Congrats on getting your upstream increased. I may try again to get under a contract in a week or two once the workers get back from the strike and get ahead on the back log of issues.
they're still offering the contract at least online. i don't know what the asterisk about taxes is about. there have never been any on my past internet bills. i think that they just automatically put that on the bottom of everybody's bill.
I just checked online and I'm not seeing that offer that you posted. I don't know if that's because you're in NY and I'm in MD. Maybe it's a regional thing. The cheapest plan they had for me was $44.99 a month for Regional Essentials POTS with 3 Mbps DSL, or $59.99 for Freedom Essentials and 3 Mbps DSL plus taxes and fees. For dry loop the online ordering system wouldn't let me get on a contract, only month to month at my current $44.99 a month.