Alacarte Cable and Geeks

Sun Dec 19 21:36:49 UTC 2010

On 12/18/10 7:27 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> From: "Robert E. Seastrom"<rs at 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.