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Salt Lake City, UT | Re: Time to downgrade, said by kataan:Guss I will be need to call Comcast an downgrade to economy internet. Already downgraded the phone to local and more and canceled TV. If they keep this crap up I will cancel everything!
Comcast Digital Voice is expensive - you can get an independent VOIP service (check the VOIP forum here) and pay far less than what Comcast wants. | |
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| | | | Re: Time to downgrade, Keep the performance package. If you downgrade too low, you wont like even browsing, it will be too slow with many www websites using flash or scripts. | |
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Greenacres, WA | Re: Time to downgrade, I live on a fixed income. I am permanently disabled. If you are volunteering, i would be more than happy to accept!, you paying my Comcast bill. Thank you  | |
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P.S. Or find a roommate, split bills. If there is only one bedroom, make the living room bedroom. | |
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kudos:4 | Re: Time to downgrade, said by chgo_man99:Switch to DSL at $15 or $20 price tag. Don't forget the $20 or so in line charges and BS Unfees!
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| | Just wait.. until comcast and NBC merge; then the rates will go up again. And imagine how much the rates for NBC content will go up for non-Comcast cable companies! I'd expect them to at least double the rates if they even offer the content. | |
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| |  NightfallMy Goal Is To Deny YoursPremium,MVM
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| Re: If I become unemployed.... said by tlylework :I do not have Comcast, but I can only imagine this means an increase for me on Uverse as well. I guess I'll be getting me a digital Antenna soon. OTA is much cheaper.
If I could only get ESPN, FSD, and other networks that show live sporting events OTA.
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| |  RobIn Deo speramus.Premium
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kudos:3 | said by tlylework :I guess I'll be getting me a digital Antenna soon. OTA is much cheaper.
Get it while you can. I know AT&T, Comcast, and the likes have lobbyists trying to get OTA taken off the air.
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| Re: If I become unemployed.... said by Rob:said by tlylework :I guess I'll be getting me a digital Antenna soon. OTA is much cheaper.
Get it while you can. I know AT&T, Comcast, and the likes have lobbyists trying to get OTA taken off the air. OTA is not going away anytime soon. The basic networks, CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox all make money off advertising OTA. They would need to sign exclusive deals that pay them through the nose to make it worthwhile to shut down OTA broadcasts.
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kudos:3 | Re: If I become unemployed.... said by Nightfall:said by Rob:said by tlylework :I guess I'll be getting me a digital Antenna soon. OTA is much cheaper.
Get it while you can. I know AT&T, Comcast, and the likes have lobbyists trying to get OTA taken off the air. OTA is not going away anytime soon. The basic networks, CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox all make money off advertising OTA. They would need to sign exclusive deals that pay them through the nose to make it worthwhile to shut down OTA broadcasts. And you think NBC will be OTA once Comcast buys them?
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kudos:3 | Re: If I become unemployed.... said by LeftOfSanity:said by Rob:And you think NBC will be OTA once Comcast buys them?
Do you really think it won't? Let's wait and see then.
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| Re: If I become unemployed.... said by Rob:said by LeftOfSanity:said by Rob:And you think NBC will be OTA once Comcast buys them?
Do you really think it won't? Let's wait and see then. OTA isn't going anywhere. Anyone stating otherwise really is "chicken little". There is no evidence it will be disappearing.
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|  pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | said by Nightfall:If you are still thinking about dropping cable TV, then call Comcast and say you are disconnecting your service. They will give you an incentive to stay. Ask my parents and the dozens of others who call into comcast every 6 months. My parents haven't paid full price for Comcast service in over 5 years.
This seems to be market-specific. A lot of people I know who've tried it actually had Comcast call their bluffs.
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| Re: If I become unemployed.... said by pnh102:said by Nightfall:If you are still thinking about dropping cable TV, then call Comcast and say you are disconnecting your service. They will give you an incentive to stay. Ask my parents and the dozens of others who call into comcast every 6 months. My parents haven't paid full price for Comcast service in over 5 years.
This seems to be market-specific. A lot of people I know who've tried it actually had Comcast call their bluffs. Actually, its customer care specific. Comcast calls your bluff, make your disconnect date 2 weeks out because "your satellite dish will be installed then". Call back next day, get a new rep, try again.
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kudos:5 | said by pnh102:said by Nightfall:If you are still thinking about dropping cable TV, then call Comcast and say you are disconnecting your service. They will give you an incentive to stay. Ask my parents and the dozens of others who call into comcast every 6 months. My parents haven't paid full price for Comcast service in over 5 years.
This seems to be market-specific. A lot of people I know who've tried it actually had Comcast call their bluffs. The I'll quit and go elsewhere only works where Comcast knows the customer has viable cost effective alternatives like Verizon Fios. If your options are 1.5 mbps DSL & DirecTV, they are liable to call your bluff. | |
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Not in my case. They told me if I left then that's your prerogative. It wasn't until I actually cancelled service that they called me asking why I left. | |
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Grand Rapids, MI | Re: If I become unemployed.... said by hui :1080p is better
No one is broadcasting in 1080p except for a few On Demand movie channels.
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| | RE Wow, when I read that Comcast lost 275,000 customers last quarter, I couldn't believe it. I thought Comcast was doing well, especially considering I see about 10 of their commercials a day on TV (and I only watch TV a few hours a day). The only way to make these services worth it is to bundle. Even if the bundle price goes up, it will still be cheaper than getting the same services from different providers. If you downgrade completely, like to basic cable, local calling, and under 1mbps internet, then you'll probably be saving, but who wants that? | |
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| | | Re: RE said by voipnpots2:Wow, when I read that Comcast lost 275,000 customers last quarter, I couldn't believe it. I thought Comcast was doing well, especially considering I see about 10 of their commercials a day on TV (and I only watch TV a few hours a day). The only way to make these services worth it is to bundle. Even if the bundle price goes up, it will still be cheaper than getting the same services from different providers. If you downgrade completely, like to basic cable, local calling, and under 1mbps internet, then you'll probably be saving, but who wants that?
Comcast DIDN'T loose 275,000 TV customers last quarter. Comcast lost 275,000 Basic video customers last quarter but they gained 219k Digital video customers so their net loss was 56,000 video customers. This is the first quarter in a while that they actually lost video customers. They have had a steady loss of basic customers for quite some time but they have also had a steady gain in digital video customers. In the first 3 quarters of this year they have gained 1,916,000 customers (TV, HSI, CDV).
I'm not trying to defend Comcast or their rate increases but I'm tired of the news reports reporting totally false information. | |
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kudos:5 | Re: RE said by saratoga66:said by voipnpots2:Wow, when I read that Comcast lost 275,000 customers last quarter, I couldn't believe it. I thought Comcast was doing well, especially considering I see about 10 of their commercials a day on TV (and I only watch TV a few hours a day). The only way to make these services worth it is to bundle. Even if the bundle price goes up, it will still be cheaper than getting the same services from different providers. If you downgrade completely, like to basic cable, local calling, and under 1mbps internet, then you'll probably be saving, but who wants that?
Comcast DIDN'T loose 275,000 TV customers last quarter. Comcast lost 275,000 Basic video customers last quarter but they gained 219k Digital video customers so their net loss was 56,000 video customers. This is the first quarter in a while that they actually lost video customers. They have had a steady loss of basic customers for quite some time but they have also had a steady gain in digital video customers. In the first 3 quarters of this year they have gained 1,916,000 customers (TV, HSI, CDV). I'm not trying to defend Comcast or their rate increases but I'm tired of the news reports reporting totally false information. It all get confused in the press because numbers quoted in qtrly earnings reports often refer to RGUs(Revenue Generating Units) and not households. A household may have 4 RGUs(Basic TV, Digital TV upgrade, VOIP, Internet). Almost nowhere will Comcast ever publish whether they are gaining or losing HOUSEHOLDS.
So Comcast trumpets how many Digital TV upgrades they have gained or how many internet subscriptions or how many new voice subscriptions. They have been avoiding reporting that while RGUs have been increasing, they are servicing FEWER households.
It is that number that is troubling for Comcast in the long run and why their stock price hasn't risen consistently. They aren't fooling Wall St with their bragging about RGUs. If households serviced keeps dropping, RGUs will eventually start dropping as well. | |
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1 edit | Re: Not just Comcast. Yep, Got a notice last month from Mediacom.
Just the Broadcast Local package is $27.95 + Internet at $29.95
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| | But our Government says... That there is NO INFLATION....so this cannot be true...right?
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Mount Airy, MD | Re: But our Government says... said by The Grif:That there is NO INFLATION....so this cannot be true...right? Thank you. How long has the government been able to get away with this outright lie anyway?
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kudos:8 | Re: I was in Philly recently.... said by LeftOfSanity:I don't think that's really considered new anymore. Hasn't it been over 2 years now? Well, with Comcast's constant rate hikes, I'm sure they can pay off a skyscraper in 2 years...
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kudos:5 | Re: I was in Philly recently.... They don't own the bldg and didn't pay to build it. They are just the primary leasee. | |
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Warminster, PA | but they (Comcast) always cry "POOR MOUTH"... THEY ARE INTO EVERYTHING HERE IN PHILLY AREA! | |
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kudos:5 | How about with the money they saved by consolidating their workforce in Phila in 1 building and ending the leases they were paying to have office space in several other buildings. | |
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| It's not just Oregon... Internet prices are going up $5 on 1/1/11 here, and modem rentals are going up $2 on top of that. So "Economy" internet will be a whopping $47 per month if you rent a modem/router from Comcast. Utterly ridiculous. Performance will be $67 according to the new schedule ($60 without modem rental) and Blast will be $77. The price for the 50M tier is going to $115 + modem rental though (same $122 as before the change if you rent a modem).
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| said by iansltx:Internet prices are going up $5 on 1/1/11 here, and modem rentals are going up $2 on top of that. So "Economy" internet will be a whopping $47 per month if you rent a modem/router from Comcast. Utterly ridiculous. Performance will be $67 according to the new schedule ($60 without modem rental) and Blast will be $77. The price for the 50M tier is going to $115 + modem rental though (same $122 as before the change if you rent a modem).
»www.denverpost.com/business/ci_16746620
Just goes to show what lack of competition gets you. I'm sure my area will have very little changes in the way of prices. I think the modem rental fee is still $3 here. Buying your own modem seems to be the only way to go for you guys. | |
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| | Ok Wow if all would stop whining, if you don't like Comcast, just SWITCH to FIOS..... it's REALLY SIMPLE! | |
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1 edit | Are you really this stupid? Not everyone has an alternative. Fios is in some very limited areas, and other than those limited Fios areas, Comcast is the only cable tv for large areas around here. It's them or digital ota, if they get any reception at all.
People in rental property might not allowed to mount dishes on the buildings, and while some have made their own concrete mounts, they might not be able to point the dish in the correct direction without something blocking the signal at their back deck. There's also property out there where the property owners have refused fios installs, and only let people choose Comcast. | |
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1 edit | comcast who? 20+ year comcast customer who got increasingly sick of the exorbitant & frequent comcast rate hikes. we just moved to a new home & are enjoying verizon fios which gives us faster internet & better hd tv for less money (rate locked for 2 years) than the greedy ogres at comcast. | |
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Charlotte, NC | Hmmmm..Employees Hmmm I wonder if any of the low-level employees who work the phones and take all the backlash are the beneficiaries of any of these increases? NOPE! $0.25-$.0.50 yearly increases sounds more like it.
So where does all that money go then, you might ask? Rather WHO gets all the money?
But yet the companies always say without the low-level employees, they can't survive...lmao!
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I've been out of work for a while and the $75 a month wasn't cheap but we could handle it, now that it's a little less than double that, it's not even an option. Goodbye Comcast, you lost another one. | |
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