I’m back with more of your favorite topic. Comcast is in the news again for bending over their customers. Read this story at Multichannel.com
Comcast is increasing the monthly lease fee for cable modems to $5 nationwide — a 66% increase over the current $3 monthly fee — which the operator said is necessary to offset the cost of rolling out next-generation services such as DOCSIS 3.0. Comcast said the increases will occur market-by-market but in general will begin this fall. Alternatively, customers may opt to purchase a cable modem instead of leasing one; for example, Motorola’s SB6120 DOCSIS 3.0. but will Comcast support you if you do? NOT!!!
At the end of June, Comcast reported 15.3 million high-speed Internet customers. That means the operator would stand to generate more than $200 million in additional annual revenue from the increase in cable-modem fees, assuming at least two-thirds of all subscribers lease modems from Comcast.
Hey, who couldn’t use an extra $200 million? Those politicians aren’t getting any cheaper you know and we all can’t win the lotto. So quit complaining all of you Comcast customers. Just bend over and pay the ransome. After all, what other choice do you have?
(***hint***) C-T-C