Joining Time Warner Cable, Dish, DirecTV and AT&T, Cox Communications is joining the TV/broadband industry rate hike season festivities with some hikes of their own for the new year. A notice sent to Cox subscribers this week states that because the company is "working every day to add value to your Cox services," customers will soon get to pay the company more money in the new year.
According to the notice, most Cox TV packages will be seeing hikes ranging from $1 to $7 per month. Broadband service as well as service bundles will also be seeing significant price increases.
According to the notice, the price hikes will begin January 7, 2016, though as with most hikes, contract customers won't get to enjoy the added "value" until after their current agreements expire. These hikes will vary depending on your location and the amount of local competition.
Amusingly, a few weeks ago Cox posted a website
that attacked cord cutting and went to great lengths to mock the high price of over the top Internet video services. But like most of the companies socking users with price hikes in the new year, Cox has yet to really get the message that many consumers will no longer tolerate sometimes bi-annual rate hikes when, on average, they're only watching
17 of the channels offered.
