The citizens got their fiber optic network back, and Comcast gained a few new lifetime enemies, including me. Luckily, there were enough informed voters the second time around to kick its ass. Again, they pretended to be “a group of concerned citizens” despite the fact that their entire $300,000 budget came from the cable companies. In 2011, the fiber optic vote came back on the ballot, and Comcast funded yet another disinformation campaign with the catchy name ““. But in the end, Comcast just out-spent the council by a huge margin and stupidity won the day. It was completely false, and the town council tried their best to fight the lies with editorials in the town newspaper. The cable company was afraid of having to compete with a potentially low-cost internet access program from the city, but since that wouldn’t make a very good sales pitch, they did it by lying instead: saying that the city would be spending taxpayer money on the project.
It was designed to get the citizens of this city to vote against allowing our town council to use the fiber-optic network that the people paid for and own, to offer services for the benefit of the people. You see, I’ve had a bone to pick with Comcast ever since 2009, when they secretly funded a voter disinformation program called “No Blank Check Longmont”. But in this case, hearing of this the 20% price increase pushed me over the edge. Call Comcast, cancel the internet service while explaining it is because of the price increase, and select one of several other options we have here in my town (including a city-wide wi-fi network). Normally, I’d just advise them to use the magic of the free market and vote with their feet.
Offended by this attack on their frugality, these friends naturally turned to Mr. It seems that the local internet near-monopoly (Comcast) had just arbitrarily decided to increase their prices by $10 per month.
Earlier this spring, reports started coming in from some nearby friends that their internet access prices had been jacked way up.