Comcast blasted for seeking “loopholes” in rule requiring disclosure of all fees.

  • Chris Koss@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I think comcast getting fucked by regulators forcing fee disclosure has the potential to make a lot of people ‘too hard’

  • BackOnMyBS@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    That’s some straight up gaslighting shit. If they can figure out to charge it, they can print it on a bill.

  • Rentlar@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    It’s a simple solution, Comcast. Don’t charge any fee you aren’t willing to spend the effort to disclose.

  • fubo@lemmy.world
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    If your billing is too complicated to be accurately described to your customers, then you may have put yourself in a situation where you are incapable of being honest with your customers. That’s on you.

    It’s the job of regulators to ensure that you are honest with your customers; therefore, they can reasonably forbid you from having billing so complicated that it cannot be described accurately.

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    1 year ago

    I’m so glad I don’t have to use Comcast any more. A small local ISP (Sonic) expanded to cover my area last year and offers 10Gbps symmetric fiber for $40/month - half the price I was paying Comcast for 1.2Gbps down / 35Mbps up.

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      1 year ago

      I’m super jealous. At least I’m moving to a new apartment with fiber from CenturyLink at it, but even they are running $70/mo for gigabit. I’m living the T-Mobile 5G home internet life right now because CL only has DSL at my current place, and fuck Comcast in general.

      Even worse is, the new place has honest-to-God fiber from Comcast to the unit–sadly paired with an RFoG converter, so despite it being more than capable of symmetrical gigabit, they still only offer 35Mbps up there. Leave it to Comcast to make FTTP suck.

  • worfamerryman@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    They need to do a reset of their pricing them. Figure it out again from the ground up.

    I pay exactly what my isp advertises never a cent more.

    I live in a third world country.