[clue-talk] Comcast Business - pretty good short term offer

[Dan Poler]

This is a pretty sweet deal - Normal price for 8m/1m is $160/mo when I
looked about two weeks ago. Shoot me the referral information off-list,
if you don't mind -- I may get this for home...

I had a nice chat with a Comcast guy over the weekend about FTTH/FTTP (I
used to be in the industry, FWIW). He said they're not going to do it
until they see what happens to Verizon from a business standpoint.
Verizon has incurred a metric ton of debt in putting all that fiber out
there; he made it sound like their hope is to let them take on the debt
and eventually buy the networks from them, or something similar. Given
the billions Comcast invested in getting to hybrid fiber-coax in the
90's, I doubt they'd invest billions now to get the last mile to fiber.

I've only lived out here for a year and a half, but it seems Qwest is
the last to do ANYTHING. :)

dap



On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 17:40 -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> The Comcast Business division (you know, the way you get multiple static 
> IP's from Comcast and can run servers, etc...) is offering for a very 
> short time a deal:
> 
> $59/mo 6m/768k with burst to 12m/1m
> $89/mo 8m/1m with burst to 16m/1m
> 
> Static IP's:
> 1/$4.95
> 5/$9.95
> 13/$19.95
> 
> 3 year commitment required.
> 
> With the 3 year commitment, installation is free.
> 
> I didn't find out when it ends, but of course they always tell you 
> "soon!".  (LOL!)
> 
> Just thought there might be some folks on the local lists that would be 
> interested.  Pricing is very bad after the promotion, so... you'd have 
> to do some shopping again later on...
> 
> (And pray that someone decided to start trenching in FIOS over at Qwest 
> and that your neighborhood was first in line?  GRIN... keep dreaming...)
> 
> They're also offering a $50 referral bonus, so if you're thinking about 
> it, let me know and I'll send ya whatever reference number they need or 
> just put you in touch with the sales rep I was talking with.
> 
> Have loved FRII/Qwest transport for a long time, but those speeds are 
> pretty hard to resist.  I guess I'll give it a try and report back to 
> the lists how it goes...
> 
> A friend in Indianapolis reports that he gets the above pricing 
> month-to-month from Comcast with no commitment and he's never seen the 
> speed drop below his burst speed... he always runs at the higher rate, 
> but Comcast is getting their butts kicked by FIOS out there.
> 
> Bring on that kind of competition here in the West!  :-)
> 
> I don't really want to deal with Comcast, but...
> 
> Nate
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Dan Poler, RHCE
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Red Hat, Inc.
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