2 edits | Lack of competition hasn't stopped Comcast upgrading my area When you're the only game in town (be it cable, telco, satellite or carrier pigeon), you get to charge whatever you'd like for last-generation service. Old Verizon DSL(max 3 mbps downstream) is the best Verizon or anyone else has done in my area in the way of competition to Comcast. Except Comcast which has upgraded their speeds about 10 times in the last 8 yrs without any increase in price for the basic HSI(or is that now called Xfinity  )tier. So why hasn't Comcast raised their price or stayed on slow speeds? A lack of competition hasn't made them stand still.
Comcast seems to be defying the stereotype of "No Competition, therefore no improved service". |
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 VanPremium
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New Orleans, LA | I just moved BECAUSE of the laughably low 3mb offered in my area....that was IT unless I want Sat web service.
No thanks
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 JRW2R.I.P. Mom, Brian, Ziggy, Max and Zen.Premium
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| said by Van:Now I have FiOS which makes me want to cry from happiness This is why Comcast raised speeds with no price increase, they were afraid they would lose MORE customers as FIOS continued to be rolled out.
With Verizon stopping their rollouts, I doubt you will see as much change in the coming months/years... 
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kudos:2 | said by JRW2:said by Van:Now I have FiOS which makes me want to cry from happiness This is why Comcast raised speeds with no price increase, they were afraid they would lose MORE customers as FIOS continued to be rolled out. With Verizon stopping their rollouts, I doubt you will see as much change in the coming months/years... I disagree. If this was true, then Comcast would have only upped the speeds in the FiOS markets. Instead, they did a blanket nationwide upgrade from 6/1 to 12/2, 8/2 to 16/2, and then added 22/5 and 50/5.
Comcast is upgrading their network because they choose to, not because Verizon rolled out FiOS.
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Afraid... to funny, Fios doesnt come close to the footprint that comcast has... if anything they would be afraid of att with the availability of uverse. Fios is a better product but hardly gets to the same customer level as others |
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the only props I will give to comcast is that at least they pushed ahead with upgrades, even in areas where they didn't have competition.
This is unlike the telcos, who sat around on their @sses while this happened, with a few exceptions like Verizon.
that being said, I hate comcast, have FIOS now and will never go back to cable unless they get rid of caps and price lower than fiber. and maybe not even then. |
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said by JRW2:said by Van:Now I have FiOS which makes me want to cry from happiness This is why Comcast raised speeds with no price increase, they were afraid they would lose MORE customers as FIOS continued to be rolled out. With Verizon stopping their rollouts, I doubt you will see as much change in the coming months/years... Comcast has been raising speeds for free for the last 10 years. MUCH longer before FIOS was around.
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