They will always get your money one way or the other. 😀 Sent from my iPhone
> On Jun 13, 2019, at 5:29 PM, Bill Rising <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> 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: >> <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=J4FreT-XG7A5mev6rj5dOMGQoA6Fq_Wz17b5qOpO1Yg&s=kjkpU45KNGMJJEuQrmx2XNd233a3oi2uS76XmxDm7O0&e= >> > >> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> > > _______________________________________________ > 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=J4FreT-XG7A5mev6rj5dOMGQoA6Fq_Wz17b5qOpO1Yg&s=kjkpU45KNGMJJEuQrmx2XNd233a3oi2uS76XmxDm7O0&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/>
