Comcastic Billing Price Hikes

[wetcat007]

Everyone in the Minneapolis metro area who recently got switched from Time Warner to Comcast, your cable Internet cost is going from 45 to 60 dollars a month, just got a letter about it and how comcastic it is. gahhhh I never thought I'd say I want time warner back.

comcast =

 

[state 08]

you gotta know the tricks...

been paying as low as 20 and as high as 30 for comcast internet for past 2 years

 

[wetcat007]

Originally posted by: state 08
you gotta know the tricks...

been paying as low as 20 and as high as 30 for comcast internet for past 2 years

What would these tricks be? I don't have cable tv or phone service...

 

[state 08]

call um up, and jus shoot the sh1t with them about how you want a lower price. No luck, then hang up, try again. Repeat until results occur.

 

[miri]

Comcast sucks, I remember getting a bill that was close to $300 from them for some reason.

Cox is better because they are cheaper, I get digital cable/HD-DVR/cable internet//landline phone not Voip from Cox for like $100 a month.

 

[Aftermath]

Originally posted by: miri
Comcast sucks, I remember getting a bill that was close to $300 from them for some reason.

Cox is better because they are cheaper, I get digital cable/HD-DVR/cable internet//landline phone not Voip from Cox for like $100 a month.

Boy am I on the wrong coast for cable service. I've got Cox and the digital cable (box, no DVR) and cable internet is $108/month.

 

[techs]

My prediction last year was that cable companies realize that the public is begining to wise up to the fact they have a monopoly and that they managed to remove virutally all government restrictions on that monoply.
Some type of regulation is coming and the cable companies want as many rate hikes as they can now to offset the reductions in their price gouging coming in the next few years.

 

[HeaterCore]

Yeah, that'll be the day. The FCC is moving towards inter-technology competition (i.e. cable vs. DSL vs. BPL vs. wireless), not intra-tech competition.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I think the world is moving towards on-demand videos via the Internet. The TV is so 20th Century.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: techs
My prediction last year was that cable companies realize that the public is begining to wise up to the fact they have a monopoly and that they managed to remove virutally all government restrictions on that monoply.
Some type of regulation is coming and the cable companies want as many rate hikes as they can now to offset the reductions in their price gouging coming in the next few years.

That's what happens when you go from a republican to a democrat style gubment. Both have their evils. Republicans defend monopolies and big business, screwing the common man out of a huge percentage of their paychecks. And Democrats tend to waste zillions of dollars on humanitarian welfare b.s. when they should just let people die in the streets already.

 

[40Hands]

Most cable companies piss me off. They have us by the balls and they know it.

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: BroeBo
Most cable companies piss me off. They have us by the balls and they know it.

QFT