You call them and ask for the economy tier, it should be on the rate card you get every year (usually alongside the 'weve increased your prices mail') The website is worthless, they don't advertise half the options there. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Curtis Griesel <cwgriesel at gmail.com>wrote: > 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> >> > > -- Scott Dier <scott at dier.name> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090210/cf34c6ce/attachment.htm