[Neighbors] Comcast Rant

Wed Jan 20 21:23:45 MST 2016

I simply called CenturyLink customer service and asked for a discount.  The
person who took my call give me the discount effective the next day.  I
said that I'd been a customer for a few years and was there any 'loyalty
discount'.  It was that simple.  I don't have a landline.  The only service
I have from CenturyLink is internet.  I have a 40 Mpbs connection and my
monthly bill for the next 12 months is $19.99 plus tax.  I have a reminder
set on my online calendar to call CenturyLink before the discount expires
to get it extended for another year.  No contract required.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 9:15 PM, Shirley Anderson <smander37 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Good grief!  I have Century LInk for a basic land line phone without long
> distance and internet only and am charged $80/mo!!  Tell me what you say
> when you call them as I would like a loyalty bonus of $20/mo.  I am being
> taken!    I wish the city would come up with a quick internet service for
> the city like I've read other cities do.   Albuquerque would certainly
> benefit.
> Shirley
>
> On Jan 20, 2016, at 8:22 PM, RamDas Singh Khalsa via Neighbors_nobhill-nm
> wrote:
>
> I also 'cut the cable' and 'got rid of satellite'.  I had used Comcast,
> and got very tired of their 'customer no-service' and very high prices.  I
> used DirecTV for a couple of years, but after the incentives ended, so did
> the lower prices.  I now use CenturyLink for my internet service.  I'm in
> Nob Hill and CenturyLink recently upgraded so my internet connection is 40
> Mpbs.  I call them once each year, and they give me a loyalty bonus so my
> bill is about $20 per month.  For my TV, I have an indoor non-amplified
> HDTV antenna.  I pick up all of the network channels crystal clear.  Some
> friends in the Heights have a problem in that they do not have a clear line
> of sight to the transmission towers on Sandia Peak.  I also purchased a
> Roku streaming player.  There many free channels including lots of old
> movie channels.  I love sports, so I do subscribe to Sling.  I pay under
> $30 per month and get ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, TMC, AMC, History, History 2, A&E
> and quite a few more basic cable networks.  I cannot record programs.  I am
> told that there are devices I can purchase, but I have not found the need
> to do that.
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Stephen Mullens via Neighbors_nobhill-nm
> <neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
>
>> James,
>>
>> Thanks for speaking up.  Comcast has been a source of angst for me for
>> years. I spend hours getting my cable plan right sized and affordable as
>> possible and within months they hike my rates again and I’m not talking
>> about their introductory rates. After a few years of this I cancelled
>> everything except the high speed internet, gave up cable programming, and
>> am only using Netflix and Plex and amazon for my shows (which by the way
>> the program options far exceed those of comcast).  Now my Comcast internet
>> service is constantly having problems resulting in my spending hours on the
>> phone with their tech support and many technician visits, some of which
>> they schedule incorrectly.  And my monthly rates/their prices keep inching
>> up. I’m on my second modem in two months and have been having to reset it
>> 3-6 times per day for the last 4-6 weeks.  Everytime I call their tech
>> support they try to upsell me on their bundled services (while my existing
>> service with them isn’t working!!!). Today I finally took the time to
>> explore alternative providers and found that CenturyLink can provide high
>> speed internet to the nob hill area so I signed on with them hoping to
>> never see another Comcast bill again after this last one.  Comcast sucks as
>> a company and their services are over-priced and are not reliable.  I’d
>> like to see them banned from the state (actually I’d like to see them go
>> out of business they are heartless, ruthless, and greedy).  Thanks for
>> opening the door for me to rant.
>>
>> Stephen Mullens
>>
>>
>> On Jan 20, 2016, at 6:08 PM, JRB via Neighbors_nobhill-nm <
>> neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all - hope the New Year finds you well.  Here's my rant:  Comcast
>> is charging me about $100 per month for basic service, which includes many
>> garbage channels in which I have no interest/never watch.  I have no
>> frills with my Comcast service, no HBO, no Sports Package, nothing but
>> basic service.  Recently Comcast deleted channel 64 - TCM old movies- and
>> now has deleted channel 47 - Spike old movies - from my basic service.
>> (I'm an old movies guy). Yet the Comcast monthly fee continues to go up.
>> Reason for my post:  I recently saw an article in the newspaper (I
>> believe?)  concerning Comcast and the opportunity for public comments
>> related to the renewal of its contract for  'service' in
>> Albuquerque/Bernalillo County.  I would like to provide my two-cents but do
>> not have the submission information. Can anyone out there help here with
>> that information?  Thanks.
>>
>> James R. Beam
>>
>>
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