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And where i live in Texas (not a small city by far), I pay $90 for 200/20 (with my own modem) from spectrum (was TWC). The big change with spectrum has been re

And where i live in Texas (not a small city by far), I pay $90 for 200/20 (with my own modem) from spectrum (was TWC). The big change with spectrum has been removal of any tiers above 100/10. The 300/20 tier introduced about 5 years ago apparently still exists but you have to call and request it and there is something like a $200 connection charge, and it goes for about $110 a month. About half way across the city there is some competition, and you can get Gigabit from a couple different providers (for about $100), but the service is really isolated to a few neighborhoods and even companies like AT&T won't even tell you which neighborhoods have the service if you happen to be looking for a house/apartment. What is silly, is that there are a bunch of fiber providers in texas covering the little towns. For example hill country telephone coop https://www.hctc.net/resources/ https://www.hctc.net/resources/ (which actually has service maps) has a symetric gigabit plan for $200 in a bunch of towns with populations less than 10k..

maxxxxx 9y ago
We now have Spectrum too. It seems the trend is now to only super fast and expensive plans but the cheaper plans are being eliminated. The cheapest one is now $70 with nothing cheaper. I don't need 300/20 at home and really don't want to spend $70.
- prirun 9y ago
  I had Everyday Low Price internet service (3Mbit down, 1Mbit up) with Time Warner, before the merger. I just did some reading online, and at least in some areas, Spectrum is still required to offer ELP service as a condition of the merger, though they do not advertise it; you have to specifically ask for it. One comment said they are only required to offer it until March 2019. Dunno if that's true or not. Spectrum raised the price (with no notice) to $19.95 a few months ago - a 33% increase for this plan. In fairness, they also raised the speed prior to that around 10%, which of course was heavily advertised. The great thing about ELP, and the reason I switched to it, is I got sick and tired of calling TWC every year to renegotiate my rate. They bumped my 30/5 service from $55/mo to $65/mo, I called 3 months in a row, they said they took care of it, gave me a $10 credit a month or two, but kept billing the new rate. Their final offer was $59.95/mo. I just got sick of talking to them and went to $14.95/mo. The great thing about ELP is that it is a non-promotional rate, so I didn't have to call them anymore. The hilarious thing is, after I switched to ELP, I got offers every week to upgrade to 30/5 for $49.95/mo, but I didn't care anymore at that point. 3/1 service still allows streaming Netflix and Amazon TV at 720p, though with the recent Net Neutrality neutering, I don't know how long it will be before Spectrum inserts artificial delays to make 3/1 unusable for TV streaming. If they do, I've had it and will switch to reading books for entertainment. Spectrum's lowest-priced non-promotional service here (Louisville, KY area) is $65/mo. To get $40/mo, you have to bundle with phone or TV, getting you back up over $60/mo. To get $30/mo pricing, you have to bundle with both tv and phone, getting you up to $90/mo. Who wants a landline these days? It's just a pricing gimmick.
  - maxxxxx 9y ago
    I also have the 3/1 plan for $15. It's great value but I wouldn't mind a little more speed. But the next level they have now is $70 which is too much for what I need. I bet a lot people who would be fine with around 20MB have a more expensive plan because that's all that's offered.
  - StillBored 9y ago
    That was the game with TW. Cut your service to the bare minimum, then they would offer you some year long special at 1/2 the cost of the regular rates. You could even do this over the phone most of the time. I would call and tell them the $80 they were charging me was to much that I wanted Internet Basics (or whatever they were calling the deal they had made with the city to offer an extremely inexpensive tier). Frequently they would initially deny such a thing existed, then they would transfer me to someone who would be able to setup the $10 a month plan. From that point they would make all kinds of incredible offers. They would even send me mailers for basic cable for free if I added home phone service for $12 a month (or some such). 12 Months later they would start to slowly raise the rates (I guess trying to apply the boiling frog theory) and the offers would cease. Apparently spectrum doesn't want to play these games.
Godel_unicode 9y ago
> ...and even companies like AT&T won't even tell you which neighborhoods have the service... Slightly off topic, but I always work around this by picking an address in the neighborhood and trying to sign up for service.

maxxxxx 9y ago

We now have Spectrum too. It seems the trend is now to only super fast and expensive plans but the cheaper plans are being eliminated. The cheapest one is now $70 with nothing cheaper. I don't need 300/20 at home and really don't want to spend $70.

prirun 9y ago
I had Everyday Low Price internet service (3Mbit down, 1Mbit up) with Time Warner, before the merger. I just did some reading online, and at least in some areas, Spectrum is still required to offer ELP service as a condition of the merger, though they do not advertise it; you have to specifically ask for it. One comment said they are only required to offer it until March 2019. Dunno if that's true or not. Spectrum raised the price (with no notice) to $19.95 a few months ago - a 33% increase for this plan. In fairness, they also raised the speed prior to that around 10%, which of course was heavily advertised. The great thing about ELP, and the reason I switched to it, is I got sick and tired of calling TWC every year to renegotiate my rate. They bumped my 30/5 service from $55/mo to $65/mo, I called 3 months in a row, they said they took care of it, gave me a $10 credit a month or two, but kept billing the new rate. Their final offer was $59.95/mo. I just got sick of talking to them and went to $14.95/mo. The great thing about ELP is that it is a non-promotional rate, so I didn't have to call them anymore. The hilarious thing is, after I switched to ELP, I got offers every week to upgrade to 30/5 for $49.95/mo, but I didn't care anymore at that point. 3/1 service still allows streaming Netflix and Amazon TV at 720p, though with the recent Net Neutrality neutering, I don't know how long it will be before Spectrum inserts artificial delays to make 3/1 unusable for TV streaming. If they do, I've had it and will switch to reading books for entertainment. Spectrum's lowest-priced non-promotional service here (Louisville, KY area) is $65/mo. To get $40/mo, you have to bundle with phone or TV, getting you back up over $60/mo. To get $30/mo pricing, you have to bundle with both tv and phone, getting you up to $90/mo. Who wants a landline these days? It's just a pricing gimmick.
- maxxxxx 9y ago
  I also have the 3/1 plan for $15. It's great value but I wouldn't mind a little more speed. But the next level they have now is $70 which is too much for what I need. I bet a lot people who would be fine with around 20MB have a more expensive plan because that's all that's offered.
- StillBored 9y ago
  That was the game with TW. Cut your service to the bare minimum, then they would offer you some year long special at 1/2 the cost of the regular rates. You could even do this over the phone most of the time. I would call and tell them the $80 they were charging me was to much that I wanted Internet Basics (or whatever they were calling the deal they had made with the city to offer an extremely inexpensive tier). Frequently they would initially deny such a thing existed, then they would transfer me to someone who would be able to setup the $10 a month plan. From that point they would make all kinds of incredible offers. They would even send me mailers for basic cable for free if I added home phone service for $12 a month (or some such). 12 Months later they would start to slowly raise the rates (I guess trying to apply the boiling frog theory) and the offers would cease. Apparently spectrum doesn't want to play these games.

Godel_unicode 9y ago

> ...and even companies like AT&T won't even tell you which neighborhoods have the service... Slightly off topic, but I always work around this by picking an address in the neighborhood and trying to sign up for service.