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In the major metros Comcast has increased speeds regularly and also offers hundreds of wifi hotspots that customers can use. In many of these areas they also co

In the major metros Comcast has increased speeds regularly and also offers hundreds of wifi hotspots that customers can use. In many of these areas they also compete with Fios of course.

shimshim 12y ago
I live outside of Nashville and they are now offering me 109mb for about $90 a month. My current speed has continued to increase as well, about 2 smaller MP3 songs per second.
- drzaiusapelord 12y ago
  In my neck of the woods is 105mbps for $90 as PROMOTIONAL pricing. The real price is almost twice that. Is $90 your real price?
  - shimshim 12y ago
    Well I suppose it is a promotion, a 1 year deal for $90.
mkautzm 12y ago
OK, but talk is cheap. You offer 100Mb service* for $115/month. Google is offering 1Gb for less than that. My local ISPs that operate on just over $10,000,000 annually are offering double that for less than half the price to people that live in areas with population densities that'd rival the most desolate parts of Siberia. Talk is cheap. Start actually doing something. Either offer copper at prices that can compete or better yet, put your money where your mouth is. If Comcast is worried that Title II is going to decentatvie infrastructure spending, prove me wrong and actually build out a fiber infrastructure while Title II isn't a thing. Use some of that 7 billion[1] a year you see in the black and start building some real infrastructure instead of just sitting on copper for as long as you possibly can. *When it's convenient. God only knows how oversold Comcast's service is. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast
- rayiner 12y ago
  Holding up Google as a reference point is really disingenuous. It's not clear Google is making any money on Google Fiber, and so far they've only decided to enter a few municipalities where they've refused to agree to the sorts of regulatory constraints that Comcast is subject to in those same places. There's a real question here: could Google keep shareholders happy if Fiber was a standalone business?
  - mkautzm 12y ago
    > There's a real question here: could Google keep shareholders happy if Fiber was a standalone business? This right here is a really good reason why Internet service needs to be Title II'd. If the primary concern surrounding what is now an incredibly vital piece of the communications infrastructure is, 'how do we keep shareholders happy', then our priorities are fucked.
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    - tptacek 12y ago
      The primary concern of trucking and air transport concerns are also shareholder welfare. Should we nationalize transportation?
      - pessimizer 12y ago
        Or highways?
      - tedunangst 12y ago
        The same could also be said of just about every grocery store. Even small mom-and-pop stores (or perhaps especially them) are concerned with shareholder welfare, more so than "What will happen if Ted runs out of pickles this week?".
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maxsilver 12y ago
> Comcast has increased speeds This is sort of a half truth. Comcast has increased some speeds a little bit. But most of those speed increases are lies. For instance, Comcast claims it's moving to deliver 500mbps service ("half-gigabit") in this letter. You might assume this is meant to be comparable with Google Fiber and other local Fiber initiatives. It's not. Google Fiber is $70/month. Most local gigabit providers are $50-$100/month. Comcast's "half fiber" is $400/month. (see http://www.comcast.com/505 http://www.comcast.com/505). Half the speed at 400+% higher cost. This isn't competition, this is Comcast lying about availability. It lets them claim that they deliver fast service, but that "the market doesn't want it".
- gnopgnip 12y ago
  Google fiber does not provide universal access. Even in the communities they service they are very selective about which areas are included.
  - leccine 12y ago
    Lat time I checked Google was not an ISP for consumers. They do this to generate more competition against the ISPs forming a trust against competition. Example: "The Justice Department has reached out to the companies as it investigates whether the cable-industry merger (CMCSA:US) is anticompetitive, said the people, who asked not to be named because the review isn’t public." http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-07-11/disney-cbs-said-to-be-queried-by-u-dot-s-dot-in-comcast-merger http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-07-11/disney-cbs-said-... Thanks to Goole Comcast started to do higher speed internet, it was shocking to me how customers were not interested in it but right after the Google offering the very same customers went totally mad and they suddenly needed faster internet. Who understands these very complicated matters anyways?!?!
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Rooster61 12y ago
Can't help but think you are a shill. This is obviously corpratized fluff, and you have only commented on two threads, both of which deal with Comcast.
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drzaiusapelord 12y ago
>In the major metros Comcast has increased speeds They've certainly added higher tiers. I saw their 105mbps product was available in my neighborhood and called. The non-promotional price just for internet floats around $180 a month. That's a far cry from these municipal fiber shops that deliver that speed or higher AND television for less cost. This is an easy way for ISPs to say to regulators, "Look we offered it but no one ordered it." Of course, no one wants to pay $180 for internet, especially when google fiber goes for $70 or so. I think their 400mbps product is around $400, which is insane.
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- res0nat0r 12y ago
  I've been paying $99/month 105Mb for about 1.5 years now.
fred_durst 12y ago
I smell an astroturf
fnordfnordfnord 12y ago
Comcast, most cable companies have DOCSIS 3 infrastructure, and depending upon network layout can increase speed by merely "flipping a switch". They protect profits by metering bandwitdh to the minimum possible units, and they protect themselves from competition by offering better service only when competition arrives in a market.
dasil003 12y ago
You're obviously new on the job so I'll just tell you what your incompetent trainers should have taught you: No human being not under the employ of Comcast know what Comcast is doing "in the major metros". People who use Comcast only know of their little neck of the woods, so when you go out to do your astroturfing campaign you need to make sure that you appear to be a real human being by talking about a specific location which you personally have experience with.
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In the major metros Comcast has increased speeds regularly and also offers hundreds of wifi hotspots that customers can use. In many of these areas they also compete with Fios of course.

shimshim 12y ago

I live outside of Nashville and they are now offering me 109mb for about $90 a month. My current speed has continued to increase as well, about 2 smaller MP3 songs per second.

drzaiusapelord 12y ago
In my neck of the woods is 105mbps for $90 as PROMOTIONAL pricing. The real price is almost twice that. Is $90 your real price?
- shimshim 12y ago
  Well I suppose it is a promotion, a 1 year deal for $90.

mkautzm 12y ago

OK, but talk is cheap. You offer 100Mb service* for $115/month. Google is offering 1Gb for less than that. My local ISPs that operate on just over $10,000,000 annually are offering double that for less than half the price to people that live in areas with population densities that'd rival the most desolate parts of Siberia. Talk is cheap. Start actually doing something. Either offer copper at prices that can compete or better yet, put your money where your mouth is. If Comcast is worried that Title II is going to decentatvie infrastructure spending, prove me wrong and actually build out a fiber infrastructure while Title II isn't a thing. Use some of that 7 billion[1] a year you see in the black and start building some real infrastructure instead of just sitting on copper for as long as you possibly can. *When it's convenient. God only knows how oversold Comcast's service is. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast

rayiner 12y ago
Holding up Google as a reference point is really disingenuous. It's not clear Google is making any money on Google Fiber, and so far they've only decided to enter a few municipalities where they've refused to agree to the sorts of regulatory constraints that Comcast is subject to in those same places. There's a real question here: could Google keep shareholders happy if Fiber was a standalone business?
- mkautzm 12y ago
  > There's a real question here: could Google keep shareholders happy if Fiber was a standalone business? This right here is a really good reason why Internet service needs to be Title II'd. If the primary concern surrounding what is now an incredibly vital piece of the communications infrastructure is, 'how do we keep shareholders happy', then our priorities are fucked.
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  - tptacek 12y ago
    The primary concern of trucking and air transport concerns are also shareholder welfare. Should we nationalize transportation?
    - pessimizer 12y ago
      Or highways?
    - tedunangst 12y ago
      The same could also be said of just about every grocery store. Even small mom-and-pop stores (or perhaps especially them) are concerned with shareholder welfare, more so than "What will happen if Ted runs out of pickles this week?".
      - 12y ago

maxsilver 12y ago

> Comcast has increased speeds This is sort of a half truth. Comcast has increased some speeds a little bit. But most of those speed increases are lies. For instance, Comcast claims it's moving to deliver 500mbps service ("half-gigabit") in this letter. You might assume this is meant to be comparable with Google Fiber and other local Fiber initiatives. It's not. Google Fiber is $70/month. Most local gigabit providers are $50-$100/month. Comcast's "half fiber" is $400/month. (see http://www.comcast.com/505 http://www.comcast.com/505). Half the speed at 400+% higher cost. This isn't competition, this is Comcast lying about availability. It lets them claim that they deliver fast service, but that "the market doesn't want it".

gnopgnip 12y ago
Google fiber does not provide universal access. Even in the communities they service they are very selective about which areas are included.
- leccine 12y ago
  Lat time I checked Google was not an ISP for consumers. They do this to generate more competition against the ISPs forming a trust against competition. Example: "The Justice Department has reached out to the companies as it investigates whether the cable-industry merger (CMCSA:US) is anticompetitive, said the people, who asked not to be named because the review isn’t public." http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-07-11/disney-cbs-said-to-be-queried-by-u-dot-s-dot-in-comcast-merger http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-07-11/disney-cbs-said-... Thanks to Goole Comcast started to do higher speed internet, it was shocking to me how customers were not interested in it but right after the Google offering the very same customers went totally mad and they suddenly needed faster internet. Who understands these very complicated matters anyways?!?!
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Rooster61 12y ago

Can't help but think you are a shill. This is obviously corpratized fluff, and you have only commented on two threads, both of which deal with Comcast.

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drzaiusapelord 12y ago

>In the major metros Comcast has increased speeds They've certainly added higher tiers. I saw their 105mbps product was available in my neighborhood and called. The non-promotional price just for internet floats around $180 a month. That's a far cry from these municipal fiber shops that deliver that speed or higher AND television for less cost. This is an easy way for ISPs to say to regulators, "Look we offered it but no one ordered it." Of course, no one wants to pay $180 for internet, especially when google fiber goes for $70 or so. I think their 400mbps product is around $400, which is insane.

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res0nat0r 12y ago
I've been paying $99/month 105Mb for about 1.5 years now.

fred_durst 12y ago

I smell an astroturf

fnordfnordfnord 12y ago

Comcast, most cable companies have DOCSIS 3 infrastructure, and depending upon network layout can increase speed by merely "flipping a switch". They protect profits by metering bandwitdh to the minimum possible units, and they protect themselves from competition by offering better service only when competition arrives in a market.

dasil003 12y ago

You're obviously new on the job so I'll just tell you what your incompetent trainers should have taught you: No human being not under the employ of Comcast know what Comcast is doing "in the major metros". People who use Comcast only know of their little neck of the woods, so when you go out to do your astroturfing campaign you need to make sure that you appear to be a real human being by talking about a specific location which you personally have experience with.

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