(Note to new Roku users: Buy the Roku 3 and hard-wire it with an Ethernet cable. Much better than Wi-Fi).
Here come the local meetings with five burly guys in the office, to walk folks out after they find out how Comcast plans on making bigger profits in the future.
We have Time Warner Cable here... They are SO PITIFUL, they make me pine for the days of InsightBB.
Never thought I’d say that when I had Insight.
I can only imagine how bad service is going to get.
One more Obama achievement.
Comcast sucks sideways. Wanna talk to them on the phone? Better be ready to wait for an hour or two. Wanna go pick something up at the service center? Bring a sleeping bag. Wanna have them come out and figure out why their xfinity on demand never works? It is because your inside wires must not be right or something else. And why is my signal so weak? Because you need to buy a few more wireless routers and put them all over the house.
15mbs at just $39.95 a month...after the first month standard rates apply at $79.99 for 15mbs. Additional fees will apply for viewing websites outside the Comcast family.
We have Comcast. I’d love to change, but there’s no real alternative. They charge enormous prices, and give zero service if something goes wrong.
But I will say, our internet service is very fast, and much more reliable than it used to be.
Obviously they won’t use any of the money they save to lower prices. Because they’ll be a bigger monopoly than ever.
Bank on job cuts.
Regulatory approval? Bet that’s already in the bag.
For history fans, this could be the cable version of the old Standard Oil, with a near monopoly.
Translation from this side of the cable, if you hate Comcast now, you’re really going to them later.
Enormous opportunities to polish their resumes, hit the job market, and get to know the fine folks at the unemployment office.
Comcast = Self fulfilling prophecy of destruction within.
Why should they be terrified? They are about to be liberated. No more drudgery, just stay home with the kids and pay those obamacare premiums.
Mergers always mean job loss.
Great confusion during the reorganization, then job cuts, department consolidations, and then higher prices.
From What I have always gathered. Comcast is way more expensive than Time Warner. And their service just plain sucks. You can get a fairly local time Warner Service Tech on the phone in a very reasonable amount of time. And time Warner does not cap Bandwidth.
15000 - 20000 layoffs coming up.
7,000 jobs.
emloyees will be politically purged
I have cable modem and basic cable for 25 years and Time Warner customer service and tech support have been terrific. Never had a problem. Great service.
Not really. That’s a completely separate issue and the trends are such that I don’t expect it to be an issue. The network to your home will carry voice, video, and data and the same company will provide access to all, so there’s no benefit to giving preference to one type of data packet over another. Comcast just wants to increase its share of the bandwidth-delivery business, and buying all of TWCs customers is a good way of doing that quickly.
This is how all M&A deals are paid for - synergies achieved through combining and consolidating operations and then eliminating duplication. For example, there are two corporate headquarters now - they only need one. Guess which it will be?
God I hope this isn’t approved. Horrible cable service will become triple horrible.