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Originally Posted by Napoleon54
Yes it was a serious question, I wasn't at all familiar with Comcast. Based on what you've said I'm PO'd about them already. I've no interest in TV or landline phone service, but they're the only broadband internet provider (aside from satellite) at my new location. I might consider getting satellite instead, which would be like an extra $10 per month, but I really really don't want to do business with Comcast if what you've said about them is true. I don't tolerate crap like that and I will pay extra to avoid them on principle.
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Because of your situation... I wouldn't advise you to switch.
However, if given a choice, I'd run to a better option as soon as it was available to me.
More or less, many of the local cable companies act like this... mainly because they mostly own their own lines and they feel like the significant investments they made 10+ years ago should still entitle them to the premiums they charge today (kinda like a "toll bridge that continues to charge tolls and generate revenue long after the bridge has been paid for."
Pretty much, cable is a cash cow now even if they still complain that they have to pay high licensing fees for additional programming today (of which I say... hey, for the basic cable there really shouldn't be as many fees and most of what they offer in the base package isn't what we as consumers want anyways... I know that out of 70 offered channels, I'm really only interested in about 20 of them).
But yet, the cable company is in for a RUDE awakening. With fiber networks coming online now in mainstream America... it won't be long before they really aren't the "only game in town". And from what I've heard, fiber is much more scaleable than cable... so pretty much in the future we hope that more services will be offered at a better cost due to scaling. Either way, cable better start changing it's tune or else one day the music will stop (that is ... unless the folks who are "lemmings" refuse to acknowledge this and hang on to cable just because it's what they've "always had and are comfortable with"). Kinda like those AOL folks I mentioned before.
