Cable contract

In 1999, Islesworth residents approved a 10-year bulk cable contract that provides basic cable to all our homes at a deeply discounted rate. At the end of that contract, the cost to residents was just $15.65 a month – an incredibly low price held in check because of the bulk cable contract.

That original contract expired in 2009, and Comcast presented new contract options to Islesworth to continue guaranteed discounts. The 2009 budget proposal included pricing for a bulk cable package that would have cost $56 a month individually but in bulk will only cost residents $28.50 (for the first year of the contract). The cable charge is included in the quarterly HOA fee.

The $28.50 fee, our Islesworth bulk agreement price for Basic/Extended/Digital Starter services, is applied to upgraded accounts.

Islesworth's new 10-year bulk cable contract with Comcast took effect in August 2009. The package is called Full Basic plus Digital Starter Service, which consists of basic and expanded cable channels plus the Digital Starter tier. It includes one converter box and remote, 1,700 hours of free video on demand (VOD) programming, and 45 channels of music.

Additional services you have or want -- such as more converter boxes, remote controls, premium channels and Internet service would still be billed separately through Comcast.

Please visit www.comcast.com or call 1-800-COMCAST or (772) 692-9010 for updates about the channel lineup and your own billing questions.

Here is the channel lineup as of September 2010 (PDF).