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Re: Surprised?
said by Skeedatl  :Not in my service area it's not. And Comcast was into 3X inflation price increases long before gas was 4 bucks. Skeedatl -
You might want to check your math then. Once you have facts then let us know.
Comcast raises rates just as the other TV providers do. So then you really should be mad at every company that provides TV service! As I said before Verizon Fios and AT&T UVERSE are more expensive then Comcast currently, before they were practically neck to neck on costs.
Try taking your monthly bill before tax and divide it by 30days. Find out how much you pay per day for cable.... aswell as internet and phone (if you have them with Comcast too).
Why does Comcast charge more for channels by raising rates?? Who does Comcast pay? The broadcasters and programming companys like Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS, NFL NETWORK*, etc.. What do you think happens when they charge Comcast a higher (per user/tv-watcher) rate(s)?
Just like what happened this past football season, NFL decided to get more greedy and charge cable providers an arm and a leg more than they were getting before if they wanted to continue providing their channel (*NFL NETWORK*) to a customer. So Comcast ended up putting it into a seperate package called "Sports & Ent. package" instead of raising the rates of everyone (even the people who don't watch the channel). |
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May 21st, @12:58PM
| My math is fine, you are the one who chooses to ignore reality along with the rest of the Comcast fanbois who desperately try to explain away Comcast's abysmal customer service ratings. You should bother to learn what Verizon's rates actually are and was programming they provide for those rates before mouthing off.
Of course it wouldn't dawn on you to wonder why people like the IRS more than Comcast. |
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BSD24
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| said by Skeedatl :My math is fine, you are the one who chooses to ignore reality along with the rest of the Comcast fanbois who desperately try to explain away Comcast's abysmal customer service ratings. You should bother to learn what Verizon's rates actually are and was programming they provide for those rates before mouthing off. Of course it wouldn't dawn on you to wonder why people like the IRS more than Comcast. skeedatl - don't get off subject, don't take this personal. |
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May 21st, @01:19PM
| RTFA, it's about Comcast' horrid customer service rating.
Meanwhile you keep repeating falsehoods about Verizon like Verizon charging for HD programming.
Verizon does not charge for HD programming. It's included in the HD box rental just like Comcast. In my service area, Comcast didn't discount the first HD box. They charge $5 on top of, not instead of, the regular box rental for a total of $12.95. Verizon charges $10. |
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| said by Skeedatl :RTFA, it's about Comcast' horrid customer service rating. Meanwhile you keep repeating falsehoods about Verizon like Verizon charging for HD programming. Verizon does not charge for HD programming. It's included in the HD box rental just like Comcast. In my service area, Comcast didn't discount the first HD box. They charge $5 on top of, not instead of, the regular box rental for a total of $12.95. Verizon charges $10. So you are saying Verizon Fios charged me falsely for everything, including the $20* a month for 1 box that was multi-room dvr without HD, another $10* a month if I want HD channels in my area. $6.99 a month for standard boxes each. I don't see how something from Verizon printed on paper by them would be false. Yea Verizon itself must be false, just as much as DVR meaning Digital Video Recorder, that must be false too. What else do you believe in your world is false? |
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Standard Programming | 
Optional Programming | 
Standard box pricing | 
DVR box pricing |
said by BSD24 :said by Skeedatl :RTFA, it's about Comcast' horrid customer service rating. Meanwhile you keep repeating falsehoods about Verizon like Verizon charging for HD programming. Verizon does not charge for HD programming. It's included in the HD box rental just like Comcast. In my service area, Comcast didn't discount the first HD box. They charge $5 on top of, not instead of, the regular box rental for a total of $12.95. Verizon charges $10. So you are saying Verizon Fios charged me falsely for everything, including the $30 a month for 1 box that was multi-room dvr without HD, another $20 a month if I want HD channels in my area. $8 a month for standard boxes each. I don't see how something from Verizon printed on paper by them would be false. Yea Verizon itself must be false, just as much as DVR meaning Digital Video Recorder, that must be false too. Correct, Verizon quotes me wildly different rates than what you are quoting.
Perhaps you were misreading your bill. Can you post a copy?
Here there is no additonal charge for HD programming. The SD multiroom DVR is about 1/2 what you quote and Verizon offers 3 standard boxes for $13. |
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Price aside, Comcast stinks.
Every time I call customer service, I get a different answer. They can't get my bill right. They continue to charge me for the DVR box when I've taken it back months ago.
Comcast got too big, too fast. Too many legacy systems cobbled together to make one lumbering colossal giant that is sooner or later doomed to failure....
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| You can see from their historical ratings, things started going to hell after they bought AT&T Broadband. That is certainly when my service went to crap. My video rates quickly went from AT&T's $72.00 to $105.00 in just a couple of years. My neighbors who didn't have CATV saw their HSI rates jump 33% in just a few months because of the lame "How dare you not have our crappy CATV" penalty that Comcast had. Raising video rates 33% is certainly enough to get people to give them bad ratings. Also for HSI subs who didn't have CATV, they didn't get the speed upgrades when everyone else did. So not only were they paying 33% more, they were getting less service. Lame. |
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said by Skeedatl :said by BSD24 :said by Skeedatl :RTFA, it's about Comcast' horrid customer service rating. Meanwhile you keep repeating falsehoods about Verizon like Verizon charging for HD programming. Verizon does not charge for HD programming. It's included in the HD box rental just like Comcast. In my service area, Comcast didn't discount the first HD box. They charge $5 on top of, not instead of, the regular box rental for a total of $12.95. Verizon charges $10. So you are saying Verizon Fios charged me falsely for everything, including the $30 a month for 1 box that was multi-room dvr without HD, another $20 a month if I want HD channels in my area. $8 a month for standard boxes each. I don't see how something from Verizon printed on paper by them would be false. Yea Verizon itself must be false, just as much as DVR meaning Digital Video Recorder, that must be false too. Correct, Verizon quotes me wildly different rates than what you are quoting. Perhaps you were misreading your bill. Can you post a copy? Here there is no additonal charge for HD programming. The SD multiroom DVR is about 1/2 what you quote and Verizon offers 3 standard boxes for $13. Actually that is exactly what I said. $20 for Multi room dvr... But there is a charge in order to have access to HD channels. I will post. |
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May 22nd, @11:45AM
| That's not what you said.
Read your post.
said by you :
including the $30 a month for 1 box that was multi-room dvr without HD
The standard multi-room SD DVR is $18, not $30, at least out here. The Hi-Def version of that DVR is $2 more at $20.
You then quoted $20 for HD programming which at least here, Verizon doesn't charge for. HD programming is included with any HD box rental. |
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I should mention that I haven't had Fios since November of 2007. It appears from what you posted that things have changed.. It finally looks like they got bundle packages instead of everything having to be A La Carte like when they first came out with Fios TV. |
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said by Skeedatl :That's not what you said. Read your post. said by you :
including the $30 a month for 1 box that was multi-room dvr without HD
The standard multi-room SD DVR is $18, not $30, at least out here. The Hi-Def version of that DVR is $2 more at $20. You then quoted $20 for HD programming which at least here, Verizon doesn't charge for. HD programming is included with any HD box rental. My error - I've corrected what I have on my bill.. $20/mnth for Multi-Room DVR and $10 extra a month for basic HD channels, more hd content in my area is even more than that. |
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| And in case you wonder why I would be soo upset at Verizon, is they promised me with all the equipment and everything I had for package it would only be $147.99/mnth, but my first bill was $420 for 2 months of service, which is higher than what they said. I had extra charges they didn't disclose to me for the equipment and having some extra channels charges. I was pissed, but it may be worth looking at in the future. I am pleased with Comcast currently though, no problems.
Its funny that you usually only hear the complainers, not the praisers of service providers including Verizon. |
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