I hope all government-enforced monopolies go bankrupt.
Shake hands with Blockbuster video.
Times change...
Cable has been losing about 4 million per year.
We cut cable last year. Best decision. There is far more content outside of cable.
I wish I had them... all I can get here is crappy ATT that goes out all the time, despite numerous attempts to “fix” it...
All that money spent buying NBC when it turns out they should have thought about buying Sprint.
Comcast legal department: single largest (by dollar amount) group of bundlers for Obama’s re-election campaign. Had to be big for Hillary!, too.
Xfinity slow and expensive and customer service difficult to obtain and rude and unhelpful when can get them.
They deserve this.
Comcast is a true American enemy. Stockholders promote Anti-American propaganda.
An MSNBC or NBC propagandist is your enemy
A worker in a Comcast pick up is your enemy
I will forgive subscribers that must rely on the Comcast high speed internet
Several months ago my Comcast bill increased to $250 a month. I will be the first to admit I carry too much in services (4 boxes, DVR, Premium stations) but still, $250 was excessive. I contacted Verizon who gave me a rate of $180. Comcast would not budge from their excessive price so I now have Verizon as my internet and cable provider. Last week a Comcast guy came to my front door and offered the same for $120. I told him to come back in a few years.
Good! Die! Die! Die! May the marketplace crush you for insulting half your customers!
They lost me with the voice activated Remote. Amazon’s “Alexa”, was it, was found to be spying on people? I figured Comcast was trying the same thing with the Voice Activated Remote....that’s ALWAYS LISTENING to you. Ditto the Blue All-Seeing Eye on the Comcast DVR. Screw that!
This company has the WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE EVER. They keep turning up #1 in polls on that subject, yet have done little to address the issue other than investing more in PR and spin.
I understand cable cutting but internet options are limited to just one or two providers in most areas.
Is tethering from mobile broadband causing a shift away from landline providers?
This is great - it’s about time AT&T and Verizon started going out and competing. They could be very fine companies, if they used the skills they have and stopped with the overpriced acquisitions.
Comcast at the first of the year levied a $25 monthly increase on our non negotiable package.
Then, they announced another increase, a little over $25/month which would have made our monthly bill a little over $255/month starting with this July’s bill.
As senior citizens, they used to allow us to negotiate the prices because we didn’t use most of their junk channels. That negotiation stopped last year.
We never watched any of the Follyweird Movie Channels, and I believe that 6 were in our non negotiable package.
So we messed around with Roku, and my wife kept track of the channels we watched. We have not watched fake news from ABCNNBCBS for over a decade. We pulled the plug on Faux News last January. Thanks to the anti America Former Niners, we/I stopped watching ESPN and any NFL shows.
She discovered, what I knew already was: We never watched NBC, one show on ABC and a handful CBS shows.
We had started watching Amazon Prime via our Roku and semi smart tv set about a year ago. A $5 monthly charge for Acorn opened the door to hundreds of great Brit tv series and shows. Another small monthly charge allowed us to go to the concert site on Acorn.
The Roku seemed to be not that great, so when Amazon Prime came out with their Fire Tv system. I ordered it and we really liked it.
Thanks to Code Toad’s recommendation to go to Comcast Business. We now have a very fast internet and two phones for $105/month. That fast internet lets me stream the tv shows we want to watch.
I added the Sling #2 package to get ABC for the one show my wife watched and to watch our going underwater SF Giants.
We will probably pull the plug on Sling and ABC after the baseball season is over. The show, my wife used to watch was the Kelly and ?? in the morning. She doesn’t care for Kelly’s new co host and stopped watching because all Kelly has on as guests are liberal Follywood people, liberal Broadway people and liberals hosts like Anderson Cooper from CNN. That will save us about another $35/month.
I am averaging at least one person/family per week asking me how to cut their cable due to the high prices and crap never watched and being charged for that crap.
A younger relative couple, still addicted to Faux news and Faux’s business channel, opted for the YouTube tv package in their area. They get a lot of channels for $35/month. They live in an area with “free” live tv. They bought an indoor tv antenna, and they were on Comcast business internet to stream the YouTube channels. Instead of over $200/month going to Comcast, they are now paying $35 for the YouTube. They will use their savings to buy a new Amazon 4K tv and enjoy Prime TV on it and their YouTube package.
The cable TV monopoly id dying on the vine. People have demanded reasonably priced ala carte programming and cable and satellite have not complied as that’s not how they negotiate pricing.
SO, people are taking things into their own hands, they now really only need good internet. Seriously, I don’t watch CNN or NBC or MSNBC and many other fake news stations, so why in the world must I pay. Well, technology is now allowing me to cut our both cable and now I use over the air and internet and fire tv etc and soon I will make drastic changes to how I consume TV.
It’s my only option for internet until my old brain figures out how to cast my cell phone to the TV. And I’m working on it.
Free tv offers more than I need. And I’ve noticed that this year more college football games are on free tv. Maybe the colleges are losing donors because they can’t watch their favorite teams unless they pay for cable and ESPN.
Bookmark.
Been also thinking of dropping cable and there is good info here.
I would consider it, but there are few alternatives where I live.
Mobile internet is way too expensive compared to cable. Mobile is deceptive with their ‘unlimited’ plans. Cable internet is significantly the better value. But, cable here requires the basic tier of cableTV to get cableInternet.
DSL is only marginally available, as the phone company doesn’t want to invest in equipment or connections.
OTA TV is almost non-extent — 2, possibly 3, channels are all that can be picked up on those flat indoor antennas. Outside antennas are out of the question, since I live in an apartment complex.
Streaming services are popping up all over the internet, but the ones that I have looked at are doing the same thing the cable/satellite providers do — sell their TV channels in groups/tiers. Those tiers may run a few $$$ less, but the quality is usually significantly less, too.
The company that finally comes out with true ala-carte channel selecting could dominate the market in a few years.
The problem is that the Providers want too much money for stuff I do not want, all inconveniently put together in bundles. The modern generations will not put up with that and are seeking other, any, alternatives. The providers need to appoint some teenage nerds as advisers and listen to them and act on their advice. Providers are currently run by ‘last century’ management.
and the fake news Russia ratings bubble just popped :P