| Not raising HSI rates is misleading Comcast may not have directly raised HSI rates, but they've raised cable rates aplenty. It's all on one bill and goes to the same Comcast, so just b/c they can technically argue that HSI costs have stayed the same, they can't say customers aren't paying them more $$.  Isn't that no different from a Verizon claiming to lower rates only to charge you more on the unnecessary and mysterious fees?
If competition wasn't as strong in the HSI side, I suspect we'd see more rate increases spread across cable and internet packages and not in the cable only as we see now. |
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| said by wedgedkitty: It's all on one bill and goes to the same Comcast, so just b/c they can technically argue that HSI costs have stayed the same, they can't say customers aren't paying them more $$. Isn't that no different from a Verizon claiming to lower rates only to charge you more on the unnecessary and mysterious fees? Ummm...it's totally different from Verizon. Unless, of course, in exchange for the unnecessary and mysterious fees Verizon charges, you are getting 70-250 channels of cable tv.
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| With comcast, if you get their internet only, they make it more expensive, but if you get internet and cable tv, they "discount the internet" but at the end, they'll just keep jacking the cable tv cost up...
At the end, whether you get cable tv+internet, or internet alone, its still expensive, especially when in rural areas with no competition in terms of internet.
In my case, my bottom line is cheaper if I just go with comcrap for internet, and directv with the LOWEST possible package possible that has local. They really should make a local channels only package, that's where the good stuff is... |
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 telcolackey5The Truth? You can't handle the truth
join:2007-04-06
Death Valley, CA
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said by wedgedkitty:Comcast may not have directly raised HSI rates, but they've raised cable rates aplenty. It's all on one bill and goes to the same Comcast, so just b/c they can technically argue that HSI costs have stayed the same, they can't say customers aren't paying them more $$. Isn't that no different from a Verizon claiming to lower rates only to charge you more on the unnecessary and mysterious fees? Each of these have different competition and pricing structures. Analyzing them all together (one bill or not) is either naive, or some sort of justification of a pre-conceived opinion of a company.
Video rates rise because they have increase costs associated with content. This has been talked about many times and plenty of evidence to back this up. Video rates of the competition (DTV,Dish, etc) have also gone up for the same reason.
HSI speed has increased each year with little to no price increase because of competition (DSL mostly and now FiOS) and price decrease in higher speed capital over time. The price for data has change little since cable modems first came out while the speeds have increased.
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
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said by wedgedkitty:Comcast may not have directly raised HSI rates, but they've raised cable rates aplenty. It's all on one bill and goes to the same Comcast, so just b/c they can technically argue that HSI costs have stayed the same, they can't say customers aren't paying them more $$. Isn't that no different from a Verizon claiming to lower rates only to charge you more on the unnecessary and mysterious fees? If competition wasn't as strong in the HSI side, I suspect we'd see more rate increases spread across cable and internet packages and not in the cable only as we see now. video subs are subsidizing HSI!
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