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Anon8a42f

@rr.com 31 recommendations Anon8a42f Anon Competition If only we had competition in most areas...

Packeteers

Premium Member

join:2005-06-18

Forest Hills, NY ·Verizon FiOS

·Charter

Asus RT-AC3100

(Software) Asuswrt-Merlin

21 recommendations Packeteers Premium Member another perspective let's face it - isp only service is the most profitable segment of the coax/fiber industry.

unless you are calling support each week, your connection isp costs total under $10/mo.

other company are happy to simply get that and try to increase their last mile penetration.



what comcast does is provoke you back into using their video because they own the content,

thus it's more profitable for them than their competitors.



verizon does not own any content, and has given up on trying to make people buy their video,

they have admitted to their shareholders that they barely break even on video content delivery.

thus it would rather focus on the major profit center that is isp only by up selling you to 1gig.



bottom line is comcast is only being a dick because our legislative idiots let them own content.

Anon649b4

@104.129.196.x 15 recommendations Anon649b4 Anon Time for Taft Hartley AT & T and Comcast should be busted up like what happened to the original American Telephone and Telegraph. Where is the FTC when you need them?

davidc502

join:2002-03-06

Mount Juliet, TN 11 recommendations davidc502 Member When I was on Comcast I haven't been with Comcast for going on 3 years now, but at one time I tried to drop down to just internet. However, Comcast wanted I believe another 25 dollars a month over what I was paying for Internet. By jacking up the internet price it really didn't make sense to drop the TV portion of the package.



It's just a silly game they play to get you to buy what they want you to buy.



Jacking up prices to keep you in a bundle is a symptom of a bigger problem. SkiBumJ799

join:2007-02-02

Dallas, TX 8 recommendations SkiBumJ799 Member Competition Competition doesn’t seem to be a motivator for Comcast in Houston. I have AT&T Fiber 1gb/s for $85/mo (no cap) and the best Comcast offer is $110 for 400mb/s (1TB cap) despite advertising all over town than 1gb/s is available.

Anon61123

@198.98.53.x 6 recommendations Anon61123 Anon Just as I have stated ZERO SUM. quote: For years the company has slowly been deploying arbitrary, confusing, and punitive usage caps and overage fees as part of an effort to make cord cutting more expensive. More simply: as users trim back expensive video packages, Comcast's reaction is simply going to be to charge you more for broadband. Just I and others have stated, ZERO SUM game.



$$$ = x + y, where $$$ = (x-z) + (y+z)



HSD will be hit with higher prices and usage caps. Just I and others have stated, ZERO SUM game.$$$ = x + y, where $$$ = (x-z) + (y+z)HSD will be hit with higher prices and usage caps. mxyztplk

join:2003-07-24

San Jose, CA 4 recommendations mxyztplk Member Yes, Comcast is Truly Safe by Effectively Becoming an Expensive Dumb Pipe I mean, what could anyone do then?



The states might impose net neutrality and other regulations on internet service, but there is absolutely no way that they could impose price controls.



And the federal government has never imposed regulations on cable services.



So, Comcast is very safe in raising their internet prices as high as the sky and...



Oh, wait... joe1234560

join:2001-01-29

Des Plaines, IL 4 recommendations joe1234560 Member just wait for IPTV / X1 only to force gateway rent fees even for internet on just wait for IPTV / X1 only to force gateway rent fees even for internet only subs.

Economist

The economy, stupid

Premium Member

join:2015-07-10

united state ·AT&T FTTP

4 recommendations Economist Premium Member Comcast was very early with the penalty fees, pricing up DBS competitors It was LONG ago that they first instituted the $15 (how dare you not have our horribly crappy CATV) fee on HSI-only customers while there was no such fee imposed on CATV-only customers (so Comcrap apologists, don't bother calling it a bundling discount). shmerl

join:2013-10-21 3 recommendations shmerl Member Caps should be made illegal and Comcast should be broken apart. They should have never been allowed to buy NBC. ISP monopolists should be forbidden to also own content / media business. zod5000

join:2003-10-21

Victoria, BC ·TELUS

·Shaw

2 recommendations zod5000 Member It was pretty obvious: Given how much carriage fee's are, just for a cableco to license and redistribution TV channels, as much money as they were making, the bulk percentage was going to licensing the channels. For every dollar they close in cable revenue, they probably only have to increase internet revenue buy a fraction of it, to make the same profit.



I can see it with my cableco here. The money's in the internet connection. No licensing fee's for that, no one else they have to share the revenue with. You know it's bad when cable is getting less attractive to the cableco's.. lol

wistlo

join:2003-01-04

New Orleans, LA 2 recommendations wistlo Member ARPU Aaarrrr Poo.



ARPU.



Average Revenue Per User. It's not a pirate phrase, at least in the sword and eyepatch sense. ARPU is what the companies measure and set as a benchmark to maintain. It's a major metric that's often discussed by executives during employee meetings.



If they don't get it from the bundle, they will raise the freestanding broadband price AND impose caps. That's happened to me with Cox. I have neighbors who get the same internet speed and a bundle and pay a dollar less per month than me (but they are also on promotions that will expire). Ostracus

join:2011-09-05

Henderson, KY 2 recommendations Ostracus Member Attrition wars. quote: For years the company has slowly been deploying arbitrary, confusing, and punitive usage caps and overage fees as part of an effort to make cord cutting more expensive. And the rest of the world aren't idiots. The reaction to constraints are changes, and efficiency. From better audio/video codecs, to Netflix re-encoding their entire library. Never-mind there's already a technological solution to anything that needs to be measured and charged. So till our connections get down to dial-up speeds the war will go on. And the rest of the world aren't idiots. The reaction to constraints are changes, and efficiency. From better audio/video codecs, to Netflix re-encoding their entire library. Never-mind there's already a technological solution to anything that needs to be measured and charged. So till our connections get down to dial-up speeds the war will go on. RH777

join:2018-03-06

United State 2 recommendations RH777 Member AT&T Does the Same AT&T does the same. I had DTV and Internet 50. Internet 50 was $30 by having DTV. As soon as I cut DTV, my Internet 50 went up to $70/month. I got a 1 year deal from Comcast for Internet Blast (100Mbps) for $61 and change including the modem rental and taxes. Double the speed and still less than AT&T? Works for me. I replaced DTV with PS Vue and I'm happy with that. I'm hoping WOW makes it to my town or a 3rd provider.

YukonHawk

join:2001-01-07

Patterson, NY 2 recommendations YukonHawk Member What a CROCK of hot steaming Bull$hit........"best value to consumers," What value????? By charging $90 phucking dollars to plug in a modem????