The big "X" just hiked my bill...

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I don't bundle, only use internet, not even a tv subscriber. I was just greeted with a $25 bill hike. A similar thing happens every year with this company. I gave them a call, (as I have in the past) spoke very nicely with the young lady and managed to get $10 taken off the new bill.

She countered by saying I will now be receiving 150 Mbps (blast speed, not constant) to which I replied that the speed upgrade isn't even a selling point with me. 25 more than suffices for my needs. Anyway, I'm stuck with the higher bill, and no way around it.

DSL is not available in my area, I am mad as heck at being held captive by a monopoly that can set the prices at whatever they feel. There needs to be more competition in the internet access arena.

:mad: mad as heck
 
I don't know what the "normal" rate is, I don't see it on their website. Right now I'm offered $49/month for internet only 150 (max burst), although I'm kinda nervous because that has been a couple of hours ago that I spoke with the rep, and no confirmation email of our agreement in sight...

When I check their website, I see that 75mbps is $79, so I shudder to think what 150 might be. :eek:

But as I stated in the original post, 25 is more than enough. We have several devices on the line now, a couple people watching videos/tv/netflix/etc. and we never have performance issues. 150 is overkill for something that is not needed...unless they make the entire internet HD quality, then I guess we will all need those super mega fast speeds.

Also, that 150 isn't continuous...in fact, I doubt if you'll ever seen anything remotely close to that in a speed test.

I'd be interested in seeing what others are paying, and for what performance?
 
After the first year of service its around 85 dollars for 45mbps internet around here. I have the choice of crappy time warner service or crappy u-verse service. I went with crappy u-verse service because time warner has a super cheap low speed 14.99 service that I use as a backup for when uverse goes down.
 
I'm paying $79 / month for 5 down and 1 up. I'd be more than happy to take the 45 for $85 deal if I could. It's either the slow DSL I have or get internet over Dish. I've even looked into bringing faster internet somewhere else and putting up a tower with some Ubiquiti's on it. Haven't given up on that idea yet!
 
We were paying $31.63 CAD (including HST) to Teksavvy for 7Mbps down/1Mbps up but just cancelled our Bell phone service and switched to dry loop, which brings the total for internet to $37.28/month. However, we cut our phone bill from $36.56 to $11.29/month with Teksavvy's VOIP ("TekTalk Basic"), which has more features than we had with Bell's basic service and has phone quality indistinguishable from Bell's. 7/1 with 150GB/month bandwidth is more than adequate for our needs.
 
I'm $55 for 3 down and .4 up, with a 50GB cap. The highest package my ISP offers is 7 down and .75 up. Dial-up is still being advertised as an option in my area.
 
Two things:

I hate it when the providers do this rate hike crap, and I get some very fast and very cheap internet compared to some of you....


I pay $165 for my TV, Internet and Phone... basic cable with some HD channels (most regular ones anyway) and I get about
150 down / 12 up on the internet.

I was getting 50 down / 8 up when they offered me to double my speed for another $10 a month. I said why not.... and ended up
with 150 down and 12 up. Plenty fast. I had a nightmare of a time getting everything set up in the beginning... customer service
was a nightmare, but after two months of fighting and all kinds of nonsensical problems everything straightened out and I can't
be happier with the internet service.
 
My service has always been Internet only. I've looked at getting upgrades but, for some reason unknown to me, they want trifecta bundle - data, voice, and TV. My provider is Charter. When I first signed up I noticed I was getting a bill that had Internet and Cable TV. When I called them up to challenge them on this there was a bunch of mumbo jumbo explanations. Personally I think they are allocating Cable TV to all customers, even if they are Internet only, to bump up the numbers.
 
I noticed recently during the Patriots game that AT&T was advertising unlimited data with their cell phones. I just barely caught the asterick and the tiny print that caps at 22 gb. lol...

I have comcast and 100 down and 20 up. I have TV and Internet only and they are boneing me for 170 a month in my area. The only other alternative I have is AT&T DSL with is extremely slow for me at my location. comcast says because I do not have their 3 way package (phone, internet, tv) I have to pay extra for TV and Internet. >:

I hate comcast.

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I'm paying $220 for standard cable (middle package), phone and internet. Soeeds are 10 up and 100 down with a 300 cap. I should be getting 200 down. Of course it's not their fault.
 
coffee,

The typical bundle is $99.00 for all three - have you checked into that? Those are awesome numbers BTW. ;)
 
Waiting for April to finally get off my contract so I lower my rates. I pay $155 right now for cable and internet. I have the blast package.

When it comes to Xfinity you just gotta have a paper trail since it becomes a he said she said crap when you ask about your discounts. I have learned that the hard way.
 
For 300\30 cable I'm paying approx $50. You do realise that this is the direct result of your government in the States not adopting a strict anti-monopoly law?. Our anti-monopoly laws over here are very strict and, as a result, we've a lot more competition in a tiny market. There are about 15 ISPs that can offer me 30Mbps + right now
 
seedubya said:
For 300\30 cable I'm paying approx $50. You do realise that this is the direct result of your government in the States not adopting a strict anti-monopoly law?. Our anti-monopoly laws over here are very strict and, as a result, we've a lot more competition in a tiny market. There are about 15 ISPs that can offer me 30Mbps + right now
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Not sure how you guys are able to pull that off. Do you have government lobbyists over there? It's a "no win" situation for us. Our corrupt politicians are in the back pocket of the corporate lobbyists, follow the money trail. Voting is a joke really, because as soon as you get a new batch of "honest" (yeah right) representatives in there, the lobby groups make them back door deals they can't refuse. So for the most part, everything stays status quo.

It's been like that here (no or minimal competition) for as long as I can remember. For each region, one phone company, one electric utility provider, one cable company.

Although with the proliferation of cell phone technology, we have more company choices, however, they all have very similar price plans, it just comes down to a matter of who has the best signal for a given area...so that's not a "choice", really. Electric company - I live in an area where we can chose our supplier for a portion of our bill, which is silly, as it becomes a constant juggling act, changing suppliers several times a year to save a few pennies. :rolleyes:

And then there is the big box stores that are slowly but surely pushing all the mom & pops out...

I'm sure here in the states, anyone in their right mind is for anti-monopoly laws...it would be nice to have real "choice" for once.

Wow, guess I went on a bit of a tangent on this one, but I'm still irritated over this deal. I still haven't received the confirmation email of our phone conversation, so for all I know I'm still on the hiked rate plan. :(
 
Charter is the cable provider here. Basic Internet (20 Mbs down/4 Mbs up - verified) is 55$/month with all taxes and access fees, etc. Their triple bundle (Internet/TV/Phone) is $99/month for the first year but jumps to $175/month after that. DSL is too unreliable around here due to being rural. My power goes out more than Charter cable outages. They been good to work with in this area.
 
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