```json
{
    "title": "Comcast: Lower Your Prices Or Lose More Customers",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2005/06/08/comcast-lower-your-prices-or-lose-more-customers/",
    "datePublished": "2005-06-08",
    "dateModified": "2022-05-11",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "Dear Arrogant Monopolistic Cable Operator: The day of reckoning is upon you. Your formerly monopolistic power has been drained by years of failed mega-mergers, media plays, satellite providers and gross…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# Comcast: Lower Your Prices Or Lose More Customers

Dear Arrogant Monopolistic Cable Operator:

The day of reckoning is upon you. Your formerly monopolistic power has been drained by years of failed mega-mergers, media plays, satellite providers and gross mis-management. Your cash cows are showing signs of Mad Cow Disease.

The final straw for me is your incredibly pig-headed strategy of price inflexibility on your high-speed Internet service. I pay what I consider a ridiculous amount every month for what is a necessary service for me. Now I see that your Telco competitors are slashing prices every way they can to win back business.

I [read](https://web.archive.org/web/20050610014028/http://news.com.com/2061-10785_3-5736424.html) that you will lower your price if I call you and threaten to move to an alternate provider. But only for 3 months.

You really need to step back and realize how dead your business is going to be in 2 years.

I live in the testbed for fiber-to-the-home in Massachussetts. Every day, Verizon linemen, training to string fiber to every home, drive up and down our street, leaving spools of high-speed goodness on every corner.

They say that in a year, I can have incredible speeds to my home, for less than what I pay for your high-speed Internet service.

So, Mr. Cable Operator (you have to be a man, because only a man would be this pig-headed), what are you going to do to keep me a customer?

Sincerely,
me

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