A while back I talked about the price increase that Comcast warned me about in a recent letter. At the time, I thought my bill would go up from around $43 to $57 or so. Well, it turned out to be a bit worse than I thought.
Today I received my latest Comcast bill and found out that they are sticking it to me even worse than I thought. As you can see from the included copy of my bill, I am now paying $62 for a month of their high-speed Internet service.
Keep in mind that this is a very basic level of high-speed service with a speed of about 4 Megabits. That’s at the low end of speed options these days. They are offering some service that is supposed to be as high as 8 Megabits.
They also offer a service call PowerBoost, which can boost download speeds as high as 16 Megabits depending on the current level of other traffic on their system. In fact, I actually had this feature enabled on my connection for a week or two some time ago but it was shut off, since it is not available with the lowly level of service I am paying $62 a month for.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Cable TV sucks and Comcast sucks.
They can penalize me all they want for choosing to be an Internet only customer. I will keep my Dish Network forever. Unless Dish Network gives me a reason to cancel it, of course.
Wow, a $19 price increase is one hefty increase. I’ve never been great at math, but from where I come from that’s darn close to a 50% increase.
You can reference one of my old posts if you’d care to see how much my Dish Network bill went up over the course of 8 years or so.
