Comcast announced on Monday its plan add more neighborhood Wi-Fi hotspots hoping to encourage its service market internet users to stay connected using their handheld devices even if they are not at home.

The neighborhood Wi-Fi is branded after the company’s cable service is called Xfinitywifi. It started in early 2013 and has around 1,000 customers in New Jersey area along, close to Comcast’s headquarters located in Philadelphia. Now, it is available to more than 100,000 users in several locations of New Jersey, Northern Virginia, Pennsylvania, and the Washington, D.C. metro area.

Xfinitywifi is offered free for Comcast cable subscribers, and those who are not signed up with the company can try the service for an hour, twice a month free of charge.

Tom Nagel, Comcast Cable's Senior Vice President of business development, mentioned in USA Today that Wi-Fi is a vital part of their strategy; they want to give their subscribers the capability to connect their devices, anytime, anywhere.

The neighborhood hotspot is not yet part of the CableWiFi Alliance, a network of 150,000 Wi-Fi access points nationwide, which is a partnership of five of the biggest cable companies in the country.

In May 2012, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Comcast, Bright House Networks, and Cox Communications broadcasted the creation of CableWiFi, as a collaborative attempt to give Wi-Fi Internet service outside of the subscribers’ homes.

Customers from any of the five companies can get access from CableWiFi for free, allowing them to stay connected outside the wireless connections provided by the mobile phone carriers.

It only started with 50,000 when it launched last year, and now the coalition announced that since then the network has grown more than three times.

When looking for Wi-Fi signal on the go, subscribers from any of the five companies may search for “CableWiFi” network using their handheld devices and log on using the same information they have to connect to their own provider’s network.