Posted on 10/09/2007 9:43:10 AM PDT by BGHater
Ma Bell knows phone service better than a cable company ever will.
Hmmm...
She meant to say, “Can you hear me know?”
I think I would have to give her a standing ovation in court. Ha...
One week trying to get all this fixed almost gave me a heart attack. The operators were so so soothing and sympathetic but did nothing. Half the time they'd put me on hold and then disconnect me. Sometimes I just got cut off in the middle of the conversation.
Day 8 my wife went up to the Charter retail store in the mall and told the counter guy and everyone in the store the story and refused to leave until he gave her the number of a local manager, which he finally did (the operators on the national contact number steadfastly refused to do this). After about 10 calls to this guy he finally sent someone out to fix the mess.
Is there a legal defense fund?
1-666-Comcast. Toll free number of the antichrist.
I went with Verizon FiOS TV and Internet just to not have to give money to Comcast, among other reasons.
However...Verizon’s billing is the worst piece of crap I’ve run into, but that’s another story. Basically, if you opt NOT to have Verizon phone service but want the internet and TV service with FiOS...billing is a nightmare.
The day that AT&T runs fiber past my house, Comcast is history.
Meanwhile, in other news:
"PHILADELPHIA — The chairman and chief executive of Comcast (CMCSA), the nation's largest cable television operator, received a 2006 compensation package valued by the company at $27.8 million, according to a proxy statement filed with federal regulators Thursday.
Brian Roberts was given a salary of $2.5 million, a bonus of $3 million, incentive awards worth $8.4 million and other perks valued at $2.9 million, which included personal use of the company plane, contributions to retirement plans and payment of tax liabilities and insurance policies."
Comcast systematically bought up all the old
TV service providers around the nation. In
effect they tried to run the operation on
old, outdated, and much-bweathered cable lines
which ran above the ground, through peoples’
back yards and mangled by overgrown tree branches.
DSeaperate and immediate repairsa were the first
major consideration.
Some communities no longer allow above ground
cable lines and insist the companies install
underground cables like the phone companies
now must do. THAT’s an expensive undertaking!
Comcast wasn’t prepared for dishing out the
kind of money entailed in moderniZing service.
When they took over our USCable company here in
ILlinois, I wondered why the SUITS in the head
offices didn’t checked on WHY the old cable
companies were in the market for selling out.
Guess they found out!
I would suggest that there are a few whip companies in the next town over that said the same thing about getting transportation to move faster. Unfortunately, cars and trucks didn’t need whips.
The paradigm has shifted and Ma bell (or her descendants) need to shift with it.
Sounds like Comcast is adopting the America Online customer service model.
I rather doubt that. I can't picture Comcast allowing its employees to be put on the stand by her defense attorneys. Comcast will ask well before the trial date to have the charges dropped. They'd do it right now, except that if they did it while the story's hot the media would give the move heavy coverage, and they'd immediately have hordes of customers showing up at their offices brandishing hammers, baseball bats, you name it.
I don’t think we have Concast out here just Cox, Dish and DirectTV. I hate Dish as it must go out at least once a day.
You and a thousand other people who actually live nearby. That’s another reason the trial will never happen.
My Dish service is great. I’ll lose the signal in a heavy rain but only momentarily.
I’ve been with Packet8 phone service via my Comcast cable internet service for around two years, and have had no real problems to speak of.
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