Comcast Rage

Former Albuquerque Mayor Jim Baca is unhappy with the ugliest utility.

Have you received your Comcast Cable bill this month? That little monopoly has raised rates again on just about everything. …

Oh, and if you want to talk to a live person at Comcast they now charge you for it. So if they provide bad service and you need help, they now charge for it.

NewMexiKen pays Comcast $65 a month JUST for internet service. There’s a $15 penalty because I don’t have television service — but if I wanted to add television I’m not eligible for any discounts because I’m an existing customer. That’s Comcast having their cake and eating it too I’d say.

Baca had a good piece the other day on the likely demise of Albuquerque’s afternoon newspaper The Tribune — Grab the Funnies. The surviving newspaper, The Albuquerque Journal, has the world’s most unappealing website. And, to my taste, the dead-tree version is about as equally ugly.