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Frontier Takes Advantage of Time Warner Cable Fee Outrage
Time Warner Cable's recent decision to hike customer prices, then impose a fee hike on modem rental for the third time in a year continues to result in the national press belatedly realizing the company benefits from too little competition. However, what little competition there is for Time Warner Cable is trying to take advantage of this outrage, Frontier Communications running ads in upstate New York lambasting Time Warner Cable and pretending that Frontier users won't see rate hikes:
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Frontier Communications is making the most out of the cable company rate increases with a new “Goodbye Time Warner” ad campaign. It is pitching $19.99 broadband price-locked for two years — an improvement over its earlier offers thanks to a major reduction in sneaky fine print. Customers can get up to 6Mbps service at the special offer price as long as they keep a Frontier landline active with a qualifying calling package.
Frontier is traditionally to healthy broadband competition as Lindsay Lohan is to good acting and healthy living, so really many customers are simply choosing the lesser of two evils. Frontier's price point may sound nice, but they're forcing you to bundle a landline you probably don't want in order to get it, a forced-bundling practice consumer advocates have been fighting to eliminate for a decade.
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Rob_
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Mary Esther, FL

Rob_

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Antenna anyone

How many people will just say enough and get an antenna? If CBS is that important (Football..) than that's a small investment. A good antenna isn't very much and will solve the problems with this nonsense. Unless you live in a valley

-Rob
eco
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join:2001-11-28
Wilmington, DE

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eco

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Re: Antenna anyone

This post is not about the Time Warner/CBS dispute. Did you even read the post?

mr sean
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join:2001-04-03
N. Absentia

mr sean

Frontier v Lohan

So, following your Lohan analogy, would this be Frontier's version of Canyons?

But I suppose any attempted comeback that provides competition can't be all bad...even without the nude scenes.
desarollo
join:2011-10-01
Monroe, MI

desarollo

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Plus a $10 Deactivation Fee

They have the audacity to charge you $10 to terminate service.
tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Brooklyn, NY

tmc8080

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dumb and dumber

you don't see Frontier investing in the last mile deployment of fiber for the improvement of broadband speeds either. basically this is collusion and duopoly by proxy when you have one company who charges a high price but can offer faster speeds than dsl and the other who won't upgrade the dsl to offer faster speeds at any price.

»www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· _gbzo4Q0


Listen to this video as you contemplate that move to Kansas City Mo/KS, or Austin Texas
Chawk12
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join:2011-12-26
Everett, WA

Chawk12

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Maybe if they'd offer something faster than 6 meg.

I'm one of the lucky few that live in an area that Verizon installed FIOS before selling to Frontier. Those in other areas are not so fortunate.

Eagles1221
join:2009-04-29
Vincentown, NJ

Eagles1221

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Re: Maybe if they'd offer something faster than 6 meg.

Hah even if they loop at 6 meg most RTs have 3-4 T1s feeding them....