RCNCast
It looks like this past week my apartment building’s Comcast lease expired or at least the part that required the building to only stick to Comcast. Since last week to yesterday, I have received three flyers/letters from RCN with some great deals to switch over to subscribing to TV and Internet through them. Finally, effing capitalism is working.
The cable guy is coming to my place later today, here’s hoping things just “work”, I really don’t want any hassle with Internet/TV, which I’ve had every time, except for this last time when I signed up with Comcast two years ago. I even called Comcast, saying RCN is giving me an amazing deal, please match it or even come close to what they’re offering. I think they shaved off $6/month from my bill for the next 6 months.
Called RCN yesterday, set up an appointment for today, and will now be saving ~$30/month. The only slight bummer? My download speed will go from 12Mbps to 10Mbps (big whoop) and my upload from 2Mbps to 1Mbps (this one kinda hurts). Guess I’ll just have to use a more stringent QoS setting in my router now for my VoIP landline, which I don’t mind if it saves me from Comcast’s raping prices.
I hate monopolies.
Verizon needs to get on the ball, they’re deploying their sexy FiOS outside of Boston, only in the suburbs. What the hell? Boston is a tech hub and Verizon is being a dick about not expanding within the city. Supposedly the city has repeatedly asked for deployment negotiations as well.
on May 28, 2009 at 2:51 pm
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Hi!
We hate to see you go. If you haven’t gotten installed yet, I’d like to see if I can get you a better deal than the $6 less a month you were offered. Email our team at We_Can_Help@cable.comcast.com. We’ll see what we can do.
Kind Regards,
Melissa Mendoza
Comcast Customer Connect
National Customer Operations
We_Can_Help@cable.comcast.com