[133874] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Sun Dec 19 16:36:59 2010
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:36:49 -0500
From: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20101219002722.E12271CC26@ptavv.es.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/18/10 7:27 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> From: "Robert E. Seastrom"<rs@seastrom.com>
>> ... I can see a future where you buy internet from
>>> the cable co and they give you the basic cable TV channel lineup at
>>> "no charge" but in reality, you're paying for the cable internet what
>>> you used to pay for both cable internet and TV.
>>
>> Here in NoVA (Comcast former Adelpha territory), the future is now.
>>
>> I used to have internet-only service (there is little on TV that I
>> care about). A bit over a year and a half ago, we added basic cable
>> to the service. Total additional cost per month to go from
>> Internet-only to Internet-plus-TV-bundle (same speed) was about $4.
>
> Hmmm. Better than the situation in my Comcast area. Internet w/o any
> cable costs MORE than basic cable (i.e. over the air + PEG). ...
Likewise, here in Michigan I helped a brother setup Comcast, and discovered
that the charge for Internet + Basic Cable was about $2 per month *cheaper*
than Internet-only.
