Archive for: July, 2007
July 5th, 2007
Seriously, what is wrong with Comcast?
Back in January I wrote a blog entry discussing my desire to cut back my cable television and rely more on iTunes, Netflix, Joost, etc. I asked Comcast to simply disconnect my cable TV but keep my Internet. That’s when they informed me they could do that, but they would then have to cut my bandwidth from 6Mbps to 3Mbps. Apparently they sneak that extra 3Mbps over the 60+ channels I never watch.
It is basically a strong arm tactic to get me to keep paying for cable TV. It’s shady, but what can you do when you’ve got the bandwidth blues?
So I caved and they cut my cable TV down to basic which dropped my bill from $100 a month to $64 a month.
Or so I thought. Read the rest of this entry »
Alan Graham
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