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Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Before and After Comcast TV and Internet.

I had Comcast Cable TV with Tivo and Internet for 10yrs or so. In May 2018 I checked my Comcast account and found out that the previous contract was expiring on Jun 22. So, I called Comcast and asked what I can get. I was told that without contract I would pay $185 which is $60 more for 150Mbps down, 6 Mbps up internet and cable TV with 3 cable cards for my Tivo. I was asked to call 1 week before contract expires to see what I can get and of course they want to add land line or mobile phone or home security bundle and 2yr contract and so on.

I decided to look for alternatives and tried Youtube TV for 1 week. It had pretty much all the channels we were watching and couple of channels like Comedy central and PBS available for streaming. What I found out was 3hrs of streaming Youtube TV per day uses about 16GB. If there are 2 users, the 1TB limit of Comcast would be reached.  I canceled Cable TV and subscribed to Youtube  TV for $40 per month unlimited DVR 3 simultaneous streams with 6 users on the account. No garbage taxes like Franchise fee, Broadcast fee, sports fee etc adding up to $17 by Comcast.

I asked Comcast what they would charge for 100MBps down 5 Mbps up no data limit and the answer was $90 1st yr, $105 2nd yr with 2yrs contract and then $125. I signed with ATT Fiber internet 1000MBps down 1000MBps up no data limit $80 1 yr contract $90 after that and no taxes. I even got

I completely canceled Comcast. No looking back. I am not signing any more contracts. It is about time Comcast and ATT realize that all they are are internet service providers and if they want to provide TV, it has to compete with Youtube TV or others like Sling TV no contract, cloud DVR.