Comcast’s rates are increasing again. Here’s what to expect. - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Comcast, the largest U.S. cablegram and net provider, is erstwhile again raising prices connected its TV and net services, a twelvemonth after the Philadelphia-based institution past hiked rates.

Starting Dec. 20, customers nationwide volition spot their rates summation by 3.8%, connected average, institution spokesperson Jennifer Bilotta said. In December 2021, the mean complaint summation was 3%.

“TV networks and different video programmers proceed to rise their prices, with broadcast tv and sports being the biggest drivers of increases successful customers’ bills,” Bilotta said Monday successful a statement.

The monthly outgo of a modem rental, arsenic good arsenic broadcast and determination sports fees, has astir doubled since 2018, according to an Inquirer analysis. A enactment connected immoderate caller Xfinity bills said that the latest emergence successful prices is “in effect to increases successful expenses impacting our services,” which includes retransmission costs imposed by TV networks.

Bilotta noted that Comcast’s “national mean summation of 3.8% is astir fractional of the astir caller complaint of inflation.”

Comcast reported amended third-quarter net than analysts had anticipated, contempt a flimsy gross decline, the nonaccomplishment of 561,000 cablegram customers, and continued contention from streaming services, which person besides accrued prices successful caller years. In the 2nd quarter, Comcast didn’t adhd immoderate broadband customers for the archetypal clip ever.

The much than 2 cardinal Comcast customers successful the Philadelphia portion volition spot their monthly broadcast and determination sports fees summation aboriginal this month.

The broadcast TV interest — which covers NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox — volition emergence to $21.30, an 11% summation from the existent complaint of $19.15, according to caller lawsuit bills.

The determination sports interest for channels specified arsenic NBC Sports Philadelphia volition beryllium $13.35, up 5% from the existent complaint of $12.70, according to the bills.

TV stations began charging cablegram providers for retransmitting their networks successful the precocious 2000s, and cablegram providers added these fees for customers.

In 2016, Comcast’s broadcast interest was $5, portion its determination sports interest was $3.

This year, the outgo of a TV container and distant volition besides tick up to $10, a 17% summation from the existent complaint of $8.50.

If you rent a modem from Comcast, your monthly complaint volition summation to $15, up 7% from the existent complaint of $14, according to lawsuit bills.

Those with the company’s Performance Pro net — which provides 300 megabits-per-second of download velocity and 5-10 megabits-per-second of upload velocity — volition spot the terms emergence to $102, a 3% summation from $98.95.

This summation volition not impact radical who are connected a promotional plan, specified arsenic the 1 that offers Performance Pro for $34.99 to $44.99 for 12 months.

If you are having fiscal difficulty, you whitethorn beryllium eligible to person $30 a period disconnected your net measure done a federal program. You tin get much accusation astatine fcc.gov/acp.