AT&T Raises Some U-Verse TV Prices Movie bundle, non-DVR set top and Paquete Espanol see bumps While phone company TV services were supposed to bring about price competition between carriers, that hasn't been the case, with both Verizon and AT&T engaging in non-price competition and raising rates right alongside cable competitors. On the heels of launching a new $5, three channel HD tier, AT&T is now informing some U-Verse customers they will be seeing a few additional price hikes. The price for an additional non-DVR receiver will be jumping from $5 to $7, while the price of AT&T's movie bundle will jump from $15 to $20 per month and Paquete Español will increase from $10 to $15.
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And as long as people whine and complain to Congress every time a cable company cuts off a channel(any channel) because they don't want to pay the exorbitant price to Hollywood, that is the way things will stay.
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| You can't claim that. My cable company has not raised rates for years and years. We even have roughly 8 Big Ten Networks and have not seen a raise in prices to bring them. We're also one of the fastest HSI areas in Ohio. at 20meg /1meg being the highest tier available. We also have some of the lowest rates in the country.
Your comment about content costs driving force is moot. Providers raise rates to raise them. Not because programing costs go up. | |
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| Re: Content drives the cost structure said by hottboiinnc:Your comment about content costs driving force is moot. Providers raise rates to raise them. Not because programing costs go up. I wouldn't go that far. They do raise them to cover programming costs--- but they also raise them whenever they feel like it for other reasons, because they don't have enough a) Competition to keep pricing lower or b) regulation to achieve the same.
They know Americans love their TV, and they know most people depend on Internet now. Result: They know people will pay, and if they want to increase margins, so be it.
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| AT&T is raising prices on already high priced services faster then cable..... seems like we have a race to see just how much the market will bear. It's great having little or no competition.
Seems like the states should consider yanking those statewide franchises since there's nothing in it for their citizens.
Meanwhile on "It's all the content" argument, I notice DirecTV and DISH prices haven't moved in awhile....
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| | | | | Re: Content drives the cost structure if Ohio pulled their state agreement ATT would be the first to pull out. Especially in Toledo. Buckeye would even go around and help the City and State go around and yank the VARDs out of the ground. | |
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1 edit | Re: Content drives the cost structure We don't have a choice. You have Buckeye as ATT is not expanding past what they have. They're only in areas they're in now due to Ohio made them.
And again as said before even by me. You can't claim people are dumping TWC for AT$T as soon as it comes available. That's not what happens. In fact it has been shown over and over again most people will keep their same provider due to they're afraid of change and they're flat out happy with them.
ATT is actually more for their services than TWC.
And you can NOT access any AT$T hotspot. Most of them are still Prem. Spots DSL users do not get access to. Most of them are at Starbucks and Mc.D's.
Why should they. They'll be a point in day when you'll go back to them. Why? ATT will kill off their TV network just the way they SBC took over Ameritech with Americast.
ATT won't be able to stay in the market for the long haul. Especially as more and more programming is staying private.
And your over 200 channels with AT$T! LMAO! They count their "private network customer only channels" you can't count them, but they do.
Also anyone that believes AT$T and what they have to say shouldn't have cable anyway and should be watched by the NSA. | |
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| Re: Content drives the cost structure Yes I did know the Weather Channel is in HD. Remember I have one of the best cable companies in the country. They maybe small and regional but they still hit BBR front page three times (even if the one was from calling the Feds). And the key word with your first sentence is "MOST everyone I know" thats NOT everyone in your town/city.
And why wouldn't they? If it doesn't make them any money what are they going to do? Kill it. The same as SBC did with Americast. They're in business to make money not to lose it.
Why should I have U-Verse when I AM happy with my cable company and I have better services and faster internet than you will ever have with U-Verse.
Also I Pay MUCH less than you for services and will always pay less than you. | |
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| Re: Content drives the cost structure Buckeye is in more cities now that they can just go to the State and expand. They now have parts of Wood County, more of Erie and Huron Counties and parts of Sandusky County now. You may have them before you know it.
But you also consider U-Verse to offer more in fact they're more after you factor in STBs and their "200 channels" comes out to be less due to the fact they factor in the Music Channels and "ATT Blue room channels"
But also claimed that everyone in Stow is dropping TWC which i said is hardly unlikely. | |
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Meanwhile on "It's all the content" argument, I notice DirecTV and DISH prices haven't moved in awhile....
By a while I hope you mean 10 months. Typically Dish Network and DirecTV raise their rates every February or March. Last year Dish Networks top package, 'America's Everything Pak' went up $5 with locals from $95 to $100/month. The package started out being $70/month back in 2001. Checkout the Web Archive and look at old archived pages from Dish and DirecTVs website and notice how packages have increased every year since about 1999 or 2000 over the years.
It was 10 years ago today, that I had Dish Network installed, the package we had, AT100, which is now AT200, was $28.99, with no locals, now with locals it's $49.99. Other then a bunch of shopping and public interest channels not much has been added to the line up in the past 10 years, NFL Network, Big Ten Network, Ovation and SITV and that's about it. My digital cable package without the movie channels is only a few bucks more then that and is more comparable to the next package up AT250.
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| Re: Content drives the cost structure Yeah, but they added a lot of channels to those over the years. Even given that, it's now $12 more expensive then it was 10 years ago. That averages out at around $1.25 a year increase.
AT&T has raised prices at least 3 times in the last year.
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| Re: Content drives the cost structure AT200, the package I used as an example, has seen very little channel additions over the past decade, the bulk of those channels added are shopping channels which pay to be carried, or public interest channels, which are non profit and are required by the FCC. I hate AT&T, well all telcos in general, but satellite is now just as bad as ever when it comes to pricing. Those 4 channels I mentioned are just about the only channels that have been added, I may be missing another channel or two, but there haven't been 'a lot channels added over the years'. America's Everything Pak has seen the most channel additions and has gone up $30 since 2000 or 2001. Looking everything over channels added to AEP since it was started in 2000 or 2001 are as follows: Actionmax, 5Starzmax, Starz Comedy, Big Ten Network, CNBC World, Chiller, Current, ESPN U, NFL Network, NHL Network, Ovation, SITV and Tennis Channel. Oh yeah and the west coast feed of Cartoon Network and Fox Reality Channel replaced Reality TV a few years ago. Are those channels worth a $30 price increase?
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| Re: Content drives the cost structure said by Steve Mehs:Actionmax, 5Starzmax, Starz Comedy, Big Ten Network, CNBC World, Chiller, Current, ESPN U, NFL Network, NHL Network, Ovation, SITV and Tennis Channel. Oh yeah and the west coast feed of Cartoon Network and Fox Reality Channel replaced Reality TV a few years ago. Are those channels worth a $30 price increase? Well, I don't know if they are worth the $30 increase, but they are sports and movie channels mostly, so I'm sure they cost every bit of that extra expense to Dish.
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1 edit | said by David:and another $2 for the extra receiver. That happened in like June of this year. Are you SURE you're on DirecTV - they have NEVER raised their extra receiver prices in ages; they have been & STILL are $5/box, regardless of which type it is. You may have very well got some sort of increase, but it sure was NOT on the receiver(s) themselves.
Now DISH OTOH, DID raise the monthly price of HD boxes to $7, which is why I think that's what you're REALLY on... | |
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| Re: Content drives the cost structure said by dishrich:said by David:and another $2 for the extra receiver. That happened in like June of this year. Are you SURE you're on DirecTV - they have NEVER raised their extra receiver prices in ages; they have been & STILL are $5/box, regardless of which type it is. You may have very well got some sort of increase, but it sure was NOT on the receiver(s) themselves. Now DISH OTOH, DID raise the monthly price of HD boxes to $7, which is why I think that's what you're REALLY on... Yep mine went up $2 for a small receiver piece that connects to the main Phillips receiver downstairs. So I pay I think $7.99/month for the extra TV upstairs. I am not sure on the price but I am sure it was a $2 increase. I get the next bill on the 18th. I will check it then.
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Whittier, AK | In a while? Last March is a while? That is when my DTV bill went up and I din't change a thing. They all raise prices, satellite just waits until cable does it so they don't get as much blowback. | |
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I went with HD-OTA and a TivoHD 7 months ago. $150 a month for TV service is flat out crazy. Netflix streaming and Amazon downloads are much cheaper. $2 a pop for 2 once-weekly TV shows that aren't OTA sure beats $150 for all those channels I never used. Having Netflix on the Tivo now makes it even better.
I'm less than 1000-feet from the VRAD that would service my home. I would switch from Comcast to uVerse for internet access if ATT's data caps were on par with Comcast (250GB). My daughter uses the Amazon video and Netflix constantly. I'm probably close to the 150GB/month ATT caps now.
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kudos:4 | Re: uverse rates said by Lyserjic:$2 a pop for 2 once-weekly TV shows that aren't OTA sure beats $150 for all those channels I never used. But your TV viewing habits aren't the average American. The average person in the US watches TV 28 hours/week. Have a household with the average 4 people and that is a lot of TV and a lot of different channels. So you have to look at that cost per person and NOT just per household.
»www.csun.edu/science/health/docs···tv_stats
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| | | | | Re: uverse rates said by ThrowDemsOut:said by Lyserjic:$2 a pop for 2 once-weekly TV shows that aren't OTA sure beats $150 for all those channels I never used. But your TV viewing habits aren't the average American. The average person in the US watches TV 28 hours/week. Have a household with the average 4 people and that is a lot of TV and a lot of different channels. So you have to look at that cost per person and NOT just per household. » www.csun.edu/science/health/docs···tv_stats And while your source may be reputable it still fails to show the average user doesn't watch all 280 channels 28 hours a week.
So logically the price model should be ala cart since 28 hours might be CNN/ESPN/FOX/HGTV.... or what ever the combination.
Viewers only need to pay for what they watch not a bunch of channels they may never watch.
If you did see this prices might go up but, it would benefit the subscriber and yes the content provider would get more revenue since users are not forced to pay for channels they don't watch.
You might do well thinking more logically not by your own viewing habits, that said if you yourself watch 280 channels all month every month. | |
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Mansfield, TX | Paying to watch commercials... I cancelled their services a few months ago. It seemed I was paying every month to watch what appeared to be an ever increasing amount of crappy commercials/infomercials, etc.
In today's economy, in most households, I'd assume that TV would be the first drop when it came to consolidating your expenses. The fact that during this time, all these "players" are increasing their rates are mind boggling!
There's just about absolutely NOTHING you can watch on TV, that you can't find to stream on the internet these days. Sure, the quality may not be "on par"... but for the price to quality ratio, I'll stick w/ streaming. | |
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| Re: Paying to watch commercials... I give you a big thumbs up for making me see the light and I thank you sir! After 2008 I won't be paying for any TV programming anymore as I will be canceling $Comcast$ CATV soon. I was thinking about switching to U-verse to save some dough but $at&t$ thinks just like comcast so there's no point now. TV is nothing but commercials and infomercials now anyways so it isn't worth it anymore. Greed ruins evrything again.
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| | | | | Re: Paying to watch commercials... Spend a weekend mounting an antenna and you still have tv, in HD no less. 
OTA really needs to get their marketing going. Their new found ability to multicast and provide clear digital picture and sound is nothing short of revolutionary. I've been one happy camper since I hooked my antenna back up. | |
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| Re: Paying to watch commercials... Multicasting sucks and needs to go, ASAP. All sub channels do is take away bandwidth from the main channel resulting in poorer picture quality on HD networks. Most of these digital subchannels have nothing worth watching to begin with. I was all excited to see NBC shutting down Weather Plus, but disappointed to see that they are starting up Universal Sports Network or something like that to replace it. Subchannels suck, I bet if you saw an instance where all 4 digital subchannels were in use hogging bandwidth you recant that 'clear digital picture and sound is nothing short of revolutionary' BS line you're trying to spew.
OTA is dead and needs to go. Well actually what needs to happen is make the networks national, leave this affiliate crap in the past and let all OTA stations go independent and see how long they last. What's the point of having 210 different ABCs, NBCs, CBSs and Foxs in the country? Just have two of each made only available to cable and satellite subscribers and be done with it.
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| Re: Paying to watch commercials... NBC has officially shut down Weather Plus as of 12/1. There are a few affiliates running dumbed down computerized loops of weather info still but they should be gone on 1/1/09.
»www.tvweek.com/news/2008/10/nbc_···plus.php
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Paying to watch commercials... here its still planned to stay. The NBC station here does what they want. | |
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My local PBS station is broadcasting its analog and three digital stations. All three digital stations are crystal clear. No apparent multicasting problems here.
Many more stations. No snow and interference. Higher resolution. Better color and contrast. Better sound. I'll stick with revolutionary, because it is nothing less. | |
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| Re: Paying to watch commercials... Every station is NOT HD, only the main feed is HD. If you're talking about our PBS affiliate, channel 17 is WNED-TV Analog, 17.1 is WNED-DT in HD, 17.2 is WNED-DT in SD and 17.3 is PBS Think Bright and that is SD. I would cringe to see what two HD channels sharing the same space would look like, hell I wouldn't even call that HD, they'd be bit starved so bad. I'd call it pure garbage.
1 ATSC channel is 19.4 Mbps, that is adequate space for one and only one HD channel with zero subchannels. But the stupid notion that more is better has plagued OTA broadcasters and they reduce the bit rate so they can fit more subchannels into that 19.4Mb space. The PBS affiliate in Rochester, WXXI is using all four subchannels, but they send a direct uncompressed feed to Time Warner, and while I have never seen it OTA, a lot of people say that PBS HD on Time Warner blows away PBS OTA in Rochester. I have seen WXXI in HD on cable using my TVs QAM tuner and there is no comparison, WXXI HD kills WNED HD six way to Sunday. Not that it matters to me as I'd rather watch paint dry then watch PBS, but still.
WNED-DT in HD used to broadcast in 1080i, it is now 720p, I can't imagine that it's broadcasting at much over 9 or 10Mbps. Nothing like bit starving you HD content by half thanks to stupid sub channels. I am so glad channel 4 doesn't do multicasting, CBS is by far my most watched network and it looks great.
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| Christmas brought a 42" 1080p HD TV into our home. Hooked up the OTA antennae and marveled at the quality of the picture and sound! I am a satellite customer and I've been pondering upgrading to HD dishes, but the cost is not very enticing.
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U-verse used to have free boxes not they are just as bad as cable. | |
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"This is not a introductory offer" in saying this they leave themselves open for a lawsuit
the people love at&T that are old and ignorant of technology advancements still use the lan line from aT&T are the most taken advantage of.
50 60 80 dollars just for phone service and 30.00 tax and fees Where does that money go?? | |
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kudos:1 | Re: rate hikes said by seant169:the people love at&T that are old and ignorant of technology advancements still use the lan line from aT&T are the most taken advantage of. 50 60 80 dollars just for phone service and 30.00 tax and fees Where does that money go?? So what happens to your VOIP when your Cell Tower, your CATV HFC power injector, and your VRAD go dead after 3 hours (if the batteries were replaced in the last decade and not stolen by junkies)? | |
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1 edit | $7 a freaking TV... Yeah I got 5 tvs in this house not happening, Companies went from subscriptions to charging you a high rate on every TV you want to watch on... What are they going to do next? Charge you for how much time you spent on each tv after that.. ahahahahah its just new ideas for them !! I will probably never go with u-verse.
I Miss the days where you ordered standard cable, and hooked the cable in the back of the tv and there was all you're channels.. stupid channel ads going to digital!!. | |
| | | | Re: $7 a freaking TV... said by Chaldo:Yeah I got 5 tvs in this house not happening, Companies went from subscriptions to charging you a high rate on every TV you want to watch on... What are they going to do next? Charge you for how much time you spent on each tv after that.. ahahahahah its just new ideas for them !! I will probably never go with u-verse. I Miss the days where you ordered standard cable, and hooked the cable in the back of the tv and there was all you're channels.. stupid channel ads going to digital!!. Over the air FREE HDTV is starting to look a lot more appealing isn't it? | |
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| Re: $7 a freaking TV... said by Chaldo:Yeah I got 5 tvs in this house not happening, Companies went from subscriptions to charging you a high rate on every TV you want to watch on... What are they going to do next? Charge you for how much time you spent on each tv after that.. ahahahahah its just new ideas for them !! I will probably never go with u-verse. I Miss the days where you ordered standard cable, and hooked the cable in the back of the tv and there was all you're channels.. stupid channel ads going to digital!!. What's the big deal, satellite has charged a $5 mirroring fee since day 1 for additional TVs. I don't miss the days of 35 channel of grainy analog cable. Hundreds of decent looking SD channels in digital, movie channels using Dolby 5.1 audio tracks, dozens and dozens of HD channels, analog cable and everything related to it can die. It's not needed in 2009 and it shouldn't be around.
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Over the air FREE HDTV is starting to look a lot more appealing isn't it?
Not everyone can get OTA TV. And not all of us that can get it, want it. I have an antenna on the house, both HDTVs have digital tuners, but I want no part of this OTA crap. Digital Cable with HD Service is where it's at. Can't get Damages, new South Park, Californication and a bunch of other stuff with bunny ears. | |
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| att rates I have Myself at&t land line, long distance, dsl, at&t branded dish network and at&t wireless(formerly cingular) Suppose when uverse comes around this area will look into it and what packages are offered
As for the landline rates--not bad at all, around 40-50 something a month, 12 something for long distance, and bill is usually around same price every month.
I'm sure we're gonna keep our land line ourselves--reliable when power goes out, during power outages etc, can voice over ip have that reliably, it's not just old folks keeping there land lines, it's also young people in terms for safety.
until voip can show the reliablty as land line, no chance of switching here myself
we had voice over ip when we had cable internet at old house--internet went down(Cable) like always, phone was out for 6 hours, what happened if we had to call 911? and power was out, so chouldn't charge cell phone either. So for us keeping all our at&t stuff very good idea | |
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kudos:1 | Re: The 40% increase on additional STBs bites. said by Joe12345678:how about letting use buy boxes and not being forced to rent / leasing them? Hell no, you must pay the credit monger | |
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1 edit | Add me to the OTA users I don't have U-Verse, but the story is the same with all providers. They keep going up on rates meanwhile commercials and infomercials seem to be all that is ever on. | |
| | | Comcast Raise their Price on STB and DVR all the time. When I first Sign up with Comcast. Their DVR it was $9.99 mouth now it cost $15.99 a mouth. In some markets its $18.99 w/tivo service its three dollars more.
At least with ATT UV. they still include a free DVR. And what I can read from UTalk and Uverseusers.com The $2 dollars for non-DVRs fee increase is for those subscribers who sign up after the ATT UV stop offering 2 free STB. By February I will know if would hit with either with $4 or $14 price hike or my ATT UV monthly rate will stay the same. | |
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Miami, FL | A liitle Factoid - "Paquete" slang for "SCAM" A little funny, but seemingly appropriate based on the article.
The use of "paquete" has two references.
"paquete" literally means "package"
Then again the slang use of "paquete" is to scam someone as in "que paquete", what a scam! or "te metieron un paquete", you were scammed!
Nowhere near as bad a they Chevy "Nova" = "No Va" which translated literally means "Doesn't go", who would buy a car that doesn't go?
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