Internet Essentials offers 15Mbps download speeds for $9.95 per month — a full $40 lower than what that service usually costs. These customers also pay no installation fees, and no contracts or credit checks are required for service. Comcast’s only requirements are that applicants must not have any outstanding debt less than a year old owed to Comcast, and not have had service with the provider within the past six months.
However, before August 6th, there were only five ways to qualify. Parents of children in the National School Lunch Program were eligible, as were community college students in Colorado or Illinois. Low-income veterans, seniors, and HUD housing recipients could also apply.
I’m currently blogging from a library because my EXPENSIVE Comcast internet is out. Not kidding.
wtf??? I pay over $200 a month to the congressionally-mandated Comcast monopoly for Internet & cable service (they throw in a phone line … which I do not use)
where do I sign up?!?!? … oh, right …. not in my service area
kinda like the free, or low-cost gubmint ‘services’ … free for thee, but not for me … after all, I’m the one paying
we, the producers, are keeping score … no justice, no peace, muthafucka’s
charter gives me 30mb for $14.99 tax included, standalone, can stream youtube-tv through 2 roku on 2 tvs at same time, don’t know why, but works for me
But I still can’t get cable without CNN and Al Jazeera on it.
What’s cable?
My old ISP finally kicked me out because I’m way out in the sticks and it was just darned inconvenient for them to ‘keep me in focus’. The office dweller that terminated me suggested signing up with Viasat. I drove to town and burned their fucking building to the ground.
A friend who lives in the neighborhood just got rid of Comcast and has Roku. I need to check into it.
Just part of the big push to get the low income lofos online and into social media before the election. Get as many of them tuned in to the narrative as possible. Google already told us what to expect.
@AA – I think Roku is just a device, not a service provider. Really more of an interface. I have a smart TV that is Roku-based, I use it to access Hulu, Amazon, Tivo, and regular TV. But as long as you have some sort of smart interface you can stream those – for example I can access the same resources through my Tivo set.
I have Spectrum (formerly Time Warner), the only other options are Verizon and satellite options. Definitely need less government control and more capitalism & choices!
One of the happiest days the year before I moved from MN to MI, was the day I turned in my Comcast cable box and told them to shove it.
Well, no, I didn’t say that, BUT I WAS THINKING IT!!
Those in rural areas may want to look at getting a wi-fi hotspot (Netgear NightHawk is one that is available). You are basically getting signal from a cell tower and in many cases you can get pretty decent speeds (better than 15 Mbps and I’ve seen some better than 35 Mbps on youtube videos). Cost for the equipment is about $200 to $250 but you own it (should last for years if it works as far as signal goes).
You have to have a data plan (you would want one that is unlimited and unthrottled with no data caps) that costs in the neighborhood of $65 a month (you might have one with a smart phone already that would qualify). The devices use a SIM card that is specific to various providers (such as AT&T, Verizon, etc.). This would depend on what provider has decent cell service in your neck of the woods.
You can do an internet search for “NetGear NightHawk in rural areas” or wi-fi hot spot in rural areas” or something similar and there are several videos with real users that give pretty good info. And there are antennas that can be used to get better signal. There is a good deal of info available now on the web.
Might be worth consideration for people that can’t get “cable” internet or decent speeds from DSL type services from the phone companies or the notoriously slow satellite services.
Around these parts we call ’em Comca$h. Make no mistake about it this is a subsidized program that allows them to wrap their lips around the big government tit to get paid so I fully expect to see some over-charging (the government) scandals!
I’ve been stuck with wireless broadband for years, no relief in sight. I use a Cradlepoint router and a Verizon USB 4g modem. Costs me $20 a month after the initial expense of over $300. It works but it’s frustrating because I am 5 miles from one antenna and 7 from the other. It’s also ironic because I talked the County Supervisor into having Verizon install the towers on County property, and then moved to this place 😃 I get about 15MB/sec until I use 15 GB, and then get throttled back to 600k. My wife kills it in a couple of days binging streaming video. Streaming still works but video quality goes down. May look at the Nighthawk.
I told cumfast to go pound sand years ago and have NEVER regretted it. Since I live just about 50 miles away from boston one HD antenna ($20) and one signal booster ($15) and I can get up to 30 channels for FREE just like it was 1970 all over again.
As far as the interwebs go I use a local interwebs company that sells me a fiber optic connection at 100Mb per second and a house phone line for about $100 a month.
With fiber and interwebs you do NOT need to watch stupid anti-american programing squeezed in between endless hours of mind alerting commercials because the internet offers limitless choices of entertainment for FREE.
I have not turned on my TEE-VEE for months and when I do it is to pop in a VHS tape and watch a movie that was set in a time when being an american with american values was a good thing…. unlike today’s “entertainment” that only consists of HATE, FAGS, and demoncrat talking points.
“I’m currently blogging from a library because my EXPENSIVE Comcast internet is out. Not kidding.”
Better make sure you’re home between 8 and 1
@cslamer, 100tu’s
(If only they limited the propaganda to fags and hatred.)
It’s still…Comcast.
I owed them money once – tough economic times for me. I paid the bill off. They kept the bill (that I had paid) on my credit report for TWO YEARS after I paid it. Never getting a penny from me again.