 NightfallMy Goal Is To Deny YoursPremium,MVM
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1 edit | Don't go cheap on me now After reading about the increased caps last week, I thought that Comcast would be following through with 500gb at the Blast tier. Apparently, that isn't the case in Tucson where the same tier is 350gb. I don't go over the 250gb level and I am on the Blast tier, so bandwidth isn't the issue for me, but it would still be nice to throw people who have this higher tier of speed a bone or two. 350gb is not enough for the excessive users at that tier. Should be at least 400gb or 500gb.
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 RobIn Deo speramus.Premium
join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
kudos:3 | Grace Period Is the grace period just for the first year after the implementation of the new caps? |
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 IowaCowboyWant to go back to IowaPremium
join:2010-10-16
Springfield, MA
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| Caps are not an issue for me I subscribe to cable TV so caps are not an issue for me.
Comcast is a cable company, and their core product is cable television and high speed Internet and phone is a side business for them. Their Internet would be like 4-5 times more expensive without the pay tv revenues as maintaining cable plants and customer service is expensive.
If it was not for customer backlash or regulatory pressure, they would require that you purchase cable tv in order to subscribe to Internet (like Verizon requiring a landline to get DSL).
The could allow competing ISPs access to their network and still be profitable because they could charge those ISPs for access to their network (like CLECs are charged by the ILEC for network access).
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 aaronwtPremium
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Woodbridge, VA | Profit margins would still be much higher for internet than for TV |
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Cable TV is nobody's core business. The programmers take all the revenue from cable TV. Internet is where it is at. Phoen is a great revenue maker also. |
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rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO | reply to IowaCowboy
Do you think their core product will continue to be video? I have my doubts.
»gigaom.com/broadband/the-cable-i···d-right/ |
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NightfallMy Goal Is To Deny YoursPremium,MVM
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said by revenue neut :Cable TV is nobody's core business. The programmers take all the revenue from cable TV. Internet is where it is at. Phoen is a great revenue maker also.
Link? Source?
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to Nightfall
Re: Don't go cheap on me now said by Nightfall:I don't go over the 250gb level and I am on the Blast tier, so bandwidth isn't the issue for me,
350gb is not enough. Should be at least 400gb or 500gb.   |
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Re: Caps are not an issue for me you do have to buy cable tv in order to subscribe to Internet.
Or it that that limited basic + Internet is about the same price as Internet on it's own.
Now why not just a basic line fee and then cut the price or Internet and cable tv.
But make the line fee be on it's own. |
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| ? Which duopoly company started this first? AT&T, Comcast or Time Warner?
IIRC it was Time Warner floating the idea, then followed by Comcast's "SOFT CAP POLICY" followed by AT&T's HARD CAP policy.. and since that went unchallened, Comcast thinks they can shove down the consumer's throats, or backsides a hard cap policy..
I guess it sucks to live where these companies have free reign to screw over the consumer with usage based billing AND have a franchise lock on the communities they serve. No wonder the population is moving to the eastern half of the country instead of moving west.. wher infrastructure is more developed. |
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BobAccount deleted
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New Jersey | Why not just get rid of the caps? Why not just get rid of the caps entirely? |
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Re: ? said by tmc8080: No wonder the population is moving to the eastern half of the country instead of moving west.. wher infrastructure is more developed.
You are way off on that tid bid of information, just comparing Arizona to NY. Arizona is growing 3x as fast as NY not to mention other NE states. 1.42% vs .45%
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.···wth_rate
By the way these companies are pack hunters, it is not a question if VZ will have caps, it is when? |
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Re: Why not just get rid of the caps? Because think of the poor Comcast executives who can't bring in a new revenue stream!
And previous posters were correct in stating that cable TV is not that profitable, nowhere near as profitable as broadband. There's basically no regulations on providing broadband, and most of the fees are straight profit. Would this be the case if cable TV died off? Maybe not. But it is the case in the current marketplace. |
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NightfallMy Goal Is To Deny YoursPremium,MVM
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Grand Rapids, MI | reply to BF69
Re: Don't go cheap on me now Fixed my statement. Forgot to add "for the excessive users at that tier".
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IowaCowboyWant to go back to IowaPremium
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Re: Caps are not an issue for me Maybe to protect cable TV revenue, they could base the caps on what tv package the customer subscribes to (such as low caps for Internet only subscribers to no caps for customers subscribing to two or more premium channels).
I still think the only good way to get quality TV programming is to subscribe to cable. Streaming services still don't give you access to live tv such as the Weather Channel, Fox News, local newscasts, etc. I also love reality shows such as Cops.
When you have a node full of people streaming the same content that is offered by the cable provider, they are consuming network resources for those wanting to use other applications such as gaming, web surfing, etc. Shift the streaming users to the content offered by the cableco, that frees up network resources for HSI users that use other applications as the cableco already has network resources allocated to hd programming in the form of their cable offerings. That is why Comcast has every right to manage their networks. Cable TV is a regulated monopoly and streaming services such as Netflix undercut cable TV as they don't have to meet the same standards as cable tv but they consume their resources.
I subscribe to cable tv and always will.
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covfam
join:2012-03-05
Black River Falls, WI | reply to Joe12345678
er no i dont have charter cable tv, just charter internet with thier 30 meg tier, i wasnt tied or required to get anything else, in fact i have direct tv for my video needs (charter tv sux bad) perhaps comcast has different requirements, |
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| good for comcast.. what about everyone else Good news for Comcast customers hopefull in areas like my snowbird residence in Central FL will get a boost , but my main Address in IL is still screwed ( on ATT DSL). OK wheres ATT's rebuttal on this, with there tired DSL and Uverse service caps.. OH I forget there more along the lines of saying..." raise our caps ,over our dead body!" |
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JoelC707Premium
join:2002-07-09
West Point, GA
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Re: Don't go cheap on me now Actually I think he's picking on the gb vs GB thing. |
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You know the caps will be designed to gain a bit of revenue at each level. |
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Re: Caps are not an issue for me Unfortunately, I don't think it's their core product anymore. It's more the side business with phone and Internet being the main draw. Certainly Comcast provides better Internet than cable. |
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