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posted by janrinok on Tuesday May 01 2018, @08:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the free-providing-you-pay-more dept.

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow4408

Comcast keeps losing TV subscribers, but it has a new way to fight cord cutting.

As streaming video continues to chip away at cable TV subscriber numbers, Comcast is making some of its Internet speed increases available only to customers that pay for both Internet and video service.

Last week, Comcast announced speed increases for customers in Houston and the Oregon/SW Washington areas. The announcement headlines were "Comcast increases Internet speeds for some video customers."

Customers with 60Mbps Internet download speeds are being upped to 150Mbps; 150Mbps subscribers are going to 250Mbps; and 250Mbps subscribers are getting a raise to 400Mbps or 1Gbps.

Comcast says speed increases will kick in automatically without raising the customers' monthly bills—but only if they subscribe to certain bundles that include both Internet and TV service.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/comcast-wont-give-new-speed-boost-to-internet-users-who-dont-buy-tv-service/


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by SomeGuy on Tuesday May 01 2018, @09:28PM (2 children)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Tuesday May 01 2018, @09:28PM (#674322)

    This is why we need more (or in some cases, any) internet options other than those provided by a CABLE company.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @09:32PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @09:32PM (#674324)

    Try SprinTyMobile. I hear its the fastiest.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday May 01 2018, @10:44PM

      I was somehow convinced to sign up for T-Mobile's business phone service. This sets me back $70/month; was I swindled by the conniving T-Mobile store salesmen?

      I have unlimited 4G; they claim there's no data cap. I wouldn't really know because I've never bumped up into a data cap.

      Mostly I use my 4G for gmail, web, facebook - which includes videos, facebook messenger and videos from websites of ill repute.

      Facebook Messenger supports voice and video calls. My lady and I mostly use voice but we've had a few video calls; they always worked well.

      If I bring my Acer with me during my day's travels I enabled my iPhone's Personal HotSpot in the iOS Settings App.

      The HotSpot works really well but will turn itself off if my Internet traffic is idle for five minutes or so. All I have to do switch the HotSpot back on is to visit the Personal HotSpot page in the Settings app. I don't need to actually _do_ anything in Settings, I just visit that page.

      There's more I was going to post but I totally spaced it. Maybe I'm having another migraine.

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