Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks

[William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson () gmail com>]

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.