 RickPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT | If Comcast is just now getting away with murder my cable operators customers were shot years ago because they (Insight Communications) have done this since day one
with RoadRunner.
No cable TV..your RR costs 54.95 per month
with cable...44.95
Although it sucks to be a comcast customer and find yourself in this position with such a large increase,
their new pricing for internet only is competitive with most other Broadband only options. And, for many people these days, there are other choices available with
DSL and the specials they frequently run.
SBC's 1500k package for DSL only here in town is now 44.95
which certainly is competitive with RR..except it's 10.00 less per month right now.
Personally, I think it's fair when a company does something like this. Buy more from them and pay them more, and they give you a better deal. That has been standard business practice for many companies for years, and why it should be any different for this..I just can't see it.
Also, consider it in the reverse. Why should Comcast or any other cable company customers in effect be subsidizing non cable customers to allow them to get the same price?
And lastly, I just don't see ANY comparison to the situation Microsoft had going as the author of this BBR story makes. Microsoft TIED in their own browser to a monopoly product such as windows is...forcing consumers to take it..and effectively shutting netscape out of the market. There is no forcing anyone to do anything here.
With the competition cable has with Satellite, I don't see that as a monopoly product..and no one is being forced to sign up for broadband.
While I am NO fan of AT&Tcast...and am sympathetic to
those customers who just got caught up in this price increase..I do think their pricing is in line with others now and they do have the right to do this.
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