes available to its Xfinity broadband customers. New customers can get one Xumo Box for a $15 activation fee and no monthly charge. Additional units will be billed at $5 per month, the company says. The Xumo Stream Box comes preloaded with hundreds of streaming apps. In addition to NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service, popular favorites like Disney+, Hulu, Max, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and YouTube are on the menu. Free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channels are also packaged in, with 20 options from Xfinity Stream and more than 300 from Xumo Play.

“In addition, customers with Comcast’s Now TV low-priced pay-TV bundle (which excludes sports and local TV) can access 40-plus streaming channels from A&E, AMC, Hallmark, Warner Bros. Discovery and more,” writes Variety.

Customers can access the streaming channels using a voice-enabled remote. While the box is developed by Xumo, a joint venture between Comcast and Charter, the Entertainment OS software that drives it (as well as Sky Glass and Sky Stream) is credited to Comcast in the company’s news announcement.

The UI is “built upon the same RDK-powered global technology platform that delivers nearly five billion entertainment streams per week to customers across Comcast, Sky, Xumo and its syndication partners, and processes 15 billion entertainment-related voice commands a day through its award-winning voice search technology,” Comcast says, explaining that the system improves upon the “search and discovery features Xfinity customers love about X1 and Flex,” with a UI that’s “easier to navigate.”

In October, Charter began shipping Xumo Boxes to Spectrum video customers for free for 12 months, after which point it would cost $60 to purchase the device outright or $5 per month to rent it, Variety says, adding that “existing Spectrum TV subscribers can also buy or pay a service fee for a Xumo Box for the same terms.”

StreamTV Insider says it is notable that Comcast is making the Xumo Box available free to its “large base of 29.8 million residential Xfinity broadband subscribers.” A third U.S. cable operator making Xumo available to its broadband subs is Mediacom, “in part as a way to maintain an entertainment relationship with customers as they shift to streaming and operators turn attention to high-speed Internet.”