Earthlink Cable

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill McGonigle" <bill at bfccomputing.com>

Nice web site Bill!

To: "Travis Roy" <travis at scootz.net>
Cc: "GNHLUG" <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: Earthlink Cable


>
> On Aug 10, 2005, at 16:34, Travis Roy wrote:
>
>> Anybody on the list use Earthlink's cable service?
>>
>> It's cheaper then Comcast.
>
> I don't actually know anything about it, but the FCC doesn't require cable 
> companies to share access to their cable plants, so it's probably a 
> branding/co-marketing thing.  So I'd bet a donut that it's the same thing 
> as Comcast if you have Comcast in your neighborhood.  Looks like $46/mo 
> from their site - we're paying $60 up here in Adelphia country.
>
> But Earthlink should have more incentive to compete in a 'naked cable 
> modem' world than the guys who sell TV programming - I think part of my 
> $60 bill is a tax for not buying video service.

I ran into that with Comcast. I was buying their "Basic" television service 
for $6/month and paying close to $60 for internet service. I then switched 
to "Standard" television service ($45/month) and they reduced my internet 
service to $45. It so happens that Verizon will sell you DSL in my 
neighborhood for $30/month but of course the assumption is that you have a 
POTS line and that tends to run up to $50/month. Since Comcast was running 
at least 3 times faster than DSL (I'm about 8,500' from the DCO), I stuck 
with Comcast. I also use Vonage for all my in-house calling and that runs 
around $25/month but is basically unlimited for the US and Canada. I have 
relatives in Canada so being able to dial Canada and have an unlimited 
calling plan is nice. It's also nice to be able to call anyone in the US and 
not pay per minute too...

No free lunch I think...

-Alex

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