Da-Chief
03-21-2008, 11:51
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BizJournals (http://albuquerque.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2008/03/17/daily30.html?ana=yfcpc) is reporting that Comcast is now offering customers a fixed price for life without a long term contract. Qwest offers their own fixed DSL price for life plan, but it requires a two-year contract, and our users have stated that since you can often negotiate a better deal after one year, it's not particularly worth it (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/83911). At the moment this appears to be a New Mexico deal aimed at countering Qwest's offer:The service offers up to 12 megabytes of download speed (sic) with Comcast's patent-pending PowerBoost technology. It costs $42.95 per month for Comcast cable video subscribers. And, unlike other price-for-life offers, the program does not require a long-term contract, so customers won't be strapped to early termination fees.
Perhaps our resident Comcast users can mention in the comment section below if they've seen this promotion elsewhere. Comcast originally started offering two-year contracts in response to Qwest and Verizon's own long-term lockdowns, but this non-contract promotion is new.
If evil robot overlords attack, our infrastructure crumbles and the price of bandwidth skyrockets -- this could be a very good deal in 2024. Otherwise, with the cost of bandwidth consistently dropping and DOCSIS 3.0 coming, most are probably better off waiting, watching, and negotiating better deals with the company every so often.
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BizJournals (http://albuquerque.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2008/03/17/daily30.html?ana=yfcpc) is reporting that Comcast is now offering customers a fixed price for life without a long term contract. Qwest offers their own fixed DSL price for life plan, but it requires a two-year contract, and our users have stated that since you can often negotiate a better deal after one year, it's not particularly worth it (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/83911). At the moment this appears to be a New Mexico deal aimed at countering Qwest's offer:The service offers up to 12 megabytes of download speed (sic) with Comcast's patent-pending PowerBoost technology. It costs $42.95 per month for Comcast cable video subscribers. And, unlike other price-for-life offers, the program does not require a long-term contract, so customers won't be strapped to early termination fees.
Perhaps our resident Comcast users can mention in the comment section below if they've seen this promotion elsewhere. Comcast originally started offering two-year contracts in response to Qwest and Verizon's own long-term lockdowns, but this non-contract promotion is new.
If evil robot overlords attack, our infrastructure crumbles and the price of bandwidth skyrockets -- this could be a very good deal in 2024. Otherwise, with the cost of bandwidth consistently dropping and DOCSIS 3.0 coming, most are probably better off waiting, watching, and negotiating better deals with the company every so often.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Offers-Broadband-Price-For-Life-Promotion-92846)
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