VZ vs Comcast

[Dan Ritter]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 10:02:13PM -0400, Robert La Ferla wrote:
> 
> On Apr 9, 2007, at 9:47 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> 
> >After almost 15 minutes on hold, a Comcast rep told me that they
> >were rolling out 16Mb/s service to Waltham as a free upgrade,
> >but she had no timeline for my neighborhood. She affirmed that
> >at least some parts of Waltham had this already.
> >
> >Any Comcast subscribers seeing 16Mb/s downloads?
> >
> >-dsr-
> 
> Are you sure she wasn't mistaken?  They have a 6 Mb/s option for $10/ 
> month more.

I currently get 8 with bursts to 12. She knew that, and spelled
out that the upgrade was in direct response to FIOS, and would
be to 16Mb/s. She did not specify an upload speed.

She may have been wrong, she may have been lying, but she wasn't
mistaken.

-dsr-


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