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Re: AT&T Raises U-Verse TV Rates said by texasguy37:said by DataRiker:How can people afford this?
Afford what? A $2 - $10/month increase in their U-verse bill ($24 - $120/year)? That should read 24 - 120 EXTRA per year. And yes the vast majority of us are on razer thin budgets.
Furthermore, if I had to choose between gas and television, television is going to lose every time. |
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1 edit | Good. Gas would be considered more of a necessity than TV. I don't know about you, but I am paying more than an extra $24 - $120 this year for gasoline than I did last year. The same could be said for my food budget.
I will see a $2/month increase in my U-verse bill. I can easily find ways to offset the extra $2/month in my budget.
If an extra $24 - $120/year will push the vast majority into bankruptcy because of a razor thin budget, something is wrong. If the continuing increase in gasoline prices alone hasn't pushed you into bankruptcy, I don't think the U-verse price increases will do that. |
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1 edit | Guess what many people have for a TV budget : 0 USD
So how is it any stretch that 120 USD more a year is too much for people with a low TV budget?
It amazes me how Americans rationalize, no wonder we are in a budget crisis. |
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1 edit | said by DataRiker:Guess what many people have for a TV budget : 0 USD
So how is it any stretch that 120 USD more a year is too much for people with a low TV budget?
It amazes me how Americans rationalize, no wonder we are in a budget crisis.
If your TV budget is $0 USD, you are not paying for service with a TV provider, thus an increase in a TV provider's rates will have no affect on you.
It amazes me how illogical the message is that you just posted!
By the way, the most that the increase could be for U-verse TV is $60/year. TV Packages are increasing by $2 - $5/month. For some customers with certain internet packages, there may be no rate increase or there could be a $5 rate increase depending on what rate they currently pay. Thus, if you have both U-verse TV and U-verse internet, the combined rate increase will be $2 - $10/month. |
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2 edits | Let me state my second line again, maybe you will get it this time:
So how is it any stretch that 120 USD more a year is too much for people with a low TV budget?
***Edited to remove insult*** |
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| Oh, I see. When one cannot defend their position with facts or logic, time for the insults and personal attacks. Good job.
By the way, I was not educated in the south. |
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| So your total misrepresentation of my statement was due to ignorance and not trolling?
I see, I'm very sorry. |
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| I'm a U-verse customer who is affected by these rate increases. I sense that you are not a U-verse customers. Now who is trolling on this forum? |
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2 edits | Please note this a website devoted entirely to broadband (IPTV included )
I would treat anything but a complaint on this issue as either an obvious troll, or even worse a corporate shill.
Red flags should go off when one hears the following:
----Its only X dollars...
----I don't mind paying extra...
----Well, prices have to go up...
----Company X,Y, and Z raised rates so its ok...
and so on |
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| Good to know! On AT&T U-verse forums I value, the opinions, information and concerns of current U-verse customers. Others users posting on those forums, go on my Ignore List.  |
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| I see, you only value people who have U-verse and seem to be happy to have rate increases every year.
Red Flag anyone? 
I rest my case, end of story, QED
Oh, by the way, this in not a U-verse forum. |
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| You lost this one texas. Anyone who is okay with what has become an annual 10% increase with most TV providers is shady. His point is that these blanket increases need to stop. I personally would love to see ala cart come to fruition so I can pay for only the channels I watch, which would probably number 10 to 20, not the several hundred I have on DirecTV. Then if a channel wanted to raise their rates, I could just drop that channel if I felt they had reached a price that I felt their programming wasn't worthy of. |
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| I have not lost anything since I am not in competition with anyone. I'm simply voicing my opinion about a price increase by my service provider. Since I actually have the U-verse service and I am impacted by the increase, I'm offering my personal viewpoint. I don't expect everyone to agree with my viewpoint just as I don't agree with others viewpoint. There actually is no right or wrong viewpoint to have. Some just seem to think that their viewpoint is more valid than others, and if you don't share their viewpoint, you are obviously some kind of troll or corporate shill. |
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| The vast majority of us can't simply make 60 dollars more appear every year out of thin air.
Do yourself a favor and hang out with some poor families for a while. You need a reality check. |
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