1 edit | Shine the light I think one of the lessons of franchise "reform" that was missed is that you can have as many competitors in the same space as you want, but if the supply of materials they're buying is the same, the price isn't going to be that different. In this case, the content companies hold all the cards, and deserve a lot of the blame for these rate hikes. The bad news is they negatively affect everybody; Sat/Cable/Telco TV has to pony up the cash or they don't get to carry. If you want to get to the bottom of rate hike insanity, start looking beyond the delivery people, be they satellite, cable, or telco.
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2 edits | For what the rates went up to [$67 month]for the Seniors, getting a dish may be cheaper.
Dish Network has a promo for $24.99 month for a year even, then regular rate applies [$39.99 month].. still cheaper than Charter.
The only way it would cost more, is if they had to have 5-6 recievers @ $5 each /month.
The other part is, where I live, even if they have a statewide franchise agreement, they still have to negotiate with the SE WI group that handles Milwaukee, etc.. as they negotiate seperately. [This is allowed by state law as well.. statewide franchise or not - this was setup as a barganing committee between substantially most, if not all of the cities in the region to make it easier to get a franchise. ] |
