Rachelle Chong, a former commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission during the Clinton Administration, member of the California Broadband Task Force (2006-2008), commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission (2006-2009), and Comcast’s vice president for government affairs for the California region (2011-2013) also happens to be a Comcast broadband customer.
She took to Twitter this morning to complain the company she used to work for was giving her a fraction of the speed she was paying for.
At least Comcast’s poor service doesn’t discriminate. Less prominent customers are experiencing the same issues:
I feel like if @comcast internet is reliably running at 20% of the speed I pay for I should only be expected to pay for 20% of the bill.
— Brian E. McElaney (@McElaney) July 29, 2015
4th attempt to contact @comcastcares for same slow internet speed issue, no response. Left wondering what @comcast actually cares about.
— Dave Perks (@writegud) July 28, 2015
One customer isn’t too sure fast speeds matter much. He lives in one of Comcast’s usage cap test markets, where Comcast enforces a usage allowance on their Internet service, with a bill-shocking overlimit fee if you dare exceed it.
Congratulations! Comcast has increased your speed so you can now hit your data cap 50% faster! https://t.co/Vh7Y9fwkgg
— Doug McCaughan (@djuggler) July 25, 2015
From what I’ve seen, living here in Colorado, our Comcast service will be great for a short while (over 50 Mbps), then for no reason, it will slowly drop over a period of a few months. A few times I’ve had less than 1 MB/s service. Then we will get an email stating that Comcast will boost our service for FREE thanks to some unknown upgrade, just to show us how much they care about us as customers. This has happened a few times. I find it odd that with all these “FREE” upgrades, we are still rated at 54… Read more »