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:
quote: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.
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
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.