> On Jun 11, 2019, at 17:05, Richard D. Meadows <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Call Iglou .. If you have AT&T you can probably have Iglou Internet FIBER… 
> $70 a month.  Now that is not cable tv or such.. just internet at 1Gb UP & 
> DOWN.  

After playing around with pricing, splitting the cable and the internet ends up 
being a bit more expensive. Still, I'll be sure to keep this in mind for the 
time that I have more time to figure out the best way have my cable and 
internet, too.

All this stuff drives me berserk. I wish nobody had ever happened on the 
business model of 
churn-your-customer-base-by-screwing-people-who-don't-want-to-play-games. 

Bill


> 
> Richard
> 
> And them them I sent you…  I don’t get anything from that but you’ll get 
> great customer care.  
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jun 11, 2019, at 3:47 PM, William Rising <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> This is only tangentially computer-related, because it has to do with 
>> internet services. [1]
>> 
>> My 'special offer' with AT&T ended, so my cable+tv bill went up ~$60/month 
>> to ~$190/month (!). This could be lowered to $172/month by reducing the 
>> number of worthless shopping channels.
>> 
>> I priced out 'new customer' offers from Spectrum, and found that I could get 
>> roughly equivalent service for roughly $20/month less including 'Spectrum 
>> Ultra' which advertises up to 400Mbps downloads [2]. The one problem is 
>> Spectrum says nothing about their upload speeds, and I need to know such 
>> things for work.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any idea what upload speed is? Online I found ~20Mbps. Is 
>> this right? My AT&T seems to be symmetric up and down at 60Mbps. I couldn't 
>> care less about the download speed, but the quick upload speed is nice.
>> 
>> Also: does anyone have modern negotiation techniques for trying to lower the 
>> price? In the past (or rather: up to 2017), just asking was good enough to 
>> lower the bill. Last year and this year telling the person the price from 
>> the competition did no good.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>> [1] Or rather: new requirement for life because of companies which require 
>> online bill paying.
>> [2] Of course 'up to 400Mbps' includes things like 1Mbps.
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