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Comcast’s Poor Service Doesn’t Discriminate: Former Comcast VP Complains About Slow Speeds

Phillip Dampier July 29, 2015 Broadband Speed, Comcast/Xfinity, Consumer News, Data Caps, Editorial & Site News 1 Comment

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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:

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.

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Spector
9 years ago

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 »

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