> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> Posting address: [email protected] >> Archive: >> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_macgroup-40erdos.math.louisville.edu_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=c0Uc-K7d_M17UGgFo5gQ37kU5arEYgqu5eguwK0IBTE&s=MDNOlH0BRQJuzql4MRGuuhluObono0Sd_WwzN_aI8S8&e= >> > >> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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