Comcast COE credit change (and other pricing changes)

It’s not the same as you are forgetting the remote rental.

 

Are you saying we go from ($2.50) to $5.00 for 1 primary cable card.
That's a $7.50 increase.

 

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My NEW RATE CARD is dated 12/20 and reflects the changes mentioned. If you're a Comcast/Xfinity customer your 'most current' rate card should be available from your account information page.

 

Here in New England, the Broadcast Fee went from $10 to $14.95 and Sports went from $8.25 to $8.75.
$23 for Local Channels and one sports channel! I get more locals with my antenna for FREE!

And, the interesting thing about the Customer Owned Equipment (COE) credit is that they were just recently offering a LOWER price for TV and with faster Internet, taking away the COE credit. So they have essentially taken away the credit they are now increasing.

This is why I just dumped cable TV. At least there is still a good deal for the cheapest Internet $49.95 for 25Mbps. (No fees or taxes.)

 

the rate card from our market is a bit different:

with a multiple product discount listed individually (my triple-play actually has an even bigger discount than listed here, it was a (grandfathered) competitive offer vs. wow):

 

Nice, that means I'll be getting two cable cards for free. First one for my Tivo is free and my HDHR Prime card will be free after $10 credit.

 

I'm in MA and have not seen this yet. I thought Starter $49.99 internet was only 10mb. If it's now 25mb I might get that and drop cable also.

Edit: I just went to Comcast and checked, they did raise them, but I have not received a bill with the new rates yet. I guess my next one will.

 

Hmm, I just checked latest, seems there is no customer owned equipment credit now. So bill going up (two cable cards, $5 COE credit gone, $10 for the second card billed as "additional outlet"). Maybe since they want to dump cable cards, don't want anyone to hang on to them for credits Regardless just another way for my favorite company to raise a "commitment" contract price, legally I suppose. They probably have to raise prices to pay their lawyers to make sure all their "fees" and price increases are legal.

 

The speed is now 25Mbps, as verified at my house.

 

I was always getting a COE credit until recently when I changed my double play plan and I was told that my Internet speed would increase and I would lose my COE. Here is my current bill before I went to Internet only. If you are correct, then they are violating their agreement.

 

That is probably why.

 

They ended up putting the $5 COE back, not sure what the delay was, usually the credit shows up BEFORE the actual bill is released. We don't use any Comcast equipment other than the two cable cards. They did raise the local channel fee from $10 to $13.70. Was going to be $14.60, that would have been 46%, maybe some regulation prevented that but I'm sure they will "catch up" next year. Total "fees" now $26.07, 13.70 TV, 8.25 sports, 4.12 franchise/regulatory. Franchise went up .22, does not SEEM like much but over 5%. Glad don't rent modem/gateway, that is up to $14 a month now, $168 a year to rent a modem? You can buy a really nice modem for that, even a gateway (modem and router in one). Or separates. If you are using really high speed internet make sure you get a Docsis 3.1 modem, 3.0 not enough for the really high speeds. Cheapest internet now $53, next cheapest $73.

For anyone looking for TV discounts with Comcast ask them about the latino package. It is actually the same as the regular package as far as I can see, just adds some latino channels. They usually have a nice discount on that, when I asked customer service lady about it she said she tries to offer it to people to save them money but many get insulted so don't take it. Geez, same package but more channels and CHEAPER, you don't have to WATCH the latino channels Assuming they still have it, last I checked was a year ago.

 

I'm now getting a $5 equipment credit for each of my Tivo Bolt Vox cablecards. Before the latest bill the credit was only $2.50 each. So now, I'm getting 2 cablecards for free because first additional outlet/card is free and the second additional outlet/card is now free due to $10 credit.

I'm tempted to get a third cablecard for an extra HDHR Prime I have which would mean I could get 3 cablecards/outlets for a total of $5 a month.

 

Remember who owns NBC, MSNBC, PeaCock when you think of Comcast and how they keep screwing with your rates/bills/cable cards.

 

In Atlanta area. I just saw my Xfinity bill for March and to my surprise, they have upped my customer owned credit to $10 (for one cable card), from $2.50. No charge for the single card, so that's a net reduction of $7.50 in my bill. Not complaining. No change to other fees this month, but a couple months ago, they increased broadcast and sports fees, so this brings it back down some. Still paying $106 for a plan that is advertised as $90. No additional outlets, no modem or other fees.

 

I haven't gotten my March statement yet (my billing cycle ends on the 17th of the month), but I noticed recently that I was granted an additional $5.00 COE credit on Feb 20. That's added to the $2.50 credit I had already received on Feb 10 for my single CableCARD.

I am curious to find out what this portends (permanent increase or one-time adjustment? compensation for some other increase? unprovoked Comcast largesse?).