said by beerbum :

so will Comcast be reducing our bills since the equivalent service from Giganews is $7.99 per month?

hahahaha I doubt it. Comcast just takes and takes while either raising prices or restricting/dropping services..

what's next, dump the "always on" and start charging by the hour after being on-line past a certain time limit??

this really sucks, now I have to pay an extra $8 per month for a service I want and use?

absolute bullshit..

said by beerbum :

so will Comcast be reducing our bills since the equivalent service from Giganews is $7.99 per month?

said by CableTool :

Did your rate increase $7.99 when newsgroup access was added to accounts?

I've been a Comcast HSI subscriber for eight years, and newsgroups have been a part of the package Comcast has marketed that whole time.

Also when did Comcast raise CHSI prices?

I'm not sure how that's relevant, since we're talking about reduction in services without a commiserate reduction in price.

Now you have to pay $8.00 a month for service you were previously getting for free. Chances are you will not and many will not.

said by Welcome to Post :

Correction: nothing is free from a for-profit company. Newsgroups have been part of the internet package that Comcast markets. We are now facing a reduction in that package.

said by Rob :

So when Comcast went from 6/384 to 6/1 and 8/768 to 8/2, did your Internet rate go up? After all, nothing is free. So all of our rates must have gone up with the increase in speed.

said by quetwo :

Yes. About the same time my cap was lifted from 6/384 to 6/1, there was a price increase of about $5. While most people didn't have the timing as close as we did, we had our yearly "we need more money"-a-thon the same time they did the slight bump in upload speeds.

said by quetwo :

Yes. About the same time my cap was lifted from 6/384 to 6/1, there was a price increase of about $5. While most people didn't have the timing as close as we did, we had our yearly "we need more money"-a-thon the same time they did the slight bump in upload speeds.

said by Welcome to Post :

Correction: nothing is free from a for-profit company. Newsgroups have been part of the internet package that Comcast markets. We are now facing a reduction in that package.

said by CableTool :

When News groups were added originally there was no price increase. So removing it would not merit a price reduction.

said by CableTool :

When News groups were added originally there was no price increase. So removing it would not merit a price reduction.

said by mogulman :

AT&T used to have their own news servers. Then they moved it to giganews. If they are going to remove this function of the internet, they should reduce the price they are charging.

said by CableTool :

When News groups were added originally there was no price increase. So removing it would not merit a price reduction.

said by Doctor Olds :

What exact date range was Usenet "added originally" by Comcast? You do know Usenet existed before WWW, right?

said by Rob :

You misunderstood. Cabletool was referring to when Comcast originally started offering newsgroup access to their customers either through Comcast's own servers or using giganews.

said by Rob :

You misunderstood. Cabletool was referring to when Comcast originally started offering newsgroup access to their customers either through Comcast's own servers or using giganews.