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Re:Google Fiber announced for Provo, Utah by plorkyeran on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @07:49PM (#5568115)
About a month ago Comcast doubled the speed of my connection for free (50/10 -> 105/20). I was delighted as I assumed it meant that a competitor was rolling out fiber in the area or something, and I was very disappointed when an hour scouring the internet for announcements revealed nothing. Somehow I don't think that was the intended reaction.

Then again, Comcast tries to get me to "upgrade" to packages costing half as much as my current one on a regular basis, so who knows what they were going for.

Re:Google Fiber announced for Provo, Utah by ck2 on Thursday April 18, 2013 @12:20AM (#5568870)
Wait for the other shoe to drop.

The pattern is raise the speed, then wait 60-90 days and raise all the prices.

Re:Google Fiber announced for Provo, Utah by hasker on Thursday April 18, 2013 @01:38AM (#5569061)
I totally agree. Comcast is not the worst. My parents happen to live in an area serviced by a ma and pop cable company (Service Electric Cablevision). 20/2 internet with a 200GB cap for $51 a month. Comcast, which is available to the community less than five miles away, crushes this. This is only 45 minutes from Philadelphia!
Re:Google Fiber announced for Provo, Utah by Retric on Thursday April 18, 2013 @10:48AM (#5570890)
What's just sad is you can hit 200GB a month with a 80kb/s connection.