[PLUG] Interesting Comcast Experience

["Jason Wertz" <JWERTZ@dccc.edu>]

I'm not sure if this helps but I just did it by accident and it may be a
viable way to reduce your cable modem costs. I cancelled my cable modem
a few months ago because I thought I was moving and really didn't plan
on spending too much time online at home during the summer. Summers over
and I decide to reconnect to Comcast and I haven't moved. I call and
they give me the introductory rate of $19.95 a month until 2004 ($42/mo
after that). That's pretty insane because I'm not a new customer and
really wasn't expecting to get this rate. Now I'm stuck in a moral
dillema and the little devil on my shoulder is telling me to see if this
works again next summer depending on the promotion.

Also, I'm not sure if this was discussed before but the netshare program
from speakeasy looks really cool. http://www.speakeasy.net/netshare/

In my opinion, $20 is a good price point point for broadband (I'd even
except slower speeds, like a Comcast Lite with basic DSL type
speeds...my thought is they could use a traffic shaper to prioritize
traffic), it's unfortunate none of the providers think so. I guess
they'd rather have 1 million subrscribers at $42/mo then 2-3 million at
$20/mo. Less support calls for them and more profit.

Oh well, thought this might be useful.

Jason Wertz
Senior Technology Specialist / WebMaster
Delaware County Community College
ph: 610-325-2771
fax: 610-325-2820
http://learn.dccc.edu/~jason





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