You can save $5/month by getting Basic I cable and cable because Basic I costs $10/month and you get $15/month taken off your internet bill if you have any cable service. So my bill per month is $58 including all taxes and fees. Curtis Griesel wrote: > Do you know about some secret plan that is not advertised somewhere? > > Go to www.comcast.com <http://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 > <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto:scott at dier.name>> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe If you see an attachment named signature.asc, this is my digital signature. See http://www.gnupg.org for more information. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090210/fb40cf50/attachment.htm