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Re: It's cause the stock is cheap Many may have issues with Charter but I don't. I have fewer outages in 5 yrs with Charter than with former ATT Broadband. I get my speeds that I subscribe to. |
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| I don't get the speeds I pay for here in Madison, WI.
More importantly for a cable TELEVISION company, the picture quality here is the worst of many places I've been in the last 10 years. The STBs are cheap, little, feature stripped, buggy motorolas.
The video on demand is woefully bad too. Well, of course this is compared to the other cable (TV/ISP) companies I've had in the last 10 years:
FiosTV/Fios ( Beaumont, CA)
Time Warner ( Garden Grove, CA & Columbus, OH)
Adelphia ( Yucaipa, CA)
Prime Cable/Cox ( Las Vegas, NV)
Charter ( Hammond, LA & St. Louis, Missouri)
DirecTV
Oh, I forgot to mention, several of the HD channels you're supposed to get when on that tier don't come in... Good thing there really isn't any real competition for them here or they'd go under. No wonder they're in last place. They're not doing anything to make themselves better. |
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 rawWar EaglePremium
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Madison, AL | Same thing in Auburn, AL. They're a monopoly, so they can get away with crappy service and terrible uptime at far too high of prices. Nothing like a captive audience...
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Well Charter is not really a "cable" company anymore in terms of TV, in a couple of months they will have more Phone/HSI customers than Cable TV customers. |
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I suggest you go to Auburn and attend a Economics class on business structure to see that Charter is not a Monopoly. Monopoly's are nearly impossible in the television and high speed market. You have DSL and satellite along with cable.
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said by Big Dawg 23:Many may have issues with Charter but I don't. I have fewer outages in 5 yrs with Charter than with former ATT Broadband. I get my speeds that I subscribe to. Exact same feeling here. Have never had any major issues with Charter in the 7 years I've been with them.
I do realize they are behind the times on speed and pricing though.
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First things first, War Damn Eagle! 
Secondly, I'll concede the point about DSL (no arguments there), but for TV, the satellite option is nonexistent for most of the student population. Most of us live in apartments, so we can't mount a satellite dish externally, and less than half (if I had to guess, I'd say probably ~25%) of the apartments have windows that have a good shot at the southwestern sky (Azimuth 207.9, elevation 48.6 for DirecTV). For me, at least, it's not happening.
While it may not be a true monopoly, it's certainly close enough to one in practice.
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