 RickPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT | User Morac should be happy it was only 3.2% Comcast has just taken over my area and we just received a price increase notice of 7 to 14% with the expanded basic cable going up the 7% while some of the add ons and equipment up to 14%.
What their strategy clearly appears to be is to get people over into their triple play bundle. When you work out that price, for the 99.00 they're giving you the phone service for free.
While the percentage increase is kind of steep, personally I don't see what they ask for their service as being too much. Break down that triple play bundle to a daily cost and you wind up with about 3.00 a day. For phone..digital cable and 6MB HSI.
There's a whole lot of value in that I think.
Think about it for a minute. For someone even with a 12.00 an hour job, it takes them a whopping 15 minutes of their day to pay for all this service and entertainment.
This amounts to half the price of a "value meal" at mc'ds...or a loaf of good bread.
Somewhere along the lines, I think maybe we started to ask for too much. Don't you think?
Anyone as old as me should certainly remember the 200 and 300.00 per month dial up bills from the likes of compuserve and whomever...and phone bills alone that equaled what all these services now cost combined.
Every year, it seems like they give us more. Whether it's speed or channels.
I just don't see a problem here myself.
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