Want to lock in your internet rate for 5 years? Comcast Xfinity has a deal for you - with some catches

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You mightiness beryllium paying much for many things soon, but immoderate net providers are taking steps to guarantee your broadband prices enactment the aforesaid – mostly. 

Days aft Verizon announced a three-year terms fastener for compartment service, Comcast is rolling retired a five-year terms fastener for its Xfinity broadband service. 

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The institution says this connection is nationwide and applies to plans ranging from $55 a period for 400 Mbps to $105 a period for 2.1 Gbps. If you're connected an eligible plan, your terms volition enactment the aforesaid for 5 years with nary further contract. The institution says you tin cancel astatine immoderate clip with nary penalty.

The net supplier lost much than 139,000 subscribers successful the past 4th of 2024, much than the projected fig of 100,000, truthful it makes consciousness that it's scrambling to pull caller customers. 

Just a fewer months ago, Comcast introduced ultra-low-latency internet designed for gaming, videoconferencing, and virtual world and gave millions of customers a escaped velocity boost astatine nary further charge.

Steve Croney, Comcast's main operating serviceman of connectivity and platforms, said the connection was astir "addressing 2 important user symptom points -- rising costs and transparency."

Any promotion of this benignant has immoderate caveats. Just due to the fact that you're "locked in" doesn't mean that you'll ne'er wage more. 

First, you indispensable beryllium connected autopay with a stored slope relationship and paperless billing to instrumentality vantage of this offer. Second, the "price lock" doesn't see taxes and those ever-ubiquitous "fees and different applicable charges," which Comcast says are taxable to change. Additionally, regular rates use if you cancel and restart oregon downgrade your work and support it. Lastly, possibly the biggest drawback -- it's for caller residential customers only.

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The connection ends connected June 23.

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