Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps
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Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps
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#2It's not exactly the crime of the century to want to charge you a fee for upgrading service.
Re: Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps
#3On a side note, what do you do at 105mbps that you cannot do at 50mbps?
Unless maybe you have a multi user household.
I pay $50 for 5mbps. It's highway robbery.
Re: Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps
#4It's not exactly the crime of the century to want to charge you a fee for upgrading service.
you need more competition on isp's on US. I live in Mexico, every year I get more Mbps on my plan because the competition is pushing for better plans at lower prices... I just receive a letter from my company notifying how many Mbps now I have, and why is better to stay with them...
Re: Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps
#5It's not exactly the crime of the century to want to charge you a fee for upgrading service.
It seems like they are charging $250 for unplugging and plugging in a modem. Sure, most people will pay it without thinking twice. But is it really necessary to inflate our already high broadband costs?
Re: Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps
#6It's not exactly the crime of the century to want to charge you a fee for upgrading service.
you need more competition on isp's on US. I live in Mexico, every year I get more Mbps on my plan because the competition is pushing for better plans at lower prices... I just receive a letter from my company notifying how many Mbps now I have, and why is better to stay with them...
US ISPs seem to offer faster speeds every year too. But I of course agree that they generally need more competition. Verizon finally lit up my block for FiOS and I'm getting faster speeds at 25% less cost.
Re: Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps
#7On a side note, what do you do at 105mbps that you cannot do at 50mbps? Unless maybe you have a multi user household. I pay $50 for 5mbps. It's highway robbery.
I have 150mbps down. I download files at 18mB/s, vs. 6mB/s.
Re: Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps
#8It's not exactly the crime of the century to want to charge you a fee for upgrading service.
I supposed there is no morality in the world that say you shouldn't be able to charge 150 bucks or whatever price for 5 megabits, but the quality of life would improve immensely with high bandwidth.
That is, the difference between slowly browsing the textual internet forever on dailup and watching khanacademy youtube videos with a crappy DSL connection. Imagine that everyone are on gigabit connections? What would that entails in term of increased well-being and economic propserity to humanity?
Cable companies don't seem to care about anybody but themsleves. Not the future of humanity, not the employees, not the concept of enlightened self-interest, not even the rich. They only care about MONEY.
Re: Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
you need more competition on isp's on US. I live in Mexico, every year I get more Mbps on my plan because the competition is pushing for better plans at lower prices... I just receive a letter from my company notifying how many Mbps now I have, and why is better to stay with them...
US ISPs seem to offer faster speeds every year too. But I of course agree that they generally need more competition. Verizon finally lit up my block for FiOS and I'm getting faster speeds at 25% less cost.
For most areas, that is wrong.
I have been in the same area for a decade, and got offered 8mbps for an increased cost 8 years ago. That's it.
Why? Because there is no competition.
Re: Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps
#10It's not exactly the crime of the century to want to charge you a fee for upgrading service.
It seems like they are charging $250 for unplugging and plugging in a modem. Sure, most people will pay it without thinking twice. But is it really necessary to inflate our already high broadband costs?
So? I guess it would be better if they renamed it an "activation fee"?
Seems likely it's just an example of price discrimination: people who need more than 50 Mbps are probably willing to pay a premium to get it.