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 IowaCowboyWant to go back to IowaPremium
join:2010-10-16
Springfield, MA
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| Comcast vs Time Warner I have Comcast and Grandma up in Maine has Time Warner. Comcast seems to just give in to rising content provider fees and turns around and raises rates. On the other hand, Time Warner gets into carriage disputes all the time and pulls channels until the programming providers meet their demands of reasonable carriage fees. Each time I go to Grandma's house, there is one or two channels that is blacked out because of a carriage dispute. Comcast never seems to have carriage disputes, instead they seem to give in to the content providers and just raise rates.
As for cost, Grandma's cable is cheaper than mine despite the fact we both have triple plays through our respective cable providers. We both get approximately the same channels and we both have digital phone. And Time Warner does not charge rent on modems like Comcast does. Time Warner charges $1.75 for a cable card, Comcast charges $7.45 additional outlet fee for a cable card along with the bogus "HD Technology Fee".
So based on my comparison (as I have dealt with both cable providers firsthand) of Time Warner vs Comcast: The customer friendly award goes to Time Warner for price and customer service. I also get a local call center (located in Portland, ME) when I call Time Warner vs Comcast and their outsourced and sometimes offshored call centers.
I have also dealt with Mediacom but that was over ten years ago before I moved away from Iowa.
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I wish I still lived in Iowa; Everything there from rent and groceries to Cable TV is much cheaper in Iowa (especially with an overbuilder in town). | |
| And outside of NFL Network, Time Warner has a more comprehensive channel lineup, IMO. And in most markets, more HD channels. | |
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