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Over-deliver, you're anti-competitive. Over-charge, you're being a monopolist. Provide what everyone else provides at the price they provide it, you're colludin

Over-deliver, you're anti-competitive. Over-charge, you're being a monopolist. Provide what everyone else provides at the price they provide it, you're colluding. Businesses are trying to make a buck. The people coming up with and enforcing regulations are also just trying to make a buck.

fweespeech 11y ago
But I wouldn't want to watch Comcast's service because its crap. So how are they "over delivering" as you put it?
- skylan_q 11y ago
  I'm not following. People are getting their bandwidth allotment AND additional services. Your contempt for them doesn't mean that they're anti-competitive.
  - fweespeech 11y ago
    I am not getting the service I care about. I am getting crapware.
anon4 11y ago
If Comcast ever over-deliver, I'll eat my hat.
- oldmanjay 11y ago
  I get more download and upload speed than my package includes, and I am a Comcast customer. use salt, hats are gross.
Dylan16807 11y ago
It's anti-competitive to use one business to over-subsidize another to get market share. Bundling IE, anti-competitive. Dropping the price below cost in a town that's getting fiber from someone else, anti-competitive. Comcast improving price or speed or caps over their entire network is what everyone wants. And if the caps had anything to do with infrastructure costs, they should be doubling every year or two. Instead we're up from 250GB in 2008 to 300GB in 2015.
thatcat 11y ago
Its direct manipulation of your behavior through economics. What if your water company started pretending to be out of water then offered free car washes where they had placed ads playing 24/7? Luckily, the engineers in charge of most utilities are concerned with the technical challenges of meeting the market level of demand, not inventing awful business models that no one wants.
- skylan_q 11y ago
  "What if your water company started pretending to be out of water then offered free car washes where they had placed ads playing 24/7?" Then they'd be lying.

fweespeech 11y ago

But I wouldn't want to watch Comcast's service because its crap. So how are they "over delivering" as you put it?

skylan_q 11y ago
I'm not following. People are getting their bandwidth allotment AND additional services. Your contempt for them doesn't mean that they're anti-competitive.
- fweespeech 11y ago
  I am not getting the service I care about. I am getting crapware.

anon4 11y ago

If Comcast ever over-deliver, I'll eat my hat.

oldmanjay 11y ago
I get more download and upload speed than my package includes, and I am a Comcast customer. use salt, hats are gross.

Dylan16807 11y ago

It's anti-competitive to use one business to over-subsidize another to get market share. Bundling IE, anti-competitive. Dropping the price below cost in a town that's getting fiber from someone else, anti-competitive. Comcast improving price or speed or caps over their entire network is what everyone wants. And if the caps had anything to do with infrastructure costs, they should be doubling every year or two. Instead we're up from 250GB in 2008 to 300GB in 2015.

thatcat 11y ago

Its direct manipulation of your behavior through economics. What if your water company started pretending to be out of water then offered free car washes where they had placed ads playing 24/7? Luckily, the engineers in charge of most utilities are concerned with the technical challenges of meeting the market level of demand, not inventing awful business models that no one wants.

skylan_q 11y ago
"What if your water company started pretending to be out of water then offered free car washes where they had placed ads playing 24/7?" Then they'd be lying.