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Sunday, January 26th, 2025 10:41 PM

Comcast price is getting ridiculous. Thinking of just moving to Starlink since it's actually a little cheaper.

Every year I go through the same [Edit: Language] with Xfinity where my bill starts suddenly going up. My bill was already insane for 120$ a month for only 500mbps down and idk how much I'm SUPPOSED to get up, but I only get 20ish mbps upload. Now my bill just jumped 10 extra dollars when I'm already paying crazy prices for what I have. Now it's 130$ a month because "Taxes went up and my auto pay discount went down". I don't get any cable or phone services with this price this is just for 500mbps internet that was fraudently sold to me as "unlimited", but recently I have also found out this isn't true as if you do some looking on your account page you will find you only get so much a month and if you exceed it they will charge you, wouldn't you know it?, MORE FEES!. I was also told my plan was a gig plan, but just found out that's not true that it's 500mbps, and even though I knew I wasn't getting a gig I just assumed it was my router not efficient enough, but nope they just lied when originally getting the service. And then when calling they can't find a single better deal than the one I am paying? I have been with Xfinity for over 5 years and have never missed a single payment. Instead of giving me good deals and discounts, they think randomly jacking up the price on already expensive service is the way to keep me. I am currently now looking into Starlink. It is also expensive, but somehow it is actually a little cheaper than what I am paying now and at least with starlink I don't have to wait hours every time someone runs into a pole around me or bad weather comes in.  The only down side to Starlink is the initial purchase price as you have to get the dish. But it's looking like it will save me money in the long run. 

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3 months ago

 

user_sh1q8o

Thank you for reaching out and creating a new post. I understand you aren't happy with the recent updates to your plan, and I'll be glad to talk about any active promotions available. If you have the Fast tier, you do get downloads up to 500 Mbps and uploads up to 20 Mbps. That said, it sounds like you're getting the full speeds, which is great to hear. 

I see there was confusion as well regarding having Gigabit or Unlimited Data. When we send you the customer approval, it will outline the services that are included. If you don't pay for Unlimited Data separately or with xFi Complete, you will get 1.2 TB of data per month. You will, as you stated, be charged if you do exceed this amount, which is covered on your customer approval when you accept the new plan, and it is also listed online here https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/data-usage-plan for everyone to review. 
 
We also give you a heads-up on your bill about any upcoming changes, which will be highlighted in green font under regular monthly changes. To cover some new promotions, please send me a direct message. 

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No thanks, as you are being purposely dishonest. You know [Edited: "Language"] well that you guys tell new customers "unlimited". Regardless of what's in the fine print, let's be adults here and call a spade a spade. If you guys don't mean unlimited, regardless of what's in contracts that no one reads because people are inclined to trust they aren't being lied to when buying a service from a seller who is supposed to be reputable, you guys actively and purposely label it as unlimited in your sales speech. Let's check out the definition of what Unlimited means: "not limited or restricted in terms of number, quantity, or extent.". That's in direct contradiction to what you're fine print says which limits the internet to 1.2tb per month. Something can't be unlimited if it's limited to 1.2tb per month before you start charging people fees so expensive they gotta sell their kidney to cover. It's fine, I've been a customer for at least 5 years at this point, but honestly I think it's even more than that. [Edited: "Inflammatory"] my already expensive bill up 10 dollars when I have NEVER missed a payment which you can verify for yourself, then that is on you. I will be changing providers in the coming months and you can find a different [Edited: "Language"] to scam. As the bill isn't the only ridiculous thing about this service. I can't even change my router settings because you guys block the settings and instead force people to go to your terrible website that takes 10 years to load anything and then once it finally does load it's not even an option on your website, but instead now the website tells you have to download your app. I'd hate to see how that runs when you can't even create a basic website that anyone with 6 months of any language experience (C++, python, HTML) could make better than the current one. If you guys value me as a customer then you guys can call me with a better deal, or at the very least the deal I was sold in the first place and remove this 10$ extra a month [Edited: "Language"], and if not that is fine with me I will be taking my business to good old' Elon. The guy who gave my brother a means to contact me during the hurricane for FREE. That's someone I want my money going to, not greedy corps who try to fib and squeeze every dime they can out of long term customers that pay every month and never bother you. Have a good one.  

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user_sh1q8o, I can see your point of view, and I respect your feedback. The offer for help is on the table, and we'll be here if you'd like to cover some new plans.  

 

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2 months ago

[Edited: "Inflammatory"] I have been using Xfinity since it was comcast over a decade ago. Since Verizon did an acquisition of Xfinity it’s just terrible. They keep raising my bill and I have been trying to reach someone to solve my problem for four months. The internet never works [Edited: "Inflammatory/Language"]

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Hey @user_x0ge5e, Thank you for visiting our official Xfinity Forums Community support page. We greatly appreciate you taking the time to share your experience. I would be more than happy to offer my assistance looking into this further for you and help review the account and billing. 

 

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1 day ago

I was just looking into starlink for the same reason. I just read an article about how they were some how able to turn all mobile devices into satellite phones without anything extra. Starlink is now available in my area and has the top+ speed availabilities. We have had Comcast for a very long time, Xfinity, Comcast whatever they want to be called now.. our service is absolutely atrocious and the outages are just unacceptable. My current location/address is generally speaking the worst compared to the other service address is, in other states that we unfortunately have Comcast Xfinity services at. None of our addresses are in the middle of nowhere so there's no reason for it to be such garbage. Fortunately, I was able to find a better service, better speeds, reliable, significantly cheaper, and was able to cut the cord with the garbage Xfinity services. Xfinity lied to me as well about the "unlimited  Internet" plan. I found out after the ridiculously high bill skyrocketed randomly. Apparently from exceeding the data plan, imagine that, the unlimited data plan charging for exceeded data.. criminals. Here, we pay for the lowest of the basic cable plan and they charge like $100 for literally 4-6 local channels alone. We have a bundle package with a higher internet speed but we never are able to have access to those speeds. Their excuse was that we are close to the end of their provided service range so we'll never be able to get decent speeds. If you have any updates about starlink, keep me posted. At this point I feel like I would be better off just canceling Xfinity services and revert back to using smoke signals for communication. 

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user_x23s0b My team can help you with your service concerns today. To send a direct message, please click on the chat icon in the top-right corner of the screen, and select "Xfinity Support" to initiate a Direct Message. 
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