said by mmainprize:said by anon anon :said by NightOwl2:Received account notification: as of February 25th, 2013, rate increases from $49.99 to $54.99, for the 30 Mbps plan. Possibly to cover the *free* modem? For my limited usage, this is wayyy too high.
You realize the old rate with a Charter modem was $65. $58 for 30 meg and $7 more the modem. So even if you had your own modem it was $58. And this is $3 LESS than that you say?
Also WHERE did you recieve this notification? I don't see it on my account anywhere. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong spot.
Hey Anon, Who ever you are,
many have had internet for years with charter and have been able to get it for much less in the past with a two year contract and or triple play packages with are own modems. You do realize over the years the cost to deliver that higher speed has dropped many times. So why quote old prices. Back during that pricing Charter was complaining about the 1% that was using to much bandwidth and wanted to charge them more. So now it is just charge everyone more like we are all bandwidth hogs.
The point made here is not everyone wants $55 month internet. But it seems that Charter only wants the high end users (bandwidth hogs) because the low end users are getting screwed if they don't use it much at $55 Plus FEEs and Taxes in some areas.
I can see more customers dropping Charter internet because of this price, or Dropping TV faster then they would have and moving to TV over the internet to use waht they are paying for. Then we will see Charter change the rules again to rake in the cash even more.
Charter just set the price at $50 a month and now only a few months later is raising it 10%. For anyone that is still on the $29 a month price it will seem like gouging.
I can see more customers dropping Charter or not even signing up with them to begin with also even if means paying a stupid amount for some slow a** AT&T, Frontier, etc DSL just because those companies also know they and Charter have you in a malachi crunch, or, in other words, have you by the gonads!!