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NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to Couch Potato
Re: Competition?
Regarding speeds and prices, cable is normally faster at higher cost (Comcast is $56.95 per month for 4M service in my area without cable TV service; I need cable TV like you need POTS), DSL is slower at lower cost (AT&T Yahoo! HSI Elite (6016/768) is now $34.99 in my area).
What other cablecos charge may be different, though. Always, you need to weigh what you are willing to pay for what is offered, and then sign up for what you consider to be the best deal for your needs/wants.
As for contracts, those were only one-year contracts; renewable only if they still have contracts when the current contract ends. For those of us on contracts, they will be in force until they expire; twelve months from when they were begun. Nearly as I can tell, after the contract the price will rise to the old month-to-month rates unless the subscriber calls in to re-rate to one of the current price plans.
In your case, if you are paying $50 for POTS plus DSL, that is actually a good price; unless you don't need POTS. But the other side of the coin is whether a cable subscriber can get "naked HSI". In Comcast land that is not possible. I'd have to pay an extra $13.41 per month for unnecessary basic cable TV to shave the HSI price down. I'd still be paying $56.36 per month, though my speed tier would be 6M instead of 4M. But I consider that option to be the same as having to pay for POTS when it is not needed.
Does Insight charge the same price for cable HSI w/o TV as for cable HSI w/ TV? Comcast surely does not.
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Couch Potato
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join:2004-08-29
Evansville, IN
 ·Insight Communicat..
| In Evansville, Insight charges $39.95/month with no other services for their HSI, $10.00 less if you have digital cable (which I already do), and $15 off if you have digital cable and phone service.
and no, I have absolutely no need for a POTS line, I've never used it and never intend to, just use my cell. | |
NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| said by Couch Potato  :In Evansville, Insight charges $39.95/month with no other services for their HSI, $10.00 less if you have digital cable (which I already do), and $15 off if you have digital cable and phone service. and no, I have absolutely no need for a POTS line, I've never used it and never intend to, just use my cell. So Insight also has "unbundling" fees. Same as Comcast, same as "dry loop" DSL.
I have no need for cable TV, so I either have to pay the "unbundling" fee to get cable HSI, or forget about cable HSI.
I do use POTS, I don't need cable TV. There is no incentive for me to switch from DSL to cable HSI.
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Norman
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