Topic 'Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year!' in forum 'Comcast Cable TV' - dslreports.com http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23290104 en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:12:49 EDT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:12:49 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23317727 Tacoma, WA]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23317727 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:29:30 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23316462 I expect that is from the increase of modem rental fees.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23316462 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:33:28 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23312615
I live not far from the OP, and was quoted $6.50/mo to upgrade my Digital Starter SD STB to HD.

Coincidence?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23312615 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:47:42 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23312114 said by Curlee:

said by Total Noob:

It shows a new fee : "HD Technology Fee (w/Qualifying Digital Package)" ... $6.50. What does that mean?
My guess is that's the additional charge for an HD STB over the standard SD STB.
No they have listed fees for a HD box and HD dvr.

sounds like a cable card / tru2way fee.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23312114 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:34:16 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23311073 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23311073 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:21:25 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23310933 said by Total Noob:

It shows a new fee : "HD Technology Fee (w/Qualifying Digital Package)" ... $6.50. What does that mean?
My guess is that's the additional charge for an HD STB over the standard SD STB.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23310933 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:50:07 EDT New Jersey regulates lmited basic rates? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/New-Jersey-regulates-lmited-basic-rates-23310654
PROPOSED CHANGE IN MAXIMUM
PERMITTED RATES
PURSUANT TO 47 C.F.R. 76.900 ET SEQ.
Comcast of Garden State, L.P.
(All Service Areas,
except
Carney's Point, NJ)

On October 1, 2009 (revised October 26, 2009), Comcast of Garden State, L.P. (All Service areas, except Carney's Point) ("Comcast") filed a Petition with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, in Docket Number CR09100793, for the approval of an annual rate adjustment in its maximum permitted rate to reflect an adjustment for inflation, channel changes and changes in external costs, as permitted by Federal Law (47 C.F.R. 76.922 (e) (1)) and FCC Form 1240. Federal Law (47 C.F.R. 76.922 (e) (2)) also allows certain cable companies to adjust their rates for inflation based upon changes in the Gross National Product Price Index published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the United States Department of Commerce.

Under Comcast's proposal, the maximum permitted rate for the basic service tier would be $10.23 per month, exclusive of franchise and regulatory fees. The monthly charge for regulatory fees imposed by the Federal Communications Commission is $.07. Therefore, Comcast's maximum permitted rate for its basic service tier, including franchise and regulatory fees, shall be generally $10.54 per month. Actual rates charged for the basic service tier may be lower than the maximum permitted rate.

The proposed rate change will go into effect on January 1, 2010 as permitted under the Federal Communications Commission rules and regulations. These rates may be subject to refund with interest if not approved by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities.

Pursuant to N.J.A.C. 14:17-6.17, notice is hereby given that Comcast's subscribers and other members of the public may submit their views in writing to Celeste M. Fasone, Director, Office of Cable Television at the address appearing below: Celeste M. Fasone,
Director
Board of Public Utilities
Office of Cable
Television
2 Gateway Center, Eighth Floor
Newark, New Jersey 07102

»pa.mypublicnotices.com/PublicNot···=1627739]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/New-Jersey-regulates-lmited-basic-rates-23310654 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:33:10 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23309966 said by cypherstream:

One has to think, eventually with all of this money they are sitting on, something big is going to happen. A big purchase, or some huge project, etc...
Stock buybacks to boost the share price and the potential NBC/Universal deal,otherwise they have been spending less and less on Cap EX, both growth and maintenance capital spending has been down 3 years in a row the biggest expense being Customer Premise Equipment.

Page 3:
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From most recent 8-K filing:

Share Repurchase
In the third quarter of 2009, Comcast repurchased 16.1 million of its common shares for $250 million. Year-to-date, Comcast has repurchased 31.6 million of its common shares for $465 million. As of September 30, 2009, Comcast had approximately $3.6 billion of availability remaining under its share repurchase authorization, and may repurchase stock from time to time subject to market conditions. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23309966 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:24:45 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23309878
One has to think, eventually with all of this money they are sitting on, something big is going to happen. A big purchase, or some huge project, etc...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23309878 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:02:23 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23309589
They had a $944 million dollar profit in the third quarter of 2009, a $177 million increase over last year. ("tough economic times" indeed)

They don't only screw their customers... they don't give their employees cost of living increases and this year they cut their employees 401K matching and increased employee contribution to insurance.

Greedy bastards.
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[Insert Comcast employee disclaimer here.]]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23309589 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:37:39 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23309562 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23309562 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:27:48 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23309508 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23309508 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:09:31 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23307948 said by DrunkenLegen:

This is pretty stupid to be real honest. You're paying a monthly fee for every TV you own, then you have to pay a monthly fee for an eMTA --which is basically a cablem modem-- even if you own your own modem.
$7.50 for a STB over in Northern CA, 5 bucks for an eMTA, so all in all most people are paying at least $20 (2 STB and an eMTA) on equipment rental a month.
The even bigger joke is with DSL you get free modems and you own them.

also direct tv is able to let you rent any box $5/m even hd dvr's.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23307948 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:45:39 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23307763 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23307763 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:50:42 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23304288 $7.50 for a STB over in Northern CA, 5 bucks for an eMTA, so all in all most people are paying at least $20 (2 STB and an eMTA) on equipment rental a month. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23304288 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:54:06 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23292588
I don't know enough to call it "a scam", but you'd think for as long as cable hardware (STB, DVR, cable modem, MTA) has been out, and the general advances in computer technology, that the costs would be going down.

Jeff]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23292588 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:02:51 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23292063 said by Total Noob:

It shows a new fee : "HD Technology Fee (w/Qualifying Digital Package)" ... $6.50. What does that mean?
sounds like the cable card HD fee that some systems have.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23292063 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:26:06 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23291363 said by Elevatorguy4:

By the way. Can they increase your rental fee if you are in a year long price package guarantee? Last year the HD DVR rental fee went up and this year it is the eMTA.
Yeah because equipment is separate. For example, my voice service is still $33 a month.

It wouldn't be a big deal to me if I could just buy my own eMTA. Lucky data only customers can do that with their modems. In protest I would usually go to another provider. Although for the same voice features Verizon tacks on a lot of additional taxes, surcharges and fees. Plus you loose out to Caller ID on screen functionality. So either way it's a LOOSE-LOOSE situation for the customer.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23291363 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:27:03 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23291323 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23291323 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:21:34 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23291312 said by cypherstream:

This months bill my eMTA rental fee went from $3 to $5 a month. They cite 'rising equipment costs'. Really? I've had the same DOCSIS 2.0 eMTA since CDV was first offered in my area...

Now surely I would understand the rental going up if they came out and installed a new DOCSIS 3.0 eMTA this month. That is a new equipment. The D2 eMTA I have now should be paid off at this point.
I agree. These equipment rental fees should be on some kind of scale where the longer you keep them, the lower the monthly fee to rent them. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23291312 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:19:56 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23290743 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23290743 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:35:52 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23290874 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23290874 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:04:21 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23290674
Now surely I would understand the rental going up if they came out and installed a new DOCSIS 3.0 eMTA this month. That is a new equipment. The D2 eMTA I have now should be paid off at this point.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23290674 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:33:20 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23290625
THE DVR box, HD BOX, and outlet fees are way over the top.

$20 for a DVR, $10 for a HD outlets at $10 makeing cable cards cost about the same as HD DVR box that can VOD and PPV?

what a rip. Direct will yet add boxes for $5/m any one.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23290625 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:29:16 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23290617
A couple years ago they raised in Jan and then again in Nov, twice in less than 12 months. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23290617 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:24:56 EDT Re: Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23290277
»i991.photobucket.com/albums/af32···mage.jpg]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23290277 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:31:47 EDT Comcast raises prices for the second time in a year! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23290104 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Comcast-raises-prices-for-the-second-time-in-a-year-23290104 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:01:19 EDT