 Scarlett1313
join:2002-01-11
New York, NY
| please nooooo I love my Adelphia service. My uptime has been fantastic, and my premium speeds top 6.5mbit download and 800kbit upload. Not to mention I have no caps, throttling, restrictions, anything. Please don't change me to Comcast or Time Warner  | |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
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| Re: please nooooo said by Scarlett1313  :I love my Adelphia service. My uptime has been fantastic, and my premium speeds top 6.5mbit download and 800kbit upload. Not to mention I have no caps, throttling, restrictions, anything. Please don't change me to Comcast or Time Warner With Time Warner, your premium downstream will be upgraded to 8Mbit but you'll lose quite a bit of your upstream. It'll go down to 512Kbit.
There are no usage limits or monthly caps with Time Warner either. That seems to be limited to Comcast and OOL. | |
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| | dogcacher
join:2004-07-17
Central City, PA
| Re: please nooooo said by Matt :said by Scarlett1313 :There are no usage limits or monthly caps with Time Warner either. That seems to be limited to Comcast and OOL. What are Comcast's and OOL's usage limits and/or monthly caps? | |
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join:2002-01-11
New York, NY | Re: please nooooo That is a question for the ages....if I remember correctly, neither company tell you what they are...just that you went over them and either restrict or cancel your service. | |
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| | | blondebaldy
join:2001-12-13
Williamsport, PA
| The caps for Comcast are 6.6Mb/s for their gold tier and 4.4MB/s for their base plan. There are no hidden usage caps and throttling on comcast. The only time u might get a warning from comcast about usage is if you download/upload 24/7. Other than that i hope this helps | |
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| apobull
join:2001-05-03
Manchester, MD
| If the FCC has anything to say about this, this is far from over. They may go back and address the court's concerns with the Cable Act bill they passed back in the 90s that among other things stated that one cable company cannot own more than 30% of the market nationwide. This acquisition would bump Comcast from their 29% now to 44. | |
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| | smcallah
join:2004-08-05
Home | Re: please nooooo Maybe I'm confused. But how does Comcast picking up only 1.9 million subscribers bump them from 29% of the market to 44%?
Their customer base is pretty large already. 1.9 million is not that big of an addition to Comcast. | |
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join:2001-05-03
Manchester, MD | Re: please nooooo See this story at the Washington Post. Shouldn't have to register. Perhaps the 44% is a bit high but certainly over 30%
»tinyurl.com/agjtm | |
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Comcablrtl
join:2003-10-25
Midwest
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| Comcast is not going to own all of the Adelphia properties. The 1.9 million new subs will belong to Comcast. The rest of Adelphia will be owned by a joint venture with Time Warner and Comcast at the helm together. Also, there will be no rejection to the deal. It is as good as done. | |
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J D McDorce
Premium
join:2001-12-29
Westland, MI
| Re: please nooooo said by Comcablrtl :The rest of Adelphia will be owned by a joint venture with Time Warner and Comcast at the helm together. Not based on Comcast's announcement today: »www.cmcsk.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=11···ghlight=
One of the net effects of the deal is to eliminate Comcast's ownership (and involvement) in Time Warner's cable operations. | |
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Titus Pullo
I came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26 | Be sure to send Rigas a thank you note  | |
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Old Comedywriter
@65.183.x.x
| DSL just became available in our area, and I have Earthlink, so QWEST won out. "Adolph-ia" restricted us to their internet service, and I would have been double-billed to keep my Earthlink email addresses and webspace. If they had sold a year ago, it would be either TW or Comcast cable internet for me. Maybe in another year...or maybe NOT. | |
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HardwareGeek
join:2003-11-15
Brooklyn, NY | Who wants to bet that CV will Sue CV will sue I know they will Their soar losers the ugly bastards
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Crow30
@adelphia.net | WOW Wonder if stock will go up? Wow I wonder if my 500 shares of Adelphia might go up now??
BTW: I love my Adelphia service!! | |
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ColdFiltered
join:2005-01-25
Atlanta, GA | Who get's what customers? I want to know which of the two companies will get the Georgia franchises so I can start a mailing campaign to get HDTV into my home. | |
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GlobalMind
Domino Dude, POWER Systems Guy
Premium
join:2001-10-29
Hollywood, FL
| Re: Who get's what customers? Yea that's going to be interesting. I am in South Florida and our HOA has an agreement with Adelphia that basic cable is bundled into our monthly dues, and we get a discount to some degree on other packages.
Up till now, the HD channels ARE in the guide...but we can't get them since we don't have the HD stboxen yet. This is the one better thing I see with at least Comcast, they roll these things out faster in my experience.
I have no idea what to expect with TW since I've never had their service.
I know Comcast has a good bit of service down here, in other areas so it could be that's where we go.
K.
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Greevin
@12.34.x.x
| From the Time Warner news release:
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DISTRIBUTION OF PRINCIPAL PROPERTIES
To Time Warner
From Adelphia
New York (principally Buffalo)
California (principally Los Angeles)
Ohio (principally Cleveland)
Carolinas
Maine (Portland-Bangor)
From Comcast
Dallas
Los Angeles
Cleveland
To Comcast
From Adelphia
Florida (principally Palm Beach and Miami)
Virginia (principally D.C. area)
New England (Boston area, Hartford area, Vermont)
Pennsylvania (principally Pittsburgh area, Johnstown area and Scranton area)
Colorado Springs
From Time Warner
Minneapolis
Memphis
Jackson
Louisiana (principally Shreveport and Monroe)
Florida (principally Cape Coral and St. Augustine)
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| | supertbone
join:2002-04-04
Pleasant Grove, UT | Re: Who get's what customers? I live in the Lancaster/Palmdale area of LA county and I am glad I will not be going to Comcast!!! | |
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roamer1
sticking it out at you
join:2001-03-24
Atlanta, GA
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1 edit | My guess is that you'll see the following as well:
Adelphia -> Comcast:
Bartow/Cherokee/Forsyth Co. GA
Winder/Talmo GA
Fort Payne AL
Brunswick GA
(The first three fit very well into Comcast's Atlanta holdings and North Cobb headend, Fort Payne can be merged into the Gadsden Comcast system, and Brunswick fits with Comcast's Savannah cluster. TWC is legally barred from owning cable systems in Atlanta because TW owns WTBS.)
It's interesting that Comcast will serve all four major cities in Tennessee after the deal is done...all via acquisitions (Scripps-Howard in Chattanooga and Knoxville, InterMedia in Nashville, and TWC in Memphis.)
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compugeek
I love making my own beer.
Premium
join:2002-07-30
Pickerington, OH
 ·Insight VOIP
·Vonage
| Cable It is not anywhere close to over. The shareholders have to vote on it, the judge has to approve it... Cablevision is not out of the bidding, just the board of directors for Adelphia has approved it as the unbinding winning bid.
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natter
join:2000-12-18
Littleton, CO
| Funny Those jokers that came in and sold at&tbb to Comcast, got rich, moved on and took over Adelphia. Now, they sat back and did nothing and sold it to Comcast again.
Nice to sit back and get rich off of doing nothing.
Tirelessly.......
"Schleyer added, “Over the past two years, the Adelphia team has worked tirelessly to transform our business, enhance our operations and improve our competitive position. Today, Adelphia has a first class network, dramatically improved financial performance with complete transparency, and improved service offerings – and this transaction clearly recognizes the tremendous value of the Adelphia enterprise.”" | |
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staticx57
join:2002-01-24
Toms River, NJ
clubs: | Sucks for you guys that are now part of comcast. I feel bad for you. | |
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jmn1207
Premium
join:2000-07-19
Reston, VA
 ·Verizon FIOS
| Re: Sucks for you guys that are now part of comcast. said by staticx57 :I feel bad for you. The Adelphia customers are a long, long way from being Comcast customers. There isn't a "now" involved in this yet and there won't be for quite some time even under the best circumstances for the fastest conversion...provided that there will even be a conversion. For all we know, the only change might be who the check is sent to. | |
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stillersfan
@comcast.net | Yep really sucks for people that now have availability to services such as on-demand. Problem is Adelphia (as supposedly advanced as they are) never upgraded their HE's past the 500 MHz so no vod yet for you old adelphia areas!!! | |
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Wireless Major
@199.72.x.x
| Oh great. My 99% solid Adelphia service is gone :( Ugh. I live in F'Burg, and my area would presumably go to comcast. With all the problems my friends have been having with comcast (service stability, etc) my 99% solid Adelphia will probably go to hell in a hand basket. I can probably thank comcast to oversell my area even more than adelphia has =\ | |
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| mglunt
join:2001-09-10
Fredericksburg, VA
·Verizon FIOS
| Re: Oh great. My 99% solid Adelphia service is gon F'Burg here too. When I moved in 9 months ago, there were some problems, but a system upgrade fixed them. I now see 4-5Mbps+ down and 800+ up, and I am not even on premier.
At the very least, comcrap will jump prices... especially on the premier package, which I planned on getting once the promo I am on now ends. I have HSI only, so the premier is only a $5 increase. | |
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| | EO50
join:2005-01-23
united state | Re: Oh great. My 99% solid Adelphia service is gon I used to live in F'Burg too. Too bad Cablevision didn't get them. They offer faster speeds for cheaper prices and are in the process of upgrading to DOCSIS 2.0 to make the network even faster. | |
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Zoroaster
join:2005-03-17
Studio City, CA
| Not to mention.... This will all likely take quite some time before we Adelphia customers become absorbed into TW/Comcast customers. I'm sure there's a lot of legal stuff and logistical stuff that will have to be worked out before we see any changes. Perhaps even a full year; who knows?
Good or bad, it will be interesting to see what happens. | |
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ExitWound
Porsche Snob
join:2001-12-13
State College, PA
·Vonage
1 edit | Local TV Changes? How does something like this impact television? Here in central PA, out of the 70 channels they offer, only ~10 are in stereo, there are signal anomalies on every channel in every tv in town, there are no HDTV options, and digital is a joke. Will someone else having the network mean that we'll see some upgrades? Or will it just mean that the lineup will change and we'll be stuck with the low quality picture and sound that we've had for a decade now?
As for powerlink, it's rock solid with nearly 100% uptime. Few interruptions and fast speeds even in peak hours. | |
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roamer1
sticking it out at you
join:2001-03-24
Atlanta, GA
clubs:
| Re: Local TV Changes? said by ExitWound :How does something like this impact television? Here in central PA, out of the 70 channels they offer, only ~10 are in stereo, there are signal anomalies on every channel in every tv in town, there are no HDTV options, and digital is a joke. Will someone else having the network mean that we'll see some upgrades? In all likelihood, yes -- once Comcast takes over, they will probably merge your area into a more modern headend nearby. (One of the benefits of cable companies owning "clusters" of service areas is that they can consolidate headends, which makes it easier to offer advanced services. Here in Atlanta, Comcast has been able to go from a dozen or so headends to just three over the past decade or so.)
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hurl8
Premium
join:2003-01-21
Ontario, CA
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Authority
Obama Biden '12
join:2000-03-29
Beverly Hills, CA | Finally! I couldn't be happier that the Adelphia deal is done! I know that a LOT of people like myself will consider going back to cable. | |
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| jstack
join:2001-12-09
South San Francisco, CA | Re: Finally! 1.8 million cable subscribers are going to be quite upset. | |
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Johkal
Cool Cat
Premium,MVM
join:2002-11-13
Happy Valley
clubs: | Whatever!!! Who ever is my new provider; I could give a Goat's Ass!!
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bhorow
join:2004-05-17
Forest Hills, NY
| Comcast/Time Warner Nothing surprises me, but we are talking about 6 months or more before any changes occur, most changes are probably minor, because there not going to overhall the existing equipment, except to make improvements. Cable rates aren't likely to change for adelphia customers within 12 month period, and you will have more additional services, forthcoming.
Lets put it this way this way there isn't much you can do as a customer. Cablevision should have been looking to make a big long before if they were real serious about adelphia.
Cablevision real asset is not its cable network anymore its programming. The problem with its programming is that it has created an adversarial relationship with cable operators, and needs to work in better partnership.
The deal is done, companies like comcast/Time Warner Cable don't make press announcements, there is no way that cablevision would ever be able to handle such a big aquisition, and vendors trust Time Warner Cable to handle this deal. | |
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adelphiasux
Hope Tw Is Better
join:2003-06-29
Horseheads, NY | ........ Just heard on the local Buffalo, NY news it was for 13 million. I have heard a bunch of different figures, I wonder what the truth really is.
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PaulieORF
join:2001-04-15
Southington, CT
| Comcast to have 29% after all is done I just read an article that states that after all of the properties have been swapped, and all the new people have Comcast, that Comcast will control 29% of the nations cable systems. I keep hearing people saying that they will have more than the maximum of 30%, and that the deal will not be approved because of it. Well, you people are wrong. Comcast was smart enough to do the math and work everything out perfectly. I don't think they'd go through all of this only to break the rules and be told it can't go through. Comcast, you cannot arrive here in Waterbury, CT soon enough! | |
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csnewbie
join:2001-02-12
Atlanta, GA | Re: Comcast to have 29% after all is done stupid comcast
wish they had time warner in my area | |
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| biochemistry
join:2003-05-09
92361 | Where can I read this article? | |
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orldf
@157.93.x.x | rate increases forthcoming Just nice to know we'll be seeing rate increases in 6 months as it was really the customers who just bought Adelphia... | |
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turdswurth
@verizon.ne | Re: rate increases forthcoming so long Adelphia | |
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Johnny Canal
@washington1.d | will they extend service? will this mean that areas now just beyond the Adelphia lines but within the franchise area, e.g. rural areas, will this mean that Comcast will extend service to these areas?? | |
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| sd70mac666
join:2003-06-05
Saint Albans, VT | Re: will they extend service? Damn I'm in Vermont and I'm going to be getting Comcast? | |
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Mercedc2
join:2004-10-31
Miami, FL
| so i live in MiaMi Does this mean im gonna lose my 10MB download and my 1 ~ 2 MB upload ? cuz i know for sure comcast sux...
If i lose that i will leave adelphia and call all my niggaz which are about 150+ customers from diff companies to cancel up and move to EarthLink | |
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NintendoDS
join:2006-09-12
Merrimack, NH | NH Adelphia Customers I live in Merrimack, New Hampshire and as of right now I'm still an adelphia customer as far as I know. But, I'm just wondering who will take the Adelphia customers in Merrimack, New Hampshire and when will it happen? | |
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Adelphia Deal Done
