What? Comcast Lie to You?
in the early evening on Monday, the 23rd of June 2008 by Chad
That’s not possible is it?
Avery Axel was annoyed with his cable company, Comcast, and was considering switching to Verizon’s new FiOS fiber-optic TV and Internet service.
The picture on his TV would freeze now and then, and he had heard good things about FiOS. Then the 21-year-old student saw a TV commercial from Comcast that made fun of FiOS and claimed the cable TV company has a larger fiber-optic network.
“I thought to myself: Maybe I don’t have to switch, because if Comcast has fiber optics now, that means that they’ll be better,” said Axel, who lives in Roosevelt, N.J.
But after asking around online, he found that nothing’s changed about Comcast’s service: It still uses coaxial cable to connect homes. It does use fiber-optic cable further away in the network, as it has for many years.
Seems that all the cable companies are running scared. Years of horrible service is catching up with them! Best part is, Comcast knows just how much suck they are.
Disclaimer: I work for VerizonBusiness (formerly MCI) but have nothing to do with FIOS, I can’t even get FIOS.
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June 25th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Now for the creepy part.
Apparently someone affiliated with Comcast found this post, and called me, looking for Avery Axel.
The mrs’s answered the phone very confused…
June 26th, 2008 at 5:18 am
Fios came to our neighborhood last fall and I used its presence to knock down the cable bill and upgrade to digital. But the only thing holding me back from dumping Comcast is the full day install of Fios; I’m working as a contractor so no work=no pay. I also don’t have HD TV so I don’t have that whole mess of problems with Comcast.
We’re even fed up with Comcast’s advertising. That turtle is so rude we want to throw him in a pot and cook him.