 oliphantI Have 8 BoobiesPremium
join:2004-11-26
Corona, CA | Same with stupid cable... Shortly after Comcast bought ATTBi we ATTBi HSI (non-CATV) customers started getting a 30% "How dare you not have CATV?" penalty price increase.
It's completely lame, holding a service hostage forcing people to buy the lame unwanted services. Cable and telco fanboys here defend this saying it keeps overall costs down, but why then doesn't the bundling work the other direction? Why don't people pay more for telephone service if they don't have DSL or pay more for CATV if they don't bundle HSI?
Duh, those other services are easy to sell. They don't have to force DSL or HSI on people in order to get subs.
It's a clear violation of antitrust law...using their market position to manipulate competition in another sector of their businesses.
POTS should strictly be sold on it's own merits as should CATV. If these business want to cry foul and that bundling is a "sale", then let bundling work in both directions...and in my case show me the "discount" for those who have both HSI and CATV rather than just the 30% price increase for those with only HSI.
It's all crap and no thanks to that dumbass Powell it will stay that way.
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