Comcast Lost Over 419,000 TV Customers & Lost 120,000 Internet Customers in Q2 2024 as Cord Cutting is Speeding Up cordcuttersnews.com/comcast-lost-over-41900-tv-customers-lost-120000-internet-customers-in-q2-2024-as-cord-cutting-is-speeding-up/ Peacock’s Subscriber Decline Amidst Revenue Growth: A Mixed Quarter for NBCUniversal cordcuttersnews.com/peacocks-subscriber-decline-amidst-revenue-growth-a-mixed-quarter-for-nbcuniversal/ The Roku Channel Adds 3 New Free Live Channels, Including 24/7 Dr Phil cordcuttersnews.com/the-roku-channel-adds-3-new-free-live-channels-including-24-7-dr-phil/ Plex Introduces New “What’s On” Feature for Live TV cordcuttersnews.com/plex-introduces-new-whats-on-feature-for-live-tv/ Amazon’s Prime Video Enhances User Experience With Some Big Changes cordcuttersnews.com/amazons-prime-video-enhances-user-experience-with-some-big-changes/ Google to Reportedly Replace Chromecast With Google TV 4K with a New Google TV Set-Top Box cordcuttersnews.com/google-to-reportedly-replace-chromecast-with-google-tv-4k-with-a-new-google-tv-set-top-box/
As far as ROKU live channels its not always easy to find out what is coming on? you have to go through bells and whistles to pull upschedule on another screen. They have some good content on live chanels but I have not been able to figure out how they make any money when 90 percent of advertisements are promos for other live chanels on Roku.
There is a lot of animosity toward Comcast, when they were the 800 pound gorilla they treated their customers like crap and many people haven't forgotten or forgiven. I remember when they were voted the most hated company in America.
Comcast jacked up prices every 2 months and anytime you cancelled Comcast, you pretty much automatically got a bill for $500. I don't think I know anyone who was able to leave Comcast on good terms.
@LanceMan I tried too, but unfortunately we have 2 5G towers behind us that the signal kept pinging back and forth between the 2. The signal kept going down on me. Otherwise I would have kept it.
@tscan1265 That Comcast thing is almost an 100% conle of issses we here in Louisiana with Cox Cable TV. This kind of update to my last qustion; an gustion for luke. As the rents of thing's like Autism keep going up and the needs for thing's like Zoom schooling getting higher. How do fell about popole being kicked out of thier homes just becuase they can't afloud the rent becuase they have to spend like 90% of thier money on bad internet for thier kids laerning needs?
I was treated like garbage during the pandemic when I had to go to their local store for a new tv remote. My youngest granddaughter had dropped a bunch of Kinetic Sand on the remote and made it so it wouldn’t work. I was not wearing a mask and the guy behind the counter took a new remote and threw it at me and said I should get out of their store.
I don’t think anything can repair Comcast’s reputation after decades of being an awful company. I’d honestly rather pay more to a competitor than give them my business again. They are truly the worst.
Comcast charges a LOT for internet and their "popular tv" packages includes all the sports channels which I don't want. They need a tv package without all those channels. Trying to talk to an actual person is impossible.
I cancelled Comcast cable TV and switched to TH-cam TV mainly due to ever increasing rates. Then cancelled their Internet and switched to a new local fiber optic provider mainly just to be done with Comcast for ever.
When NBC cancelled my favorite show this spring, I cancelled Peacock. As soon as I can figure out a cheaper option, I'm out of Comcast internet. The bloody thing went from $42/mo to $79/mo. Jeeez...
There are probably other options especially 5g home internet. Almost all of them are cheaper than $72. I had Verizon 5g home for $45 and I got 300mb with that and now we have Fiber for $55.
Comcast offers their own alternative. Xfinity NOW internet. Supposed to be $30 a month with no contract. Sounds like a pain to switch to it from their regular internet service though. You have to essentially cancel your current service before you can start the cheaper one which is idiotic. Still, I much prefer having a hardline ISP. Satellite and 5G suck.
I pay $90 for internet from Comcast using my own modem. Where I live in Massachusetts I have no other option.Neither t mobile or verizon are in my area. Waiting impatiently for Amazon internet!
THANK YOU!! I live in New Hampshire and it’s the same problem. There’s literally only 2 internet providers in town: Comcast and crappy Fidium. We’ve been blocked out due to limited fiber optics. Comcast is still king in parts of New England 😬🫠
Too many pricing perks for new customers, but little if any for existing customers. Equipment rental costs climb every year. Not too mention all the extra fees. Finally they impose data caps on their internet service but only regionally. For Southern states they enforce the data caps, but no data caps in Northeast after the customers in the territory they purchased said no to data caps. After being a customer for nearly 20 years I jumped ship for Fiber and no data caps. Comcast doomed to sink and it’s their own fault.
I wish people would distinguish between live channels and rerun channels. There’s a huge difference. Don’t say they added a live channel when it’s just a rerun channel.
I cancelled my cable because they kept raising the bill. Now, I only use the Xfinity for internet access. I use a pre-amplified antenna to view the major stations in my area.
Same here. Kept basic internet service and got rid of everything else. Chopped $245 off of the monthly bill. I just use an $12 antenna from Walmart and it pulls in 58 channels over the air. What's really cool is that my TV arranges all the antenna channels into a channel guide so I can see what's on. Just like a cable box. Had no idea my TV could do that.
T-mobile and Verison both offer 5G wireless. Its not as fast an d reliable as cable, but its not bad. You can try it for free for a week last I checked. As soon as they improve just a little Comcast gets the boot
I get my fiber optic Internet from my electric company. 100mps for $65. There's not many options around here either. Version and T-moble are both unavailable. You might want to check with your electric company to see if they offer anything.
@@charlieauer1672 I find T-Mobile's 5G internet to be more reliable than the cable provider in my area (Cox). I had constant issues with Cox going down, something that hasn't happened with my 5G service. I get the occasional slowdowns, which is easily resolved by rebooting the 5G router. My actual internet speeds are also faster on the 5G service, and I only pay $40 bundling the service with my phone plan. Cox wants almost double that for a similar plan when you include their hidden fees and taxes.
On the phone, well HOLD waiting to talk to someone to cancel my Comcast internet, it's been 12 mins. was told it could be 45 mins. and they wonder why people are leaving them. Got 600 Mbps for pretty much half the price of Comcast 1.2 Gbs.
Comcast has a poor image that's persisted for decades. I'll spare you the nicknames. Peacock isn't worth the new rates. The intro rates I was willing to pay (it was $3 a month). Look forward to the fall 🎉🎉
I think Comcast Xfinity will survive, but like you said, they will definitely change rapidly to something different than they are today. They had the infrastructure but were slow to adapt fast enough, so we are just waiting to see what they do. We have all we want in our cable package, including sports, for my husband. He doesn't really want to change much right now.
Finally got Comcast's claws off my mother. She still has cable internet but that's it. Dropped her bill from $305 a month down to $60. Ditched their phone service in favor of Ooma and just ditched cable TV altogether. I do worry about what would happen to their internet customers if Comcast goes bankrupt. Where we live there is no other cable/fiber ISP available. The only other option is crappy 5G or satellite, neither of which are very appealing.
No reason at all if the FAST services give you everything you need. Others might want sports, first-run movies fresh from the theaters, original programming, a particular film or TV library or any number of things paid services provide that the free ones don't. That's the great thing about having choice. You can always do you.
@@jimroscovius I pay extra for the Disney +/Hulu bundle to avoid the ads. Well worth $20 a month IMOH. Edit: I also pay for YT Premium and use YT music instead of Spotify or Apple Music.
Comcast going under is great for me I was wondering why my $40 internet package that was only supposed to last 2 years is still going on they don't want me to leave
One wrinkle to the Comcast story, many customers held on to cable for Bally’s Sports Network. Now that it’s blacked out, they are finally breaking away. Also, while Comcast may be in trouble, it is a lot more diverse than others. I don’t have a dog in this fight or live in an area that Comcast offers service and am well aware of how bad it can be. But its situation isn’t as dire as you think.
Comcast has some of the worst customer service I’ve ever seen. I’m happy people are beginning to leave them. I once lived in a apartment complex where they screwed up the wiring and refused to fix it and several thousand people in this chain of apartments had issues with them. I also worked at a building location where they were supposed to be getting business class Internet and it turned out they were getting, a residential connection that was split into 10 different business locations. The bandwidth was not there. And this has been going on for five years before I discovered what was going on when I took on the job. It required one of their high-end technicians to come and confirm what we’ve been reporting, and they never fixed it. And they never backdated any of the billing.
Much as I dislike Comcast,they are the only game in town in my area. As an apartment dweller,I cannot have any dish so what would someone like me do. The evil I know switched for an unknown evil is not a happy scenario.
Good point about pricing. Comcast is the fastest in my area and I pay $95 per month for 1Gig with no data cap. It’s a promotion, but I’m cool with that.
Comcast was horrible. My older boyfriend had Comcast when I lived in Florida. I got him a router and his own cable modem so he would not have to pay Comcast rent on the modem. When I took his old modem back to Comcast, they kept pushing him to do a "free trial" of their most expensive TV bundle. I told him no, because that was how they roped people into paying more after the trial. Then when we were about to leave, they tried to slam him onto the "free trial" anyway! I was livid with Comcast. They are so sleazy. I hope they go out of business.
Only in the past year have we installed the new fiber optic cable system. Gateway Fiber is still a newer company that seems like it does well. I live in St. Charles County, Missouri. I’ll admit, still somewhat of a newer company.
i don't know what's the hate about Peacock , i love the Peacock, just like Hulu & Paramount+ Great movies pretty good contents an all i enjoy also there solid cable internet such i love & have for a decade now & is very reliable
Besides the fact I can't look at a schedule of the daily offerings before I sign up for Peacock, it's NBC taking all the minor sports off of the local OTA NBC channel and the cable channel "NBCSports", eliminating some and the others are secondary as Comcast/NBC rush towards financial armageddon by participating in bidding war for broadcast rights for high-profile stuff like football (college and pro); there's nothing that differentiates them from other broadcasters and streamers who are also fighting for football eyeballs, nothing that makes Peacock unique. I know they don't have the sports I want to watch, and I don't know what else is on it, so no reason to sign up for it.
I tried Peacock. It has nothing but lame NBC crap on it. No thanks. Life is way too short to be wasting it in front of a television. An antenna and free streaming are all I need for those periodic shows and network sports.
? for Luke: I've heard rumblings about the Chicago Cub's Marquee Network considering only offering 12 month subscriptions. Makes sense since most only sub during the MLB season. I've already been thinking about how services might start to require more of a "commitment" rather than the buffet style we enjoy today... I'll be interested in your opinion. Love the channel Subbed / Liked and watched all the way through Keep up the great content
For me, I was grandfathered in a price when I was subscribed to the WWE Network and then sold to Peacock. Getting all the WWE and the wrestling library they own was worth the price…instead of ordering each PPV or exclusive programming.
I have peacock plus and don't have ads and also amazon prime which i pay the 2.99 for no ads. I'm still on cable as there are things only shown on that that i like to watch like Lakers, UCLA football and basketball. alot of other sports i don't care about unless it's maybe a championship game etc. There are some things i watch using roku but only the free stuff. I'm one who hates seeing the same ads on various streaming services. It just gets sooooooooooo oldddddddd after awhile. Most i turn the sound off and just don't look at the ad. Super hate them during movies so i only watch movie services with no ads.
Comcast/NBC's Peacock service (actually NBC in general) has slowly been dumping the minor sports I like to watch in favor of getting into bidding wars for the major sports (like football). I really can't see a reason to sign up for it. I won't sign up for Peacock just for the Olympics. I can find out who won/lost the next day in the news to satisfy my curiosity.
I can't wait 5-10 years for them to get it together and they are just too dang expensive. I just retired so something has got to go. They claim to give you a free upgrade (where is it?) and then a couple of months later, they are charging you for it. Do better.
I really HATE the new Prime Menu ....One main reason, there appears to be NO way to not have the previews for every moivie or show runs......I will be there much less now.
Streaming is like the EV market ... everyone is jumping in and only a few will survive. Comcast needs to focus on their network and backbone development with fiber and then compete on cost/speed and dump data caps. Im sure they are sucking up whatever grants from the feds they can to cover that cost.
Comcast sux. My Mom has it because it is the only thing offered in her town, and we have had to do so much work to keep the bill in line. If we have not changed plans and done other things, it easily would have risen 80% in 3 years.
I had to quit Comcast in 2017 cause my family didn't have enough money to pay the next three years was tough because I watch football how to go elsewhere to watch sports it was tough again but by 2020 my dad told my mom about an antenna company in our area so I called them they told me they had a streaming service LoL 🤩🤩🤩 been good ever since cancel Comcast now I got Verizon home internet works like a charm 👍👍👍
Comcast has been so sub-standard of a service for a long time. Even cablevision is better then comcast now, cablevision is bringing fiber to homes and businesses at good rate like roughly $65/month for 300mbps download and 300mbps upload as a month to month cost. The cheapest you will get from comcast is going to be $2,200 / month for a 4 gig connection
When they were my customer they always ignored churn as they are stock driven, new subs drives the share price. Karma is coming as their stations are also imploding
Talk about clickbait. Your heading makes it seem like it's about to happen any day now and then you say Mark my words. In 5to10 years Comcast will not look the same as it does today.
Well, I have a comment my comment is that every time that I’m on Plex sometimes I don’t get the live TV experience, but I never get to play anything from the super sentai shows
that's a good question to ask to learn about what a monopoly actually is. a monopoly is a single provider in a single market. so a cable provider isn't a monopoly in a market that also includes fiber, satellite, streaming and broadcast tv.
I live between two major cities in Michigan and can't even get Fiber internet. I can get AT&T 5G fixed wireless but since their cellphone service sucks in my area i was told not to bother. It really does suck when I've been anxious awaiting for a faster new Internet then just the DSL speeds i get from AT&T. I read Xfinity / Comcast is slowly rolling out their fiber optic internet.. but who knows when that will reach my area. I tried Comcast a little over a year ago with their 1200 mpbs and it was a joke because I could barely get anything compared to AT&T DSL.. which turned out to be faster. I'm pretty frustrated here by the Internet choices or lack there of.
Similar situation here in that T-Mobile cellphone service not great at our house…BUT T-Mobile 5G Internet has been good even when snowing. So maybe give your AT&T 5G internet a try especially if there is a free trial.
Don’t disagree with everyone’s sentiments toward Comcast. They deserve every bit of it. However, my big question is do you really think we’re going to replace Comcast Internet anytime soon. I don’t see AT&T, Verizon, or T-Mobile Internet products being all that effective. It’s all about living close to the tower. So we live and die by proximity to the tower. I see a future of much higher cost in obtaining Internet service. That is my future bet.
Comcast cable is finished as a cable provider but they still have NBC, Universal Studios etc. I have a Peacock annual subscription, so not worried about the price increase.
I can watch Roku live tv on my Television through amazon fire stick. My question is I can't figure out how to get Roku live Tv on my Laptop? LIke your videos!
If the new Google streaming device comes with 4gb and 32 memory of space, it will come in 60 price range with a new tech chip. That's my opinion of the price.
I am an ex-xfinty customer. I dumped Xfinity for Verizon fios as soon as Verizon fios became available in my neighborhood years ago. I will never be an Xfinity customer again. I know 2 family members who are on the brink of leaving Xfinity because of the price and other daily headaches with their connection. I pay $64.99 a month for gigabit speed internet with a 4 year price guarantee.
Maybe Comcast will gain some subscribers to Peacock once the Olympics start. The Olympics are the only reason why anyone would want to subscribe to Peacock right now anyway.
I enjoy some of Peacock original programming. I also like some of the movies coming from theaters. But I only subscribed during sales. Currently have $19.99/yr deal.
With the exception of The Office and to a lesser extent (For me), WWE, is there really anything worth watching on Peacock? Wifey and I do enjoy American Ninja Warrior but we can catch that live on Mondays with an Antenna.
We watch all of the Law & Order shows, and Chicago Fire. And I watch them when I want to, not when the networks say I have to, and no stupid, ugly antenna!!
@jimroscovius You can hide it in your attic. You can buy an antenna that isn't as ugly as most. Buy that ugly antenna and a Tablo or HD Homerun and be able to record what you want and you can watch it whenever you want without cable and save a thousand dollars a year easily. I have six different premium streaming services and still save $70 per month, compared to having cable. I also have way more content to watch. I can choose to only watch on demand with no commercials and save lots of time and not be bombarded with ads, too.
@bigb860 I hate antennas. So does my wife. We nice the nice, clean look. Back when we remodeled our downstairs and had cable, we ran the cable under the floor so that it was hidden. No cables or wires showing.
At the current rate of losses, 2028 is more inline with the finality of Comcast, but the daily cancellation numbers are more probably going to increase and decrease even that projection year.
@@GreyEagleNewsDesk It is mostly irrelevant, since Comcast will go the way of Blockbuster and Redbox soon enough. It is an unsustainable business model, and the only thing that can save it is infrastructure, which will almost certainly be taken care of by a competent company, that did not engage in the worst monopolistic customer service.
…and there’s the other reason 🙄🫠🫨 Internet is $100 a month no matter WHERE you go! It’s not going to change. People are just pissed at CrapCast because of added fees and cost. But it’s no different basically elsewhere.
Comcast Lost Over 419,000 TV Customers & Lost 120,000 Internet Customers in Q2 2024 as Cord Cutting is Speeding Up cordcuttersnews.com/comcast-lost-over-41900-tv-customers-lost-120000-internet-customers-in-q2-2024-as-cord-cutting-is-speeding-up/
Peacock’s Subscriber Decline Amidst Revenue Growth: A Mixed Quarter for NBCUniversal cordcuttersnews.com/peacocks-subscriber-decline-amidst-revenue-growth-a-mixed-quarter-for-nbcuniversal/
The Roku Channel Adds 3 New Free Live Channels, Including 24/7 Dr Phil cordcuttersnews.com/the-roku-channel-adds-3-new-free-live-channels-including-24-7-dr-phil/
Plex Introduces New “What’s On” Feature for Live TV cordcuttersnews.com/plex-introduces-new-whats-on-feature-for-live-tv/
Amazon’s Prime Video Enhances User Experience With Some Big Changes cordcuttersnews.com/amazons-prime-video-enhances-user-experience-with-some-big-changes/
Google to Reportedly Replace Chromecast With Google TV 4K with a New Google TV Set-Top Box cordcuttersnews.com/google-to-reportedly-replace-chromecast-with-google-tv-4k-with-a-new-google-tv-set-top-box/
As far as ROKU live channels its not always easy to find out what is coming on? you have to go through bells and whistles to pull upschedule on another screen. They have some good content on live chanels but I have not been able to figure out how they make any money when 90 percent of advertisements are promos for other live chanels on Roku.
Losing WWE to Netflix will be a big blow to their service along with their price increase.
There is a lot of animosity toward Comcast, when they were the 800 pound gorilla they treated their customers like crap and many people haven't forgotten or forgiven. I remember when they were voted the most hated company in America.
So it's actually "looking good" then?
I couldn't get away from them fast enough . I switched to T-Mobile 5G the first day it was available here.
Comcast jacked up prices every 2 months and anytime you cancelled Comcast, you pretty much automatically got a bill for $500.
I don't think I know anyone who was able to leave Comcast on good terms.
The only company worse - AT&T
@LanceMan I tried too, but unfortunately we have 2 5G towers behind us that the signal kept pinging back and forth between the 2. The signal kept going down on me. Otherwise I would have kept it.
Comcast has had a monopoly in many areas. They get what they deserve after decades of treating customers like garbage.
@tscan1265 That Comcast thing is almost an 100% conle of issses we here in Louisiana with Cox Cable TV. This kind of update to my last qustion; an gustion for luke. As the rents of thing's like Autism keep going up and the needs for thing's like Zoom schooling getting higher. How do fell about popole being kicked out of thier homes just becuase they can't afloud the rent becuase they have to spend like 90% of thier money on bad internet for thier kids laerning needs?
I was treated like garbage during the pandemic when I had to go to their local store for a new tv remote. My youngest granddaughter had dropped a bunch of Kinetic Sand on the remote and made it so it wouldn’t work. I was not wearing a mask and the guy behind the counter took a new remote and threw it at me and said I should get out of their store.
These old school cables services forgot how dirty they were with their evil greedy practices especially Comcast
Karma is hitting them hard one by one!
Only thing Comcast have to do is stop that data capp
I don’t think anything can repair Comcast’s reputation after decades of being an awful company.
I’d honestly rather pay more to a competitor than give them my business again. They are truly the worst.
Comcast charges a LOT for internet and their "popular tv" packages includes all the sports channels which I don't want. They need a tv package without all those channels. Trying to talk to an actual person is impossible.
Ya, whenever they lose subscribers they find a sneaky way of making up for it by raising prices even more.
Goodbye Communist Cast/Xflinity. 😅
I cancelled Comcast cable TV and switched to TH-cam TV mainly due to ever increasing rates. Then cancelled their Internet and switched to a new local fiber optic provider mainly just to be done with Comcast for ever.
We’re sooo close to that exact scenario. Kinda weird that I’m excited to sign up to Google Fiber and TH-cam Tv, lol.
When NBC cancelled my favorite show this spring, I cancelled Peacock. As soon as I can figure out a cheaper option, I'm out of Comcast internet. The bloody thing went from $42/mo to $79/mo. Jeeez...
There are probably other options especially 5g home internet. Almost all of them are cheaper than $72. I had Verizon 5g home for $45 and I got 300mb with that and now we have Fiber for $55.
Comcast offers their own alternative. Xfinity NOW internet. Supposed to be $30 a month with no contract. Sounds like a pain to switch to it from their regular internet service though. You have to essentially cancel your current service before you can start the cheaper one which is idiotic. Still, I much prefer having a hardline ISP. Satellite and 5G suck.
The old saying: Comcast doesn't have a single customer. They have subjects and treat them as such.
I pay $90 for internet from Comcast using my own modem. Where I live in Massachusetts I have no other option.Neither t mobile or verizon are in my area. Waiting impatiently for Amazon internet!
THANK YOU!! I live in New Hampshire and it’s the same problem. There’s literally only 2 internet providers in town: Comcast and crappy Fidium. We’ve been blocked out due to limited fiber optics. Comcast is still king in parts of New England 😬🫠
What about 5g internet air from AT&T?
Too many pricing perks for new customers, but little if any for existing customers. Equipment rental costs climb every year. Not too mention all the extra fees. Finally they impose data caps on their internet service but only regionally. For Southern states they enforce the data caps, but no data caps in Northeast after the customers in the territory they purchased said no to data caps. After being a customer for nearly 20 years I jumped ship for Fiber and no data caps. Comcast doomed to sink and it’s their own fault.
I wish people would distinguish between live channels and rerun channels. There’s a huge difference. Don’t say they added a live channel when it’s just a rerun channel.
I cancelled my cable because they kept raising the bill. Now, I only use the Xfinity for internet access. I use a pre-amplified antenna to view the major stations in my area.
Same here. Kept basic internet service and got rid of everything else. Chopped $245 off of the monthly bill. I just use an $12 antenna from Walmart and it pulls in 58 channels over the air. What's really cool is that my TV arranges all the antenna channels into a channel guide so I can see what's on. Just like a cable box. Had no idea my TV could do that.
24/7 Dr. Phil channel? How about a root canal channel?
😄
Ohh that’s next!! 😆
Na, they'll go further than that.
24/7 The View
Comcast, it's Craptastic!
Comcast is my only local option for high-speed Internet. I hope it sticks around.
Have you tried Starlink?
@@ryngovernale7717 Cable internet is WAY better than satellite. I get a 1GB connection for less than $70/mo.
T-mobile and Verison both offer 5G wireless. Its not as fast an d reliable as cable, but its not bad. You can try it for free for a week last I checked. As soon as they improve just a little Comcast gets the boot
I get my fiber optic Internet from my electric company. 100mps for $65. There's not many options around here either. Version and T-moble are both unavailable. You might want to check with your electric company to see if they offer anything.
@@charlieauer1672 I find T-Mobile's 5G internet to be more reliable than the cable provider in my area (Cox). I had constant issues with Cox going down, something that hasn't happened with my 5G service. I get the occasional slowdowns, which is easily resolved by rebooting the 5G router. My actual internet speeds are also faster on the 5G service, and I only pay $40 bundling the service with my phone plan. Cox wants almost double that for a similar plan when you include their hidden fees and taxes.
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C'Mon Crash
On the phone, well HOLD waiting to talk to someone to cancel my Comcast internet, it's been 12 mins. was told it could be 45 mins. and they wonder why people are leaving them. Got 600 Mbps for pretty much half the price of Comcast 1.2 Gbs.
I wish Comcast would add metv toons
Yep, I watch that channel OTA
Every.. single... (TH-cam goes to commerical)
so annoying 🫤
Had Comcast for 10 years. The last 2 years of that internet constantly went down.
Comcast has a poor image that's persisted for decades. I'll spare you the nicknames. Peacock isn't worth the new rates. The intro rates I was willing to pay (it was $3 a month).
Look forward to the fall 🎉🎉
I think Comcast Xfinity will survive, but like you said, they will definitely change rapidly to something different than they are today. They had the infrastructure but were slow to adapt fast enough, so we are just waiting to see what they do. We have all we want in our cable package, including sports, for my husband. He doesn't really want to change much right now.
Finally got Comcast's claws off my mother. She still has cable internet but that's it. Dropped her bill from $305 a month down to $60. Ditched their phone service in favor of Ooma and just ditched cable TV altogether. I do worry about what would happen to their internet customers if Comcast goes bankrupt. Where we live there is no other cable/fiber ISP available. The only other option is crappy 5G or satellite, neither of which are very appealing.
why should I pay for a streaming service that is trying to force me to watch commercials when I can watch streaming services with commercials for free
No reason at all if the FAST services give you everything you need. Others might want sports, first-run movies fresh from the theaters, original programming, a particular film or TV library or any number of things paid services provide that the free ones don't. That's the great thing about having choice. You can always do you.
I hate ads, so I will pay.
@@jimroscovius I pay extra for the Disney +/Hulu bundle to avoid the ads. Well worth $20 a month IMOH.
Edit: I also pay for YT Premium and use YT music instead of Spotify or Apple Music.
Comcast going under is great for me I was wondering why my $40 internet package that was only supposed to last 2 years is still going on they don't want me to leave
One wrinkle to the Comcast story, many customers held on to cable for Bally’s Sports Network. Now that it’s blacked out, they are finally breaking away. Also, while Comcast may be in trouble, it is a lot more diverse than others. I don’t have a dog in this fight or live in an area that Comcast offers service and am well aware of how bad it can be. But its situation isn’t as dire as you think.
Comcast has some of the worst customer service I’ve ever seen. I’m happy people are beginning to leave them. I once lived in a apartment complex where they screwed up the wiring and refused to fix it and several thousand people in this chain of apartments had issues with them. I also worked at a building location where they were supposed to be getting business class Internet and it turned out they were getting, a residential connection that was split into 10 different business locations. The bandwidth was not there. And this has been going on for five years before I discovered what was going on when I took on the job. It required one of their high-end technicians to come and confirm what we’ve been reporting, and they never fixed it. And they never backdated any of the billing.
I totally agree on Comcrap. They have become more for shareholders and not for the subscriber. Subscribers are getting squeezed to their limits.
Much as I dislike Comcast,they are the only game in town in my area. As an apartment dweller,I cannot have any dish so what would someone like me do. The evil I know switched for an unknown evil is not a happy scenario.
Good point about pricing. Comcast is the fastest in my area and I pay $95 per month for 1Gig with no data cap. It’s a promotion, but I’m cool with that.
Comcast was horrible. My older boyfriend had Comcast when I lived in Florida. I got him a router and his own cable modem so he would not have to pay Comcast rent on the modem. When I took his old modem back to Comcast, they kept pushing him to do a "free trial" of their most expensive TV bundle. I told him no, because that was how they roped people into paying more after the trial. Then when we were about to leave, they tried to slam him onto the "free trial" anyway! I was livid with Comcast. They are so sleazy. I hope they go out of business.
Hmm...hadn't noticed the new Prime Video updates yet.
I cancelled Comcast’s internet in January. I now have fiber at half the cost. I also canceled the tv package and now have TH-cam TV. A lot cheaper.
I pay for Peacock Premium Plus Annually.
I don't think that comcast has much time. Comcast has the most explosive pricing in the industry.
I said bye bye a few years ago and am happy I did!
Comcast should sale it now before it goes down get your money and run
Mark his word....
All those companies that you’re mentioning would eventually be paying Comcast and spectrum and other companies major fees
Only in the past year have we installed the new fiber optic cable system. Gateway Fiber is still a newer company that seems like it does well. I live in St. Charles County, Missouri. I’ll admit, still somewhat of a newer company.
i don't know what's the hate about Peacock , i love the Peacock, just like Hulu & Paramount+ Great movies pretty good contents an all i enjoy also there solid cable internet such i love & have for a decade now & is very reliable
Besides the fact I can't look at a schedule of the daily offerings before I sign up for Peacock, it's NBC taking all the minor sports off of the local OTA NBC channel and the cable channel "NBCSports", eliminating some and the others are secondary as Comcast/NBC rush towards financial armageddon by participating in bidding war for broadcast rights for high-profile stuff like football (college and pro); there's nothing that differentiates them from other broadcasters and streamers who are also fighting for football eyeballs, nothing that makes Peacock unique. I know they don't have the sports I want to watch, and I don't know what else is on it, so no reason to sign up for it.
comcast needs to dump the data cap
I tried Peacock. It has nothing but lame NBC crap on it. No thanks. Life is way too short to be wasting it in front of a television. An antenna and free streaming are all I need for those periodic shows and network sports.
? for Luke: I've heard rumblings about the Chicago Cub's Marquee Network considering only offering 12 month subscriptions. Makes sense since most only sub during the MLB season. I've already been thinking about how services might start to require more of a "commitment" rather than the buffet style we enjoy today... I'll be interested in your opinion. Love the channel Subbed / Liked and watched all the way through Keep up the great content
For me, I was grandfathered in a price when I was subscribed to the WWE Network and then sold to Peacock. Getting all the WWE and the wrestling library they own was worth the price…instead of ordering each PPV or exclusive programming.
I have peacock plus and don't have ads and also amazon prime which i pay the 2.99 for no ads. I'm still on cable as there are things only shown on that that i like to watch like Lakers, UCLA football and basketball. alot of other sports i don't care about unless it's maybe a championship game etc. There are some things i watch using roku but only the free stuff. I'm one who hates seeing the same ads on various streaming services. It just gets sooooooooooo oldddddddd after awhile. Most i turn the sound off and just don't look at the ad. Super hate them during movies so i only watch movie services with no ads.
Question for Luke
You think Comcast or Spectrum or Altice eventually just get bought out? And who do you think would benefit from being the buyer?
Comcast/NBC's Peacock service (actually NBC in general) has slowly been dumping the minor sports I like to watch in favor of getting into bidding wars for the major sports (like football). I really can't see a reason to sign up for it. I won't sign up for Peacock just for the Olympics. I can find out who won/lost the next day in the news to satisfy my curiosity.
I can't wait 5-10 years for them to get it together and they are just too dang expensive. I just retired so something has got to go. They claim to give you a free upgrade (where is it?) and then a couple of months later, they are charging you for it. Do better.
They still think they got the ball and they fumbled it years ago!
Comcast, like Apple, is way too big to fail.
I really HATE the new Prime Menu ....One main reason, there appears to be NO way to not have the previews for every moivie or show runs......I will be there much less now.
Gave up on overpriced cable tv over 20 years ago. Never looked back.
Streaming is like the EV market ... everyone is jumping in and only a few will survive. Comcast needs to focus on their network and backbone development with fiber and then compete on cost/speed and dump data caps. Im sure they are sucking up whatever grants from the feds they can to cover that cost.
Comcast sux. My Mom has it because it is the only thing offered in her town, and we have had to do so much work to keep the bill in line. If we have not changed plans and done other things, it easily would have risen 80% in 3 years.
I had to quit Comcast in 2017 cause my family didn't have enough money to pay the next three years was tough because I watch football how to go elsewhere to watch sports it was tough again but by 2020 my dad told my mom about an antenna company in our area so I called them they told me they had a streaming service LoL 🤩🤩🤩 been good ever since cancel Comcast now I got Verizon home internet works like a charm 👍👍👍
Comcast put a spin on it! How bout Luke putting his spin on it.
LOL good point
Comcast has been so sub-standard of a service for a long time. Even cablevision is better then comcast now, cablevision is bringing fiber to homes and businesses at good rate like roughly $65/month for 300mbps download and 300mbps upload as a month to month cost. The cheapest you will get from comcast is going to be $2,200 / month for a 4 gig connection
A Question for Luke: Why don't you have all the answers? 😂 Love what you do keep it going sir.
What does this all mean for nbcuniversal?
Comcast is more expensive but I love theur internet service. And free subscription apps like peacock and max with their hbo
When they were my customer they always ignored churn as they are stock driven, new subs drives the share price. Karma is coming as their stations are also imploding
Talk about clickbait. Your heading makes it seem like it's about to happen any day now and then you say Mark my words. In 5to10 years Comcast will not look the same as it does today.
Good information
Comcast is going down....Now Spectrum should be next....they just raised the fee again 😕.... that will go too
Well, I have a comment my comment is that every time that I’m on Plex sometimes I don’t get the live TV experience, but I never get to play anything from the super sentai shows
How can they lose internet customers in monopoly markets?
that's a good question to ask to learn about what a monopoly actually is. a monopoly is a single provider in a single market. so a cable provider isn't a monopoly in a market that also includes fiber, satellite, streaming and broadcast tv.
The monopoly is being broken as other providers expand.
Any word of HBO max merging with Disney+ or tv toon Coming to Peoria Illinois
I’ve seen a video about that. Nothing yet, just talking about it. It would be interesting to see what will happen.
I’m thinking of switching to a local fiber company that offers faster speed for less money.
I live between two major cities in Michigan and can't even get Fiber internet.
I can get AT&T 5G fixed wireless but since their cellphone service sucks in my area i was told not to bother.
It really does suck when I've been anxious awaiting for a faster new Internet then just the DSL speeds i get from AT&T.
I read Xfinity / Comcast is slowly rolling out their fiber optic internet.. but who knows when that will reach my area.
I tried Comcast a little over a year ago with their 1200 mpbs and it was a joke because I could barely get anything compared to AT&T DSL.. which turned out to be faster.
I'm pretty frustrated here by the Internet choices or lack there of.
Similar situation here in that T-Mobile cellphone service not great at our house…BUT T-Mobile 5G Internet has been good even when snowing. So maybe give your AT&T 5G internet a try especially if there is a free trial.
It will be a long time before Comcast goes out of business. Over 30m internet customers and 13m TV customers. 😅
If they continue to lose 419,000 customers per quarter, that's 1,676,000 per year. Stock will go down. They don't have a good reason to be smug.
Whether you are a big WWE fan or not, losing them to Netflix next year is gonna be a big blow to them.
Don’t disagree with everyone’s sentiments toward Comcast. They deserve every bit of it. However, my big question is do you really think we’re going to replace Comcast Internet anytime soon. I don’t see AT&T, Verizon, or T-Mobile Internet products being all that effective. It’s all about living close to the tower. So we live and die by proximity to the tower. I see a future of much higher cost in obtaining Internet service. That is my future bet.
yes
WHY DO WE HAVE TO KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THIS ?
LOL
If Google does it right with their new set top box they might not have a problem. Maybe this could be a replacement for the Nvidia Shield.
Comcast cable is finished as a cable provider but they still have NBC, Universal Studios etc. I have a Peacock annual subscription, so not worried about the price increase.
An annual subscription can never be increased? What am I missing?
I can watch Roku live tv on my Television through amazon fire stick. My question is I can't figure out how to get Roku live Tv on my Laptop? LIke your videos!
Comcast’s tv have new channels
If the new Google streaming device comes with 4gb and 32 memory of space, it will come in 60 price range with a new tech chip. That's my opinion of the price.
That price is very possible, but if it happens at that price they will struggle to justify the cost versus the Walmart version.
Comcast is not doomed lol
I am an ex-xfinty customer. I dumped Xfinity for Verizon fios as soon as Verizon fios became available in my neighborhood years ago. I will never be an Xfinity customer again. I know 2 family members who are on the brink of leaving Xfinity because of the price and other daily headaches with their connection. I pay $64.99 a month for gigabit speed internet with a 4 year price guarantee.
I could take or leave their channels even though I record a lot of
Commercials anywhere are CRAP. I would like to not have to watch Ads anywhere. Happy to pay whatever to not have to watch Commercials.
Native advertising has existef virtually as long as TV existed. It's a model that works for creators.
I'm one who left Comcast TV after more than 40 years.
I'm next, lol.
How exactly does one mark a word?
I heard him say more than one word! 😂
Comcast/Xfinity is on life-support
32 million internet customers. Wireless and security, and they still have over 13m TV customers. They will still be around.
Maybe Comcast will gain some subscribers to Peacock once the Olympics start. The Olympics are the only reason why anyone would want to subscribe to Peacock right now anyway.
I enjoy some of Peacock original programming. I also like some of the movies coming from theaters. But I only subscribed during sales. Currently have $19.99/yr deal.
I have peacock at 2.99 but is going up and I will cancel when it does
You missed the 19.99/ yr deal. But there was a $30/yr deal still going around. May be able to find it by Google search.
With the exception of The Office and to a lesser extent (For me), WWE, is there really anything worth watching on Peacock? Wifey and I do enjoy American Ninja Warrior but we can catch that live on Mondays with an Antenna.
We watch all of the Law & Order shows, and Chicago Fire. And I watch them when I want to, not when the networks say I have to, and no stupid, ugly antenna!!
@@jimroscovius “I watch when we want to! Stupid, ugly antenna!!” What are you, 9? Personally, I find nothing stupid about getting free cable.
@jimroscovius You can hide it in your attic. You can buy an antenna that isn't as ugly as most. Buy that ugly antenna and a Tablo or HD Homerun and be able to record what you want and you can watch it whenever you want without cable and save a thousand dollars a year easily. I have six different premium streaming services and still save $70 per month, compared to having cable. I also have way more content to watch. I can choose to only watch on demand with no commercials and save lots of time and not be bombarded with ads, too.
@@frommatorav1 Nope - not doing that. I like the ease of my cable internet and my Hulu+LiveTV. I'm still saving $90/mo over my cable TV subscription.
@bigb860 I hate antennas. So does my wife. We nice the nice, clean look. Back when we remodeled our downstairs and had cable, we ran the cable under the floor so that it was hidden. No cables or wires showing.
OFF Topic : But if they ever rebooted Babylon 5 ? You would make a Great recast for Micheal Gerabaldi !!!!!!!!!!!!! Again Like i said Off topic !!
Love that show and character.
The 't' in 'often' is silent.
You can pronounce it either way. Check your dictionary.
Both are acceptable. Which one is most common, _often_ depends on dialect or region and normalise individual preference to pronunciation.
depends on your accent
Shocking..........................🤪
Your title of this video is actually clickbait. Comcast will be around far longer than this channel
I hate NBC, I hope peacock goes under
Comcast's final day of operations November 13, 2031
At the current rate of losses, 2028 is more inline with the finality of Comcast, but the daily cancellation numbers are more probably going to increase and decrease even that projection year.
@@GeorgeVCohea This very well could be, I will check back in 2028 to see if you predicted this better than I have.
@@GreyEagleNewsDesk
It is mostly irrelevant, since Comcast will go the way of Blockbuster and Redbox soon enough. It is an unsustainable business model, and the only thing that can save it is infrastructure, which will almost certainly be taken care of by a competent company, that did not engage in the worst monopolistic customer service.
My Spectrum broadband Internet just went up to 84.00 a month. No excuse for that and I'm looking for other options.
…and there’s the other reason 🙄🫠🫨
Internet is $100 a month no matter WHERE you go! It’s not going to change. People are just pissed at CrapCast because of added fees and cost. But it’s no different basically elsewhere.
Comcast karma 😂😂