| Wow With the basic service (premier without sports or movies, etc.) we get a $6 rate increase ($5 for service and $1 for the box) over the current rate of $42.99 and $4.99. That's a 12.5% rate increase or about 4-5x inflation. And I have the movie package and several outlets, so I'll be looking at a $10+ increase sometime next year.
My biggest beef is the "service repair visit charge" for $79.99. I've had a tech out twice already in the 7 months I've had the service. And my DVR and my guide don't work well. If I had to pay the $160 in fees for those two visits, I'd be paying like $22.86 more per month spread out. Yikes.
State regulators who gave VZ a pass with red lining and statewide franchising: can you hear me NOW?? |
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KenAF
join:2006-01-23
Arlington, VA
1 edit | said by Fiosfornow :
With the basic service (premier without sports or movies, etc.) we get a $6 rate increase ($5 for service and $1 for the box) over the current rate of $42.99 and $4.99. That's a 12.5% rate increase or about 4-5x inflation. And I have the movie package and several outlets, so I'll be looking at a $10+ increase sometime next year.
Did you read the post?
If you have FiOS now at $42.99, there are no price increases (aside from the previously announced DVR increase) until January, 2009.
The only people getting hit with the price increase in 2008 are (1) new customers who add FiOS TV service after January 18, 2008, and (2) older customers who were still paying the 2006 rates of $39.95/mo for TV and $11.95/mo for the combined Showtime/Starz/Encore movie package. Those customers will pay the 2007 rates ($42.95 and $12.95) in January.
If you sign up for a two-year commitment, your FiOS TV Premiere rate will remain $42.95 until January 2010. That's not bad for the 150 HD channels Verizon says it will have in the next year. |
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 MadMANNPremium
join:2005-08-19
kudos:2 | reply to Fiosfornow
said by Fiosfornow :
My biggest beef is the "service repair visit charge" for $79.99.
Man, I wish you would come over to the Comcast forum where people bitch about a $24 tech visit for someone to come and replace their own crap wiring. |
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79.99 for a technician to fix something at your home??? WOW! What if it's obviously a VZ problem, is there still a fee? Also, do you have to have boxes for each TV with VZ? Cable sounds a lot more appealing to me... The cable company I have doesn't charge me for trouble calls, plus I don't have a box on most of my TV's, just the one in the living room, so I'm not paying anything per month for those TV's. doesn't sound so great to me. |
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said by KenAF:Did you read the post? Are you some kind of shill for Verizon? Because you are claiming that rates won't go up until Jan 2009, and that is incorrect. In fact, no where in that letter does it state that prices will not increase until January 2009. It in fact says 2008, which is 2 months away. It appears that you may want to re-read the letter your self. I did read the post and it says that the only way your rates will not increase is if you are already in a double or triple play bundle with a contract, then your prices won't increase until your contract expires unless you have additional services, then those go up in price anyway. If you upgrade to a triple play then your prices increase to the 2007 rates (which means that they are still increasing).
Here is a copy for you: »/r0/download/1···ease.pdf |
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