[Price] Comcast Price Adjustments for Broward/Miami-Dade - Comcast XFINITY | DSLReports Forums

As expected.
Nothing is free and those speed increases was just a bone. And there is no way to go back and save 5 bucks. After all they do need to increase there revenue. But at least lower tiers had a speed increase. At least that is something.

I live in Palm beach county & my bill shows the same increase.

 
Similar to, if not the same, price increases we're seeing here.

Except your Performance goes up to $70 per month, around here Performance is $75 for 25/5mbps. We had the increase from $65 to $70 a few months back.

What speed increases are you referring to? Internet Performance Starter is still at 10 Mbps, will that be increased in the near future? It seems awfully slow.

Pretty much the same increases here in the Chicago area. The only difference I see is that the broadcast fee goes up from $7.00 to $7.75, and no change in Limited Basic.

I remember when Performance Internet was only $42.95 for so many years, from 1.5M up to around 12M, then they started the major price increases.

Limited Basic (OTA + PEGs) is typically one of the only rates that a franchise agreement can specify (everything else is a value added service and is commonly outside of the franchises authorities ability to regulate), and goes through a different process for increases. Of course, the locality can also control the franchise and PEG fees, but they typically are not willing to reduce their "freebies".

Me too, although I remember when it was formerly ATTBI @ 10M/1M and then reduced to 1.5M after Comcast snapped them up ~2002/03.

What is a 'Seasonal Convenience Plan' fee? A fee to put your service on suspension for a few months?

Yes, while keeping the equipment (and your phone number and email address) for later reactivation. It can be a useful service for some to avoid having to cancel, and then reactivate service(s).

I noticed the Blast speed upgrade will be higher than the Gigabit. Wondering how that works out if I switch them?

Last I checked, those are additive (blast to extreme to gigabit are all independent kickers (and you can't skip the middle kickers)). But every market may be different.

Basically for all of the snowbirds who come to South Florida in the winter. Although at $8 per month per service it seems like it would be cheaper at this point to just cancel and pay the reactivation fee if you aren't living here for 6-8 months out of the year.

Makes me even gladder that I went to just internet service a year ago. How sweet it is !!

It was the mandatory Broadcast Fees that was the deal breaker for me. I have an antenna, and I already get the broadcast stations for free. WTF would I "pay" for them??

I have DirecTV with Comcast Internet.

Frankly, I'd rather have Comcast just increase internet rates and speeds instead of them breaking up the internet into packages without Net Neutrality.

Luckily, where I live I can choose between Comcast HSI and AT&T Fiber.

Battered wife syndrome .. doubtlessly said a million times. Don't think the Marketeers don't appreciate your pathology.

I got an increase in my internet speed today from 75/10 to 100/10. The 10dl went to 25 & 25 went to 60. A small consolation for the price increase.

I's not like it's a profit center; broadcasters are demanding higher and higher per-subscriber fees to allow retransmission of their signals; DISH is the only provider that at least tries to fight these when they come along, but when they have to drop the channels enough people complain that they inevitably have to pay more also and pass the increase along to the consumer as do all other providers.

Personally I'm happy many providers have started breaking out what they have to pay to broadcasters as a separate fee so that you can see at a glance that broadcasters are doing this.

Personally, I run an antenna as well but many people cannot due to placement with respect to broadcast towers.

Do people really pay these standard rates? Can't you just call up and request their new customer pricing or tell them you are cancelling? I've done that two years in a row.

I called and the best they could do was lower my bill by $7/mo. Two colleagues of mine experienced the same. Comcast is not competing as heavily on discounts as they use to.

Performance Internet for new customers is $30 a month for 12 months. After a year it jumps up to $70 a month. Who would agree to pay that unless you had no other option?

Did I also mention that the 7 dollar discount required a 24 month agreement?!

Could be location/situation specific. But the other reality is all the MSOs have stated that rate discipline (i.e. fewer discounts) are their future intention. In order to actually achieve it will take some interesting changes in the current industry practices, but it is what they say they want to move towards.

Huntsville Al just received the price increase notices. Roughly the same as other areas.
What is different here is we currently have a city backed roll out of Google fiber in progress (about 20% complete and moving far faster than other GF deployments.) AT&T has stepped up with a massive roll out of Gig fiber for internet and TV now available through much of the city and county (previously rate limited DSL and no TV). WOW cable has rolled out Gig internet (still uncapped.)
A year ago Comcast was price competitive and had better internet speed than other providers. Not anymore, the competitors have caught and passed them up quickly.
We are getting the same price increases as everyone else, but these increases are going to make Comcast offerings extremely noncompetitive in this area.

Same rate increases for Palm Beach, Martin County (Stuart), Indian River County (Sebastian), and Portions of Okeechobee County.

Here are the rate increases for Houston.

Good thing I switched out in March 2017 away from Comcastic all in order to stop paying for their already over priced $88 a month Blast. I would like to point out that the new price increase is a six percent increase which now results in an absolutely truly stratospheric $93 a month price just for Comcast Blast for anyone still subscribing to that plan.

Thankfully I have already moved and switched to living and renting a place that actually has Verizon Fios Gigabit service; as it’s simply just getting plain old ridiculous to realistically consider Comcastic for ones high speed broadband internet service.

Furthermore, these same kind of actual unrelenting greedy money grabbing ripping off of it’s Comcastic subscribers occurs every year annually. The truth of the matter in fact is that Comcastic has in fact proudly proclaimed that it has increased its broadband internet speeds seventeen times in seventeen years; but it has also steadily increased its corresponding frequently recurring exponential price increases also as well to match.

Moreover its high time Comcastic subscribers stand up and say “enough is enough” already and put their foot down and take a stand to prevent oneself from being repeatedly violated with repeated annual yearly price increases without question or rational reason even as the cost of high speed broadband is going down over time.

Similarly I have also cut off any and all other potential cable and telephone services other than Verizon Fios true high speed Gigabit rated 945Mbps download and 905Mbps upload speeds; in order to try and bring the high speed broadband internet only bill to a truely more reasonable much more rational pricing criteria for the long term.

Yes I have actually also have chosen using the latest up to date modern Obihai 200 ATA Voip adapter(2x as fast as Obihai 100 generation) in order to get the actual ongoing monthly cost down to absolutely free with no additional costs in fees and/or taxes.

Using ones Google Voice free Voip service in combination with ones landline cordless telephone; works great in delivering free unlimited minutes high quality telephone talk time and when one also utilizes the Obihai 1062 Gigabit IP phone for only $150 on amazon; one can also get a much higher audio quality corded landline Class "D" quality audio amplifier driven telephone also as well.

Now any of the above described and explained alternatives and choices is vastly far more technically superior performing to anything that Comcastic currently offers now in terms of pricing and value for the money; now with Verizon Fios one’s internet latency, jittering and audio quality “noise” artifact issues are basically non-existent as compared to Comcastic.

Eventually current Comcastic subscribers are going to wake up to the fact and actually realize that they are truly in fact paying for to much for rather substandard broadband internet service pricing along with absolutely horrendous Comcastic poor customer service as well.

Now if one truly wants to break free from ones Comcastic annual price increases and get the “last laugh and joke” at Comcastic’s expense; one should definitely consider canceling any and all Comcastic services other than broadband services only and if one can switch to Verizon Fios at all cancel any and all Comcastic services entirely.

Comcastic broadband internet customers have been taken for granted and ripped off every year while getting clearly substandard high speed internet performance at way to high of a price premium; I have taken the first step into the bold new world of the 21st century using all digital high speed affordable Gigabit rated high performance broadband internet service along with the highest quality branded name level of performance internet technical products currently available on the market today.

Now there is no way one should be realistically be paying over ten percent of one’s monthly rent for rather mediocre substandard internet performance service any longer with Comcastic; just say to Comcast “thanks but no thanks” and that this time around you will not be participating in any more further ongoing annual Comcastic price increase shenanigans any longer; instead alternative call up and notify Comcastic to tell them that they have been resoundingly officially "fired"; and that its been long overdue!

Current savings tally out to $408 annual Comcastic savings which of course have been directly reinvested into three branded name Gigabit network switches and two branded name remote wireless access points; along with two alexa smart speakers, accompanied by three wireless bluetooth speakers; which are all cost free thanks to cutting the cord with Comcastic.

Moreover next year one can definitely look alternatively forward to once again spending at least another $408 annually in Comcastic savings to alternatively upgrade ones computer network with an high performance Nvidia Shield Pro Android TV Box also as well as a Streambox Two Android TV Box to accompany it to make it one of the most versatile and powerful
high performance branded name Android TV Box combinations out in the market currently.

Unfortunately this ongoing trend is a rather disturbing one indeed and it is simply Comcastic corporate greed and avarice at work largely due to the textbook college economics 101 systematic organized monopolistic behavior of companies behaving badly without any effective local market competition simply because we have allowed them to do so without qualification and/or reservation without the proper normalizing market competition forces at work.

Cable TV providers thus will only further continue "without limit" to raise rates on internet service to directly offset the losses of every increasing frequent quarterly loss of paying cable tv customers; as the current system in place is a highly corrupted and questionable one at best unfortunately.

You, sir, are a true master of the semicolon. I read through that mess only closely enough to verify that what you puked up into the forum didn't contain a single period. Well done.

Is that how you really feel?
/sarcasm