http://www.lockergnome.com/tuxedojericho/2008/04/07/comcastic-yet-again/ Just another Lockergnome weblog Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:05:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://www.lockergnome.com/tuxedojericho/2008/04/07/comcastic-yet-again/#comment-46 Lori Nickerson Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:46:55 +0000 http://www.lockergnome.com/tuxedojericho/2008/04/07/comcastic-yet-again/#comment-46 Thank God I have Time Warner...they have never capped me once or played tricks with me... Thank God I have Time Warner…they have never capped me once or played tricks with me…

]]> http://www.lockergnome.com/tuxedojericho/2008/04/07/comcastic-yet-again/#comment-45 Lovs2look Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:05:00 +0000 http://www.lockergnome.com/tuxedojericho/2008/04/07/comcastic-yet-again/#comment-45 Now that this is public, I wonder how many "new" sign-ups they had this month? People should vote with their feet and leave ANY ISP that is meddling with ANY traffic. Fine if it's spelled out up front, but to meddle with users data without their knowledge...well I don't know of anyone who would be happy with that situation. Treat customers with disdain? And expect to stay in business? Sorry to see you go Comcast...NOT! Now that this is public, I wonder how many “new” sign-ups they had this month?
People should vote with their feet and leave ANY ISP that is meddling with ANY traffic. Fine if it’s spelled out up front, but to meddle with users data without their knowledge…well I don’t know of anyone who would be happy with that situation. Treat customers with disdain? And expect to stay in business?
Sorry to see you go Comcast…NOT!

]]> http://www.lockergnome.com/tuxedojericho/2008/04/07/comcastic-yet-again/#comment-44 Jerry Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:30:18 +0000 http://www.lockergnome.com/tuxedojericho/2008/04/07/comcastic-yet-again/#comment-44 Comcast is an extremely greedy and ambitious company. No doubt the Board members sit in the Boardroom nicely dressed and very polite, but there are heaving and seething emotions in their breasts. Dominance and control coupled with financial gain and privilege are the motivating factors. In this sort of corporate world of fantasy-made-real, the concepts of generosity, caring about the welfare of others, assistance to young and growing organizations, and even duty to the paying public, these things are non-existent. No, the idea is -- blast all competition out of your way and secure every channel of revenue. Well this antique method of doing business, anachronistic even now, will have to give way eventually to the way of the future, the idea of cooperation, and the sense that there is enough for all, and that all have a right to live and grow. In the meantime Comcast bulls ahead in the manner of the financiers and Robber Barons of the past, locking down every cable outlet in every home while meanwhile choking off the traffic on the exisiting, overloaded lines in preference to supplying new lines and encouraging new technologies. I watch in amazement many days as my Internet connection does things that are not accountable for by ordinary operations glitches, and simply indicate a huge and increasing tendency on the part of Comcast to meddle and experiment with priorities secretly imposed on unsuspecting customers. But meanwhile this proposition is never allowed in the Boardroom: to a customer who is paying a premium rate, give premium service. Comcast is an extremely greedy and ambitious company. No doubt the Board members sit in the Boardroom nicely dressed and very polite, but there are heaving and seething emotions in their breasts. Dominance and control coupled with financial gain and privilege are the motivating factors. In this sort of corporate world of fantasy-made-real, the concepts of generosity, caring about the welfare of others, assistance to young and growing organizations, and even duty to the paying public, these things are non-existent. No, the idea is — blast all competition out of your way and secure every channel of revenue. Well this antique method of doing business, anachronistic even now, will have to give way eventually to the way of the future, the idea of cooperation, and the sense that there is enough for all, and that all have a right to live and grow. In the meantime Comcast bulls ahead in the manner of the financiers and Robber Barons of the past, locking down every cable outlet in every home while meanwhile choking off the traffic on the exisiting, overloaded lines in preference to supplying new lines and encouraging new technologies. I watch in amazement many days as my Internet connection does things that are not accountable for by ordinary operations glitches, and simply indicate a huge and increasing tendency on the part of Comcast to meddle and experiment with priorities secretly imposed on unsuspecting customers. But meanwhile this proposition is never allowed in the Boardroom: to a customer who is paying a premium rate, give premium service.

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