Do you know about some secret plan that is not advertised somewhere? Go to www.comcast.com, click on Shop / High-speed internet, type in 8601 Thomas Ave S, 55431, which is my block in Bloomington, and you will see that the cheapest package is $45 per month, but that requires a $15 per month cable TV subscription. If you try to order it without cable service they charge you $60 per month. I know, because that is what I pay. I don't watch TV so the cable TV is irrelevant for me -- I have to pay $60 per month for marginal broadband service. And I have to struggle to keep it at $60 per month because everytime I call Comcast, even for a minor question, they try to upsell me to a more expensive package. If there is some secret promotional code get broadband for $25 per month on my block, please let me know. For now, I'm under the thumb of the Comcast/Bloomington City broadband monopoly. Curits On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Scott Dier <scott at dier.name> wrote: > Residential service is available for less than $60 a month without video, > there is a 1mbps/384k tier available. I believe its ~$25/mo. > > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Curtis Griesel <cwgriesel at gmail.com>wrote: > >> We can't get DSL in my area of Bloomington because the phone >> infrastructure is too old. Comcast has a monopoly on broadband service, and >> residential service starts at $60 per month. Of course this is not all >> Comcast's fault, the city council could take a little leadership on >> broadband access for Bloomington. But I suspect the city is in cahoots with >> Comcast because they get their community-access cable services and >> infrastructure from Comcast. I wonder what other benefits the council gets >> from Comcast that they make us continue to pay Comcast $60 per month for >> their marginal internet services, but that's the state of affairs right now. >> >> > > -- > Scott Dier <scott at dier.name> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090210/2fcbfa27/attachment.htm