| What do you know? It's happening everywhere... even in Southern California. I got mine last Friday (3/21/2003), and it's the same darn thing. Comcast is covering their a$$es whether you are a cable TV subscriber or not. You pay $43 / month for cable modem access with almost > $20 a month in a simple cable TV service (ie. local plus a very few cable channels) which is equivalent of the same monthly service fee of $57 / month if you DO NOT subscribe to their crappy cable TV channels. I'm all for DirectTV as they have not raised their fees since I got them for 3 years now. BTW, the crap that they give for that extra $14 / month is by in large you can get for free on the Internet. For that extra $14 / month I'll gladly pay for a reliable download speed of at least 3Mbps and 1Mbps upload. I hope this gets stopped before the other monopolistic businesses start doing this sort of thing as a regular business practice. |
