[MSchad]

Currently have their 500 mbp flat $50 plan which includes all taxes and fees. Looking at their 950 Mbp price for life plan for $65 a month. It states it “excludes” taxes and fees. If anyone else has the plan, can you share how much these excluded taxes and fees charge comes to. TIA

[Guinness835]

Originally Posted by MSchad

Currently have their 500 mbp flat $50 plan which includes all taxes and fees. Looking at their 950 Mbp price for life plan for $65 a month. It states it “excludes” taxes and fees. If anyone else has the plan, can you share how much these excluded taxes and fees charge comes to. TIA

Ours is $50 a month, tax and fees included. We’ve had them since April. That does include the $5/month discount for auto-pay. We have the 500mbps plan and its plenty fast for us with no issues. I don’t know what the additional taxes and fees were for the 950 mbps plan, but unless you really need those speeds, the 500mbps should suffice. We have Wi-Fi cameras, thermostat, doorbell, garage door opener and TV’s and more all connected and we have no lag or speed issues at all.

[jrref]

Originally Posted by MSchad

Currently have their 500 mbp flat $50 plan which includes all taxes and fees. Looking at their 950 Mbp price for life plan for $65 a month. It states it “excludes” taxes and fees. If anyone else has the plan, can you share how much these excluded taxes and fees charge comes to. TIA

Which Village are you located in?

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by MSchad

Currently have their 500 mbp flat $50 plan which includes all taxes and fees. Looking at their 950 Mbp price for life plan for $65 a month. It states it “excludes” taxes and fees. If anyone else has the plan, can you share how much these excluded taxes and fees charge comes to. TIA

I don't have Quantum so I don't have a bill to share but there is a Quantum page that covers taxes and fees on your bill.

If you give Quantum the benefit of the doubt, these fees are set by local Govts. and are out of Quantum's control so it seems reasonable to pass increases along to the customer.

If you are skeptical then "excludes taxes and fees" is a way of saying the price is set for life until they decide to increase it.

[jrref]

I help a lot of people here in the Villages sign-up for Quantum and there are no taxes or fees or any other hidden charges. But this can vary depending on where you live outside the Villages which is why I asked where the OP where they live.

[bopat]

Yeah those price for life plans can be increased anytime. Currently fighting with T-Mobile over their latest price increase on a price for life plan. Contacted the fcc, ftc, Florida AG, two arbitration attorneys - nothing. Looking like I’m going to have to go to small claims court to get it resolved.

[thevillages2013]

Originally Posted by MSchad

Currently have their 500 mbp flat $50 plan which includes all taxes and fees. Looking at their 950 Mbp price for life plan for $65 a month. It states it “excludes” taxes and fees. If anyone else has the plan, can you share how much these excluded taxes and fees charge comes to. TIA

Unfortunately ( in my opinion) Lumen the parent company of Quantum Fiber is being taken over by AT&T in the near future if the regulators sign off on it. I have Quantum Fiber internet and we are very happy with it. Don’t get too stuck on that price for life pitch because “things they are a changing “.

[SeaCros]

We are south of 44 but north of much of the new stuff and we got skipped but Quantum and Centric so we are stuck with Spectrum and they don’t offer fiber. Hopefully one day they will back track to cover the fiberless areas.

[CarlR33]

If you can cancel at anytime why worry? Price for life? Would you (if you had a company) provide a service for the same price for life? Just asking.

[jrref]

What I've been seeing with Quantum is when you sign up, you lock in a price and although there have been some minor pricing adjustments in the past year, your price remains the same. In fact, about 4 months ago, Quantum raised their lower tier prices $5 and lowered their upper tier prices by $5. My neighbor who had 1GBs service, upper tier, his price was reduced by $5. No one I know of in the lower tier was raised. Internet only service providers don't have as much overhead pressure as cable companies do so no matter what happens in the future, your cost should be the most stable with an internet ISP.

The trend I see is many here in the Villages with a choice of providers stay with cable for many reasons. Much if it is they don't want to make the effort to change to streaming and fiber either because they are unable or they feel it's too much work. They tend to stay the "status quo" until something pushes them. Like, neighbors and or friends switching or the cable company giving them an increase and not negotiating a lower price. Initially, I thought it was an "age demographic" "thing" but I'm get more referrals from Villagers in their 80's who have already switched to all streaming and are very computer savy. Many use traditional Roku or Firestick devices, some AppleTV and a lot using IPTV devices such as Apollo TV. I also, see Villagers with newer 4K HDR or Dolby Vision TVs with streamers not set up properly for the higher resolution content and watching 1080P. When I fix this, they are amazed at the difference in the picture quality. But you have to subscribe to streaming serivices that have this higher resolution content to get it. Not all cost money, such as regular YouTube has a LOT of 4k and HDR content by default and Amazon Prime has more and more these days. YouTube TV has some 4k content, but not much yet. So, at the end of the day, we here in the Villages are very fortunate to have a choice of providers and although I doubt Quantum or Centric will get to Bradford, ChittyChatty and those areas south of 44 that were missed any time soon, I can tell you Quantum is expanding at an "alarming" pace up in the Bonita, Liberty Park and those surrounding areas which is nice to see.

[Mrprez]

We are in DeSoto and the total price is $65.

[jrref]

Originally Posted by Mrprez

We are in DeSoto and the total price is $65.

You have 1Gbs service.

You can get 500Mbs for $50 or ever 200Mbs for $40.

With fiber you don't need to buy a faster package like with cable because of slow-downs at peak times. You always get the speed you buy all the time so only buy what you need.

[Mrprez]

Originally Posted by jrref

You have 1Gbs service.

You can get 500Mbs for $50 or ever 200Mbs for $40.

With fiber you don't need to buy a faster package like with cable because of slow-downs at peak times. You always get the speed you buy all the time so only buy what you need.

I know what they offer. Happy with what I have.

[Boilerman]

I’m curious about those who pay for these plans with higher bandwidths. We stream multiple TVs with 4K, phones, laptops etc. and have never has an issue with quantum fiber 200 mbps. Is it gaming? Special work needs? Just curious

[jrref]

Originally Posted by Boilerman

I’m curious about those who pay for these plans with higher bandwidths. We stream multiple TVs with 4K, phones, laptops etc. and have never has an issue with quantum fiber 200 mbps. Is it gaming? Special work needs? Just curious

We have 1GBs service because my wife and I do a lot of work on our computers and just want our uploads and downloads and overall access to the internet to be as fast as possible. Also, we got in on that special $35/month deal two years ago that I don't think we will ever see again. But I agree, for the average Villager the 200Mbs is totally adequate and the 500Mbs service is more than they will ever need unless they are running a home business where they are uploading and or downloading very large files, etc.. Even when someone goes from 1GB cable to 500Mbs fiber the service will "seem" faster since you have a dedicated vs shared connection. When I help sign-up someone here in the Villages, unless they are very price sensitive I recommend the 500Mbs service to lock in the price so they will have no issues in the future if more internet bandwidth is needed. In the new areas where Quantum is being installed, you can get up to 8Gbs so they must know something will be happening in the future or why would they even set up that infrastructure especially in the Villages? We don't know what the future holds but if history tells us anything, we will need more internet bandwidth for streaming and other internet access in the coming years.

Update: last time we discussed this necessary speed question If I remember correctly there was one person who said all he needed was 100Mbs and proved to us why. Fortunately for him, Xfinity offers a super cheap service that provides these slow speeds. Its called Xfinity Now and it's $30/month for 100Mbs, I don't think there is anything cheaper here in the Villages.