5 Year Price Guarantee!

Ultibeam · 2025-04-15T10:01:27+00:00

Update on June 26, 2025: Plans have reverted to 300, 500, 1000, 2000. But, now the gateway and unlimited data are included. Bye bye 1.2TB usage cap. This is a nationwide change. https://corporate.comcast.com/press/releases/comcast-new-national-xfinity-internet-packages-unlimited-data-advanced-wifi-gateway Previously: I was just checking out what’s available and this surprised me. EDIT: These are the tiers showing for me.

Dumaine

Just noticed that the app still shows my plan at 1.1Gbps, Broadband Label has been updated for what it’s worth..

kirkyg

Man-of-Leisure for cable its a problem…not for fiber :/

kirkyg

badtlc4

Man-of-Leisure I wonder if cutting upload speeds is partly to help fully differentiate between mid-split and X-class? The X-Class plans are a bit more expensive and in order to justify those costs there probably need a bit more differentiation, is my guess.>

I believe that is exactly what they did. As twisted as it sounds, look at where they positioned the ⅕ year pricing. The goal will be to push ARPU back up by enticing people to enroll in x-class and increase rates 10-20 dollars to offset their recent decline.

They also know if everyone knows this new x-class is available in a given area everyone would want to switch over even before hardware has scaled to meet that demand and it leaves little time for comcast to make adjustments to the software side of the network. I fully expect there to be lots of chaotic network behaviors for a while. This copper technology is going to get worse and worse the higher the frequencies that are used. The people that opt for x-class will pay more for it and the people that don’t as a part of the transition comcast will be ok with that.

kirkyg

bigcoda I guess your one of the lucky ones to get the 300 Mbps option. I was just on the 400 Mbps, the change plan screen would only give me the 1000 Mbps and 2000 Mbps options. When I went down to the Xfinity store, they were only able to change me to the 1 year option for the 300 Mbps.

This is called ‘transparent’ pricing 😃

Spiderman865

Currently on a 3yr discounted plan through 4/2028 with XB-8 modem included for $70/month. But, still showing a data cap. I guess I would have to negotiate another deal to get unlimited data.

cypherstream

Spiderman865 but what’s your current upload? Like 300mbps?

Negotiate a deal and watch that shrink to less than half that.

badtlc4

Spiderman865 if you have an XB8 you likely already have unlimited data. You can’t trust the system. I have at&t fiber that has never had a data cap and my account indicates there is a 1.25TB limit even though I have hit 12TB per month.

hex0101

badtlc4 Depends on their plan (does it pre-date June 26th?), and the equipment doesn’t matter. If the customer did not get xFi Complete as part of that 3 year promotion and does not live in Comcast’s Northeast Division, then chances are they still have a data cap.

bigcoda

Spiderman865
All the older legacy post paid plans prior to June 26, 2025. Required you to have xFi Complete with there gateway to get unlimited data, with the exception of the Northeast markets. So you need to check if you have xFi Complete or not.

badtlc4

hex0101 my area never offered the 1Gbps+ plans with any other option other than xfi complete. It was only the lower speeds that you had the choice to just rent a gateway and not get xfi complete. Odds are very high with 1Gbps and XB8, unlimited data was already included.

Spiderman865

cypherstream On Wi-Fi with my laptop, between 175mbs-275mbs according to speed test results. Always different but it is a stable connection. No other options at my address other than copper wire UVerse or 5G wireless from TMO and the other cell providers. Neighborhood is less than 30yrs old but I guess AT&T is not interested in running fiber.

hex0101

Wow, existing customers being treated way better by Comcast compared to year’s past.

Got email about new customer promo and 5 year lock, do I have to call in?

Donut417

hex0101 well that’s what happens when we have competition. Even if the competition is cellular home internet. T mobile and Verizon are likely killing them. Not to mention I think AT&T is still deploying fiber in areas.

smilingbob

Donut417 Yup, they just started deploying in my hood last week. Our street got partially marked up a few days ago, so I’m guessing we’re just a few weeks out from install. ATT sure doesn’t have much on the ball for new customers though since their website still steers me to purchase their FWA rather than pre-order the fiber. Happy days ahead though, we’re still on sub-split here so looking forward to the improvement.

Chris313AllNight

smilingbob

AT&T doesn’t pre-order anything. It won’t be available for a while after the work is done. The lines were done in Nov-Dec 23 for me, but service wasn’t available until January 8th of 24. I’d recommend checking the AT&T page every few days, then order when you see it. After your Fiber service is online and working, cancel Comcast.

I very much enjoyed the phone call to one of Comcast’s call centers to cancel. You could hear the girl on the other end drooping as I pointed out they couldn’t compete with this. I do feel bad for her as she probably got reamed by her supervisor for losing a 20+ year customer. According to Comcast, I was a customer all the way back in 1997. Probably due to my parents accounts at the time over the years. I know my mom had cable accounts dating back to the 1980s.

What a history, huh?

smilingbob

Chris313AllNight Good info, thanks. Any teething pains during your first few months of the service? I remember when we went to Frontier Fiber at our old house their infrastructure took a month or so to deal with the new load.

And yeah, that’s a long history of cable for sure. I was a kid in the 80s but I’ve been a customer for ₂₀ years+ now, but my cancellation will be super simple. I just end my Prepaid Internet by taking it off auto-pay and letting it expire. The joys of not having to deal with Comcast CS.

Devious

Chris313AllNight You could hear the girl on the other end drooping as I pointed out they couldn’t compete with this.

I really doubt this is true.

Chris313AllNight

Devious

Depending on how your area is, I wouldn’t doubt it. Mine has been seen as backwater for years. Before the big Gig upgrade of 2018, I was 5 years behind in speeds. Based on current views with speeds when I had Comcast before I went to AT&T Fiber and then was forced to return 1.5 years later, they haven’t upgraded anything as far as speeds go and won’t until 26, fits in. So not really competing, sadly. Comcast is not really lighting a fire, despite having Fiber competition on the other side of the street. That’s going to hurt them.

hex0101

Chris313AllNight Was the retention specialist US based?

Chris313AllNight

hex0101

From the fact she sounded Chinese, I’m thinking not.

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