TheMadSwede
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Holland, MI
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Re: Well
said by mattmhk  :
Is it fair to charge someone $15 a month more because they do not wish to watch TV?
I agree with you 100% (because I'm in the same situation), but fair and legal are 2 different things -- whether they should be or not (unfortunately). Since it is legal, the only thing that folks in our situation can hope for is that since the fairness of this practice looks questionable, it will be a bad PR move, which will drive change at Comast.
But speaking of PR, we have to remember that high speed internet, while becoming more and more popular, still doesn't exactly have a huge voice in American society. And when the voice is occasionally loud enough to be heard, it's generally only complaining and whining. I'm not saying the complaining and whining are not justified, just that broadband users can seem like a pretty tough bunch to please.
If you owned a cable co and had to make a choice to annoy your TV people or your HSI people, you'd choose the internet ones because there are fewer of them and even fewer within that group that have no TV, just internet.
I love BBR, but us users do often suffer from groupthink in regards to broadband and many of the issues around it. Just because we wear our broadband hearts on our broadband sleeves around here, doesn't mean that the "general public" does the same...or even knows or cares what's going on.
All in all, I guess we can only speak our minds, then wait and see how it pans out.
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Welp -- finally trying this cable thing out. |
