| reply to Nightfall
Re: Jeez Thank you for concurring. But I'm afraid that you have missed much of my point. Maybe you don't see it as a hike as it may not directly affect you. I suspect that the people who are affected see it differently. Here we have a change in price structure that results in people who do not have or likely not even want an additional service (e.g., cable TV)asked to pay more for a service that is already being provided, after experiencing a number of previous hikes under AT&T. This policy is essentially penalizing existing customers (& those who have no other broadband options)in favor of new customers who would likely have ordered both anyway. In terms of the problem of "lots of people who have cable internet but not cable TV", I can think of at least a dozen family & freinds who have cable TV, but only one who has cable internet (& also has the cable TV as well). Cable TV has been around & established for quite some time, so I am not quite clear on your reasoning here. Increasing prices may be an unfortunate fact of life (due to inflation, etc.), but if business wants to justify them (& decreasing regulations on their industry), they need to be fair, especially where they are the only show in town... |
