I’ve spent the last 90 minutes waging my own personal war against Comcast… the company that we all love to hate. If it weren’t for basically needing to have high speed internet, I’d cut the cable all together. Sadly, there just isn’t a viable alternative to cable internet available here in the back woods of Cecil County and I’d end up paying as much for internet alone as I do for the cable/internet bundle.
Up until I made some changes, I had 300 channels of which I watched maybe a dozen with any consistency… something about paying for something I’m not using just rubs me the wrong way. Since my TV is usually parked on some combination of History, Discovery, and Fox News, cutting way back on the number of channels just seemed like the thing to do. As far as I’m concerned, they ought to pin a bright shiny medal on the guy who finally cracks the code on unbundling television channels. Let me pick five for $20 and I’m on it before the ink dries on the deal. Still, I managed to cut my bill in half tonight and I have the funny feeling that I’m not going to miss much even after “losing” two thirds of the channels I had been getting. With Apple TV, Netflix, and Hulu lined up to fill in the gaps, it’s possible that I’m well on my way down the road to ditching cable television completely just to make a small personal statement regarding my thoughts on the services they offer.
Is anyone else out there using Comcast for internet only? As always, feedback is encouraged.
JEFFREYTHARP.COM 
I’m in the same boat. We have Directv because Comcast service is terrible in Frostburg. No HD and limited programming. But I have no other option for cable other than comcast. Cna’t complain about the Internet service, but $63 a month for 6MB service seems like a rip off in 2012. I would get telephone from them to lower the rates, but they don’t offer that in the burg. Up until last week was also paying Verizon $35 a month for a basic pots line, but ditched them to go with Vonage for $9.99 with unlimited long distance.
Glad to hear I’m not the only one in that boat. It definitely reeks of some kind of scam. I’m paying 48.99 for 20 MB and that still feels excessive. It would jump to $65 if I ever make the jump and drop the television service.
Hello there! I work for Comcast and I will be happy to reach out to my contacts to see if we have a better pricing option for you. Please feel free to contact me if you’re interested in my help.
Thanks!
Mark Casem
Comcast Corp.
National Customer Operations
We_can_help@cable.comcast.com
Appreciate you taking an interest, Mark. I was able to talk to a CSR last night who helped me drop down to A cheaper TV plan and six months discounted Internet, so the end result was what I was what I was trying to accomplish (without giving up Game of Thrones).
If anyone is keeping track of this kind of thing, what I really would like to do, though, is have an a la carte option for people who want to select only 10 or 20 channels based on their own viewing habits instead of on the tiered/bundled model that most cable companies use. That’s my pie in the sky dream, at least.
Again, thanks for checking in.