  Sr Tech Premium join:2003-01-19 New Fairfield, CT
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Here is an idea, everyone cancel your cable subscripstion's today. Never mind the rates going up, watch how fast they would drop. Really, why should I pay royalties to a channel that I would never watch, I think the cable companies have to redo thier contracts with the thier providors. I should only have to pay for what I want to watch not what the cable company wants me to watch,But really cancel your cable today. Get the whole country to cancell then watch.. |
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 kinneyr2
join:2002-01-24 Carlsbad, CA | One can only hope that DSL will come with broadband TV to compete with cable and satellite. Prices will fall when more competing players enter into the same market. Choice of provider and choice of channels will be the future. |
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  Ark
join:2002-06-08 Hudsonville, MI
·AT&T Midwest
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I'm cancelling mine in a few days. Comcast just raised my rate for the 3rd time, and I havn't even owned this house for a year yet. $40 to $43 to $53 to $57 now, for the same basic cable package. I'm getting Dish bundled through SBC for $26/month ($25 + $5 for the box - $4 bundle discount) and its the same amount of channels really. And at less then half of the price. Dish will be installed wednesday. I know 2 people who recently got Dish and they both live in a heavily forested area with 100ft+ trees all around them, and neither lost signal at all during the "thunder snow" storm we had a few days back. |
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 batmanst
join:2003-12-23 Beverly Hills, CA | wise decision but go for 3.0/512 not 1.5/384 it would suck! Upon reflection, I do not wish to post. Take me back! |
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  Ark
join:2002-06-08 Hudsonville, MI | I have 6.0/608 (5x static IPs) from SBC already, and its supposed to be 6.0/768 soon too. And basic phone service with no long distance or extra crap on it. That $57 to Comcast is just for basic TV, not any sort of Internet access or anything. |
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  pcscdma Chocobo Chocobo Random Battle Premium join:2004-01-14 Winterset, IA clubs:
| reply to Sr Tech said by Sr Tech :Here is an idea, everyone cancel your cable subscripstion's today. I could, but I've heard ISDN sucks. -- I triple dog dare you to click this. |
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 BosstonesOwn
join:2002-12-15 Everett, MA clubs:
·Comcast
| reply to Sr Tech said by Sr Tech :Here is an idea, everyone cancel your cable subscripstion's today. Never mind the rates going up, watch how fast they would drop. Really, why should I pay royalties to a channel that I would never watch, I think the cable companies have to redo thier contracts with the thier providors. I should only have to pay for what I want to watch not what the cable company wants me to watch,But really cancel your cable today. Get the whole country to cancell then watch.. I had my parents changed over to dishnetworks with me and I was paying the bill for them. After only 3 months they had me cancel dishnetworks to get them comcast back. All because of the weather channel not being local always.
People just love to feed the cable companies for absolutely nothing more then satellite offers. It annoyed the hell out of me but I told them I won't pay the cable and made a stand on it so hopefully when they see the first bill they will change thier mind.
At least I don't have to pay the 2 bills now. -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt......and then it's absolutely friggin' hysterical!" |
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