 dan991199
join:2007-10-01
St Catharines, ON | early? maybe cogeco was just early a couple months back? | |
| zed260
join:2007-09-30
Cleveland, TN | lets see helth care and cable seem to both go up by about double the official inflation rate
anyone think the official rate is understated for infaltion | |
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SLD
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join:2002-04-17
2 edits | Re: lets see My healthcare insurance just send me my bi-annual cost increase - 11% this time ($27 extra per month). Of course, they don't mention the *huge* paychecks they give to their top execs, only mention how costs are going up. | |
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join:2003-07-22
Des Plaines, IL | Re: lets see the health care system is a mess and who is paying all there people to no say no to a better system? | |
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Its a Secret
Whatever
Premium
join:2008-02-23
U B Funny
 ·Shaw
| 50% hikes? LOL! If Shaw raised my rates 50%, they wouldn't have a customer. I would cancel everything in a heartbeat. Unlike other people, I have a limit on what I conceive to be fair value, and if need be, I'll get free wi-fi from numerous places near me for my free email addresses.
Still, $2 is a 17% hike on my 'net bill. I can always cancel my TV, and probably will. To hell with the CRTC, Roger's, et al. Pay your own way like consumers do, but not at my expense.
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Its a Secret
Whatever
Premium
join:2008-02-23
U B Funny
·Shaw
| Re: 50% hikes? said by Its a Secret  :I can always cancel my TV, and probably will. I canceled cable TV tonight. Screw the CRTC. | |
| waiting4fios
join:2005-04-08
Howell, NJ
 ·Verizon FIOS
| cable rate hikes not as high as usual Today this site claims rate increases in USA will not be as high as they usually are thanks to telcoTV competition, and yet every other day of the week this site claims that telcoTV has done absolutely nothing to keep cable prices down. Granted it would be better if there were no price increase at all, but that is impossible as long as the content providers continue to increase their prices and as long as gas prices remain high. | |
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Its a Secret
Whatever
Premium
join:2008-02-23
U B Funny
·Shaw
1 edit | Re: cable rate hikes not as high as usual Sorry, but this has more to do with the economy, and the resulting churn rates with higher prices, than gas prices I'd think.
We all know that these companies need to make record profits quarter to quarter to placate the greedy shareholders and the exec's justifications for their salaries.
This is merely a red herring for consumers if the bill goes up "only" 15%. Welcome to the corporate suck & mind f**k.
BTW, I'm sure we'll see a positive spin on this very soon. Wait for it!
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"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better" - Anonymous | |
| bakorican
join:2004-02-28
germany
| Glad not to be living in North America (any longer) My Cable (TV Provider) Deutsche Telekom, actually just lowered my bill € 5.00 a month. I now pay €80.00 a month for 50 mb/10 mb (unthrottled and unmetered) internet, flat rate telephone (even to the USA flat) and 100+ channels of TV. (Oh and lest I forget I get my Iphone plan €5 cheaper for quadruple play) I say it time and again, long live competition and a Government that is willing to slap a business around when it needs slapping. The European Union also just passed regulations that require Telcom/Cable operators to share their VDSL/Fibre Optic lines, making for even more competition and probably even lower prices.
I moved to the USA 28 years ago from Germany and was greeted by a land that was far ahead in technology, openess, acceptance, and freedom. Last year I moved back to Germany and was greeted by a land that is far ahead of the USA in technology, openess, acceptance and freedom. What has happened to the Country I once liked so much to be willing to leave my country of birth for?????? | |
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Titus Pullo
I came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26
 ·Embarq
| Re: Glad not to be living in North America (any longer) said by KrK :Can't say I disagree with you. Everything here is now about Corporations and money. It's corrupted everything. Politics, religion, ethics, Government. It's really too bad. Yep. The irony is that the guy you may stand next to one day for help in some human line of despair may well be one of those who were wearing blinders and defending bad capitalism and the free market because they weren't paying attention to anything beyond what TV channel they watched and some internal ideology they couldn't shake.
Little good the irony does at that point. Maybe a chuckle. From us.
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DJMASACRE
join:2008-05-27
Nepean, ON |  FINALLY !
oh wait
nope, Internet is still at an all time low in North America.
* pukes in the corner of the room * | |
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Shaw Kicks Off Cable Rate Hike Season
