UPC CABLECOM price increase spring 2015

Tech, TV, Mobile, Internet and Geek Corner
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from my experience I have noticed that Romania is very well connected in the tech industry especially in programming and research with many of the major tech companies outsourcing to Romania. Romanians are the biggest number of foreign employees at Microsoft. Additionally the Romanians in diaspora are the biggest in a number of countries like Spain, Italy and large numbers in the UK France Germany and the USA. Probably around 5 million Romanians live in various countries around the world with about 4 million Romanians living in Western Europe. That's half of the population of Switzerland... I remember reading a news article stating that Romanians in diaspora sent home approximately 4 billion euros in 2013.

Thats is a big market and many special phone and TV services are targeted at these millions of Romanians living in the diaspora, which requires this modern digital communication system

Its difficult to compare Romania to the other eastern block countries because Romania is a latin culture in a slavic sea... Romania is very open and diverse while the slavic countries are very closed in and devoted to their culture...

this article offers some insight "With A Talent War In The Valley, Perhaps Romania Has The Answers?"

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/05/wit...s-the-answers/

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some say that size and speed dont matter

April 22, 2015

Romania has 9 of the world’s top 15 cities with fastest broadband internet

Nine cities in Romania are among the top 15 cities in the world with the highest download speed of fixed broadband internet connections, according to Ookla Net Index.

Ploiesti, a city 60 kilometers north of the capital Bucharest, has the fastest broadband internet in Romania, with an average download speed of 102.35 Mbps, as of April 22, 2015. Ploiesti also ranks third in the world, after Singapore and Hong Kong’s central district.

Iasi has the second fastest broadband connection in Romania and the fifth fastest in the world, with an average speed of 101.43 Mbps.

The capital Bucharest comes next, with an average download speed of 95.18 Mbps, followed by Timisoara (86.55 Mbps), Galati (83.24 Mbps), Constanta (77.73 Mbps), Cluj-Napoca (75.14 Mbps) Oradea (70.95 Mbps) and Brasov (66.73 Mbps).

All these Romanian cities are in the top 15 in the world ranked on the average download speed provided by fixed broadband connections, ahead of Tokyo, Seoul, and New York, among others.

Broadband internet download speeds worldwide by Ookla

The average download speed of fixed broadband connections in Romania is 72.15 Mbps, the third highest in the world, after those in Singapore and Hong Kong. The average download speed of fixed broadband connections worldwide is 23 Mbps.

Romania is also tenth in the world on the average upload speed of fixed broadband connections, with 36.19 Mbps, compared to a global average of 10.7 Mbps.

Constanta is the Romanian city with the highest upload speed, of 48.9 Mbps, which makes it ninth in the world. Brasov is a close second, with 48.51 Mbps, then come Oradea (47.69 Mbps), Iasi (44.44 Mbps), and Galati (42.70 Mbps). The capital Bucharest is sixth, with an average upload speed of 38.16 Mbps, followed by Cluj-Napoca and Timisoara.

Internet in Romania is also cheap, despite the high performance. The median monthly cost per Megabit per second (Mbps) in Romania is USD 0.71, as calculated by Ookla. Only Bulgaria and Russia have lower internet prices.

Ookla is the global leader in broadband testing and web-based network diagnostic applications. The Net Index rankings are based on the average speed in Mbps recorded in speed tests made all over the world over the past 30 days.

Romania, well below EU average on Internet use, but ranks high on speed

Speedy Internet infrastructure to cost Romania EUR 3.9 bln

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Fantastic, but watch out for the horse drawn carts ...

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and 20% of the EUROPOL cyber police are Romanian police officers...

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Maybe we can have a new thread titled "UPC Cablecom price increase Summer 2015"

www.upc-cablecom.ch/en/bundles/horizon-trios/

Horizon Start, Plus and Super Trio cost each 4 CHF/month more than the equivalent Combi bundles. Internet speed also increases, though.

Digicard and Cable HD bundles are gone altogether.

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They've also increased the "replay" from 30 hours to 7 days for some plans, which is cool. I'm tempted to change. Yes, it costs 4 CHF more per month but there's a 40 CHF a month saving for the first two months on the "plus combi", so 80 CHF.

Edit: Changed, although I was on some previous deal so my internet connection will actually drop from 250Mbps to 200. Not that I'll notice.

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We didn't have 'replay' until it suddenly appeared yesterday! From what I read it is free, haven't tried it out yet.

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Honestly I think cablecom is killing a chunk of its customer base. many people use the Digicard and absolutely hate the HD mediabox. The site is still fragmented with some pages showing the digicard and others not and pages mixed between old and new offers.

Will have to wait and see what options (if any) come up!

Edit1: just did a package with combine your own and the same package as the Horizon Plus Trio but with digicard is now 134CHF as appose to the 85CHF it used to be (only difference is the new 200 speed as appose to old 125)! Simply MAD

Edit2: I am wrong or have they also increased their activation charges, I remember it being 49CHF now its 79CHF, am I wrong?

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You're right, they increased in April IIRC.

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Cablecom keeps slowly raising their prices, I think I need to start shopping around and see if there's better deals out there. Comparis used to compared ISP's, they don't do that anymore, or am I just missing it?

https://en.comparis.ch/

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it is still there but hidden under other pages, here is a direct link to both Telco and ISP compare

https://en.comparis.ch/telekommunikation.aspx

although from the looks of things, it is not up-to-date

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Correction: in April they increased activation fees from 49 to 69 CHF. Now they've increased them again, to 79.

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That's for new customers only - before, they charged those to existing customers as well. That's no longer the case - anyone with a subscription can switch for free.

Plus they didn't actually increase the subscription fees, either - for 129 you now get 500 mbit/s internet, which is double of what they offered before. Nobody forces anyone to upgrade.

I would have loved to upgrade, but they've gotten rid of the multi-room option for the new subscription and since we have a wired network that spans the entire house, I need the network modem to be in the cellar.

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The problem here is that the existing modems can't handle 500 mbit/s. The only thing they have right now that does is the new Horizon box (they'll even replace your old Horizon box if you upgrade to the new Trio thing). So what they're offering you is a Horzion box + Digicard for 134.

Also, the activation fees were increased, but that at the same time, they've gotten rid of them for existing customers.

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I don't think this is the case for the internet 200MB. It is for the 500MB but One can't even chose to have the 500MB with any other tv package except the Horizon Comfort, note their website "Internet 500 is only available with Horizon Comfort"! ie no digicard with the 500Mb option.

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Yes, exactly: you need a Horizon box to get the 500 mbit/s connection as that one is the only one with a modem in it that actually supports that speed. That's why there's no digicard-only option for this package.

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Is anyone else having problems with their cablecom internet? I feel like the prices go up and the service goes down. Our service seems to get dropped or slow way down multiple times per day.

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Can't say I do - had to get the new Horizon box exchanged twice because the first one sounded like a vacuum cleaner and on the second one the phone didn't work, but now everything works *knock on wood* - including the Internet. The whole 475 mbit/s that is :-)

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Your current box is not noisy at all, or just intermittent?

Mine gets pretty toasty too in terms of temperature.

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I currently have Horizon Go with an old box, not the Horizon uni-box and the new Horizon-Plus-Trio offer looks very interesting with nearly double the speed, more HD channels and more movie channels.

question:

does anyone know if upgrading to Horizon Plus Trio offer, do I need to pay CHF 79.00 as the activation fees? been 8 years with Cablecom if that is any consideration?