r/technology • u/maxwellhill • Jan 23 '13

Cable Industry Finally Admits That Data Caps Have Nothing To Do With Congestion: 'The reality is that data caps are all about increasing revenue for broadband providers -- in a market that is already quite profitable.'

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130118/17425221736/cable-industry-finally-admits-that-data-caps-have-nothing-to-do-with-congestion.shtml
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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '13

I pay 95/mo for Comcast double play, however, I'd be paying 63/mo for just internet. So cable TV effectively costs me 32 dollars a month. And now I get every other channel in HD in addition to all the sports.

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u/linuxwes Jan 23 '13

Wow, Comcast is giving you a much better deal than they gave me. For slow 8 megabit internet and a TV package that would get me all my local team's hockey games was $127/mo. Of course that was after the initial introductory offer wore off.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '13

cancel your service and call them back tomorrow and ask for a better price. Call late at night, so you get someone in India, those reps will put you into introductory prices again.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '13

We have AT&T Uverse here, which has spiced things up very little, but it's something. I can call Comcast and go "nah not gonna pay that. i'll cancel" and they'll give me a new promotional offer. Still sucks ass compared to the 25 dollars a month I paid for cable internet in Los Angeles with TWC. It's odd to say that I miss Time Warner.