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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.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @09:51PM (10 children)
I currently get 150Mbps from them for $34.99/month. I am not going to sweat them giving someone with TV a bump to 250
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @09:59PM
*if* you have a nice router they top out at about 300mb per second wireless. Past 300 you are probably wasting money if you use wifi.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday May 01 2018, @11:22PM
Pretty much this.
People who pay the most get free upgrade from their provider. News at 11.
I'm glad it's raining right now on my cheap Nissan, since I don't get free car wash from the Audi dealer.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @01:41AM (1 child)
$35 a month? I've got the slowest speed available and the cheapest package that Comcast will give me is like $77 a month. I would have ditched them by now, but I live in a building that only has Comcast service.
What we really need is some laws that guarantee that everybody has access to more providers.
Also, Comcast remains capped, so the extra speed doesn't really do people any good as it just means they hit the cap sooner.
(Score: 2) by Apparition on Wednesday May 02 2018, @03:08AM
I know, I'm jealous. The cheapest Comcast offers here is $52 per month, just for 15 Mbps. Next up is $70 per month for 60 Mbps.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday May 02 2018, @06:10AM (5 children)
I think you mean 150 mbps for 40 bucks. That's the going rate for Comcast. Don't feel bad, most people misunderstand megabits and Megabytes. The internet providers count on it to hype their product.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Wednesday May 02 2018, @10:00AM (4 children)
I'm pretty sure that he didn't mean 1.5 bits per second. That's slow even by Comcast standards!
sudo mod me up
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @10:33AM
If you are going to be pedantic, you need to be correct.
150 mbps is 0.15 bits per second.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @04:34PM (2 children)
Comcast provides me 30mbps down and 10mbps up for $39 a month.
Nothing anywhere near the numbers mentioned.
Not megabytes per second -- 30 megabits, so perhaps 3.6Megabytes per second if nothing is happening between me and the data, the weather is perfect, kids are at school and there is no one in the neighborhood staying home from work.
Typically I see 3 Megabytes per second at night as a peak rate. Sometimes 3.1 megabytes per second.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Thursday May 03 2018, @12:22PM (1 child)
sudo mod me up
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @10:47AM
And once again you fuck it up.
30 mbps is 0.03 bits per second. The GP was wrong by a capitalisation of the letter m, and everyone knew what he intended anyway.
You are wrong by a numeric factor of ten you pedantic dipshit.