[Magdalen] Cable internet.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

basic wifi cable with Comcast is now $39. here in Houston, basic cable TV, 
only if paired with the basic cable is 'only' $50. for a total of at least 
$90. + all those taxes that they can never tell you for sure during the 
order what they *might* be....

One can sometimes find offers, now usually of 6 months duration. They used 
to have a division that would appease short lease folks with a slightly more 
expensive but not the default to rate, but they no longer do that in 
Houston.  I once tried to figure out how my rate went above $50. for basic 
rate (after 3, 6 month periods of humoring me at a lower, but climbing rate) 
when my business (same address) had just gotten an offer in the mail (I 
office at home, biz of one) for $29. I was told: "They couldn't honor that 
offer at the same address".   After 3 long years I did go to AT&T 18 months 
ago, but they increased me from $39. to $49 at the 12 month anniversary, 
brooking no bargaining, and I'm waiting for 24 months to see what will 
happen. AND I'm getting "U Verse" from AT&T now over the same 30 year old 
telephone lines that I used for AT&T 'dial up' over the year I moved ('08). 
It is a racket.  Never have had 'cable TV'....

Lynn


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From: "ME Michaud" <michaudme at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2016 3:54 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Cable internet.

> Basic Comcast TV is less than ten  bucks in Quincy. Twenty-one in Boston
> IIRC. Same service, different zip code.
>
> Quincy is a town within walking distance of downtown Boston (per The
> Education of Henry Adams, who describes walking alongside a buckboard,
> stopping for a picnic half-way, on their annual summer trip from Beacon
> Hill to his grandparents' home). Or it's a twenty minute ride on the 
> subway
> today.
> -M
>
>
> On Thursday, August 25, 2016, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Comcast had different rates in different cities.
>>