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Yeah , tell me about it! That is the image that keeps me from getting cable.I know you have thought of Satellite TV and Internet! Any reason you didn't subscribe to the cheaper "DISH" provider?
Yes, because some of my neighbors have DISH and Direct TV and they don't seem too happy with them. In the old days I had a 13 foot dish and the picture was EXCELLENT. The price was also reasonable - until they figured out how to gouge on dish. I like cable because it seems the most reliable. They are all gouging.
I don't have cable TV OR DISH. If I want to see a movie I go to Red Box and rent one . For news,sports and other entertainment I use XM radio.
I feel great about that!
I understand, but I appreciate the convenience of instant TV when I want. I just don't like feeling like I'm buying a used car each month from some shyster in alligator shoes.
Dish is still a rip off, and ISPs like Verizon/Comcast/Time Warner over-state data use to try and stop consumers watching Netflix at high quality.I know you have thought of Satellite TV and Internet! Any reason you didn't subscribe to the cheaper "DISH" provider?
Why does Comcast impose data caps on its customers?
According to one spectacularly ill-informed customer service representative, the company does this because it's "mandated by the law."
A Comcast customer who is in one of the trial areas where Comcast charges overage fees when customers exceed data allotments called to cancel his service and received the bizarre explanation. In a reddit post, the now former Comcast customer wrote that he had been charged $120 in overage fees.
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Comcast in 2012 ended a policy in which it would cut people's service off after they use 250GB in a month, replacing it with plans that charge customers extra when they go over the limit. Although this is what most people think of as a "data cap," Comcast says it's not a cap, because customers can use as much as they want if they don't mind paying more.
Hell kid I will save you the trouble on a Dish HD satellite dish, I have one that I don't useYeah , tell me about it! That is the image that keeps me from getting cable.I know you have thought of Satellite TV and Internet! Any reason you didn't subscribe to the cheaper "DISH" provider?
Yes, because some of my neighbors have DISH and Direct TV and they don't seem too happy with them. In the old days I had a 13 foot dish and the picture was EXCELLENT. The price was also reasonable - until they figured out how to gouge on dish. I like cable because it seems the most reliable. They are all gouging.
I don't have cable TV OR DISH. If I want to see a movie I go to Red Box and rent one . For news,sports and other entertainment I use XM radio.
I feel great about that!
I understand, but I appreciate the convenience of instant TV when I want. I just don't like feeling like I'm buying a used car each month from some shyster in alligator shoes.
As an aside, I wonder who owns the satellite beaming the programs to earth? Didn't the taxpayers pay for the rockets that put them in space?
I'd like to build my own DISH, decoder and receiving apparatus if it's legal... hmmm, something to check into I guess!
It won't be of any use to me if tapping into the satellite signals on my own is illegal! I have to research THAT first!Hell kid I will save you the trouble on a Dish HD satellite dish, I have one that I don't useYeah , tell me about it! That is the image that keeps me from getting cable.I know you have thought of Satellite TV and Internet! Any reason you didn't subscribe to the cheaper "DISH" provider?
Yes, because some of my neighbors have DISH and Direct TV and they don't seem too happy with them. In the old days I had a 13 foot dish and the picture was EXCELLENT. The price was also reasonable - until they figured out how to gouge on dish. I like cable because it seems the most reliable. They are all gouging.
I don't have cable TV OR DISH. If I want to see a movie I go to Red Box and rent one . For news,sports and other entertainment I use XM radio.
I feel great about that!
I understand, but I appreciate the convenience of instant TV when I want. I just don't like feeling like I'm buying a used car each month from some shyster in alligator shoes.
As an aside, I wonder who owns the satellite beaming the programs to earth? Didn't the taxpayers pay for the rockets that put them in space?
I'd like to build my own DISH, decoder and receiving apparatus if it's legal... hmmm, something to check into I guess!
WASHINGTON -- Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter on Friday accusing big cable companies of using monopoly powers to muscle consumers into paying higher prices.
In the letter, addressed to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler, Sanders and Warren wrote that mega-mergers have left over 60 percent of Americans with no choice whatsoever when it comes to their cable and Internet providers. This state of things, they wrote, makes it possible for companies to jack up prices without losing customers to competition. Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) also signed the letter.
"As the telecommunications industry becomes increasingly concentrated, this lack of choice has resulted in huge price increases and often poor service for consumers," the senators wrote. "There are now de facto telecommunications monopolies throughout the United States."
The letter noted that a new merger between Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications would only exacerbate the problem, saying that recent Time Warner price increases suggest the cable giant is already insulated from normal market pressures. Modem rental charges for Time Warner have jumped 203 percent since they were introduced in 2012, according to the letter. The FCC has the power to block the TWC-Charter deal.
"Given the lack of incentive for companies to provide better quality service and competitive prices, it is no surprise that individuals rank cable and Internet providers last in customer satisfaction when compared to other companies in other industries," the senators wrote.
Sanders and his colleagues asked for the FCC to publish a host of cable and broadband pricing data, so consumers could see how much they pay compared to customers in other areas. They asked the FCC to provide average prices for each state and each cable provider, and also asked the agency to publicize the average prices in urban areas compared to those in rural markets.
Read the full letter here.
More: Bernie Sanders: The Cable Bill Is Too Damn High
I totally agree with Bernie and Elizabeth. I hate cable companies. I've always hated cable companies. I always feel so unclean - and stupid - when I receive the monthly cable bill. I wouldn't feel that way if there was more competition and I had more options for cable service. I pay to watch that shit - then they bombard me with those insulting fucking commercials. They are very clever how they bundle their channels so you can't just subscribe to only the channels you want. Then, to add insult to injury, I am bombarded with endless fucking cable company commercials for TV, Internet, phone and home security bundling. They are legalized mafia. I hate cable companies.
WASHINGTON -- Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter on Friday accusing big cable companies of using monopoly powers to muscle consumers into paying higher prices.
In the letter, addressed to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler, Sanders and Warren wrote that mega-mergers have left over 60 percent of Americans with no choice whatsoever when it comes to their cable and Internet providers. This state of things, they wrote, makes it possible for companies to jack up prices without losing customers to competition. Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) also signed the letter.
"As the telecommunications industry becomes increasingly concentrated, this lack of choice has resulted in huge price increases and often poor service for consumers," the senators wrote. "There are now de facto telecommunications monopolies throughout the United States."
The letter noted that a new merger between Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications would only exacerbate the problem, saying that recent Time Warner price increases suggest the cable giant is already insulated from normal market pressures. Modem rental charges for Time Warner have jumped 203 percent since they were introduced in 2012, according to the letter. The FCC has the power to block the TWC-Charter deal.
"Given the lack of incentive for companies to provide better quality service and competitive prices, it is no surprise that individuals rank cable and Internet providers last in customer satisfaction when compared to other companies in other industries," the senators wrote.
Sanders and his colleagues asked for the FCC to publish a host of cable and broadband pricing data, so consumers could see how much they pay compared to customers in other areas. They asked the FCC to provide average prices for each state and each cable provider, and also asked the agency to publicize the average prices in urban areas compared to those in rural markets.
Read the full letter here.
More: Bernie Sanders: The Cable Bill Is Too Damn High
I totally agree with Bernie and Elizabeth. I hate cable companies. I've always hated cable companies. I always feel so unclean - and stupid - when I receive the monthly cable bill. I wouldn't feel that way if there was more competition and I had more options for cable service. I pay to watch that shit - then they bombard me with those insulting fucking commercials. They are very clever how they bundle their channels so you can't just subscribe to only the channels you want. Then, to add insult to injury, I am bombarded with endless fucking cable company commercials for TV, Internet, phone and home security bundling. They are legalized mafia. I hate cable companies.
What are Sanders and Warren going to do about middle class income tax rates being too high? Reclassify or redefine what is middle class?
They'll just push the magic number even higher so more of the tax burden is shifted to those already paying out the nose.WASHINGTON -- Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter on Friday accusing big cable companies of using monopoly powers to muscle consumers into paying higher prices.
In the letter, addressed to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler, Sanders and Warren wrote that mega-mergers have left over 60 percent of Americans with no choice whatsoever when it comes to their cable and Internet providers. This state of things, they wrote, makes it possible for companies to jack up prices without losing customers to competition. Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) also signed the letter.
"As the telecommunications industry becomes increasingly concentrated, this lack of choice has resulted in huge price increases and often poor service for consumers," the senators wrote. "There are now de facto telecommunications monopolies throughout the United States."
The letter noted that a new merger between Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications would only exacerbate the problem, saying that recent Time Warner price increases suggest the cable giant is already insulated from normal market pressures. Modem rental charges for Time Warner have jumped 203 percent since they were introduced in 2012, according to the letter. The FCC has the power to block the TWC-Charter deal.
"Given the lack of incentive for companies to provide better quality service and competitive prices, it is no surprise that individuals rank cable and Internet providers last in customer satisfaction when compared to other companies in other industries," the senators wrote.
Sanders and his colleagues asked for the FCC to publish a host of cable and broadband pricing data, so consumers could see how much they pay compared to customers in other areas. They asked the FCC to provide average prices for each state and each cable provider, and also asked the agency to publicize the average prices in urban areas compared to those in rural markets.
Read the full letter here.
More: Bernie Sanders: The Cable Bill Is Too Damn High
I totally agree with Bernie and Elizabeth. I hate cable companies. I've always hated cable companies. I always feel so unclean - and stupid - when I receive the monthly cable bill. I wouldn't feel that way if there was more competition and I had more options for cable service. I pay to watch that shit - then they bombard me with those insulting fucking commercials. They are very clever how they bundle their channels so you can't just subscribe to only the channels you want. Then, to add insult to injury, I am bombarded with endless fucking cable company commercials for TV, Internet, phone and home security bundling. They are legalized mafia. I hate cable companies.
What are Sanders and Warren going to do about middle class income tax rates being too high? Reclassify or redefine what is middle class?
There's an easy fix. Cancel the cable. I just finally did it and I am free.Although I applaud Bernie and Elizabeth - I know I'll never live long enough to see this cable price gouging mess cleaned up.
Better yet, why don't Sanders and Warren first reduce the cable tax burden that is impacting the poor and middle class? Control
What they can on the federal portion and get state and local authorities on board with them to refuce cable taxes?
Better yet, why don't Sanders and Warren first reduce the cable tax burden that is impacting the poor and middle class? Control
What they can on the federal portion and get state and local authorities on board with them to refuce cable taxes?
How would that be "better yet"?
