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> 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.
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