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| | You will continue to see basic losses from all majors You will not see an increase in basic subs for the foreseeable future from any of the big majors. Housing start are down and will continue to be down and foreclosures haven't stopped their upward trend. There are just not enough possible connects to see any type of increase in basic subs. Food and gas vs entertainment. Guess who wins? | |
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join:2006-02-03
Schenectady, NY | Re: You will continue to see basic losses from all majors In many cases.... entertainment... people are idiots. | |
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| | | | Re: You will continue to see basic losses from all majors Or it could be that free antenna tv and netflix are actually cheaper then basic cable. | |
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| | | | | | Re: You will continue to see basic losses from all majors Actually, Full price DirecTV is cheaper than TWC's basic cable in some markets. | |
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| | |  dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | said by majortom1029:Or it could be that free antenna tv and netflix are actually cheaper then basic cable.
Cord cutters are where those subs went. telco tv is just as overpriced as cable.
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| | | said by AndyDufresne:You will not see an increase in basic subs for the foreseeable future from any of the big majors.
Another reason is due to more competition. In my hood TWC was the only option in the past. Now ATT Uverse is coming in, Surewest is in my hood just now (FTTH) - Clearwire is here and some may use LTE for home connection.
I left TWC for Clearwire but then TWC offered a great deal so I went back (and no throttling/caps so far). The deal is only good for a year but I'll be shopping with Surewest after deal is over or at least use them for leverage.
TWC is the one who will lose in the end and will continue to shrink. They had a default monopoly in many markets that no longer exists. | |
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| | I personally just switched from U-verse to TWC for Internet so I'm one of the crowd, see my review here
still using TWC for TV service -- I find it better picture quality than U-verse. | |
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 rit56
join:2000-12-01
New York, NY | AT&T Does anyone know if a bunch of the broadband additions are due to AT&T's decision to cap their service? AT&T defections? | |
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| etaadmin
join:2002-01-17
Dallas, TX
kudos:1 | Re: AT&T said by rit56:Does anyone know if a bunch of the broadband additions are due to AT&T's decision to cap their service? AT&T defections?
Same thought.
I think it is too early to say as uverse subs are still 'shell shocked' by the CAP announcement.
Next quarter will be a much better indication. I've seen quite a lot of people (some of them posting in this thread) switching back to TWC not only because of the CAP but because of faster internet speeds and better picture quality. | |
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join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA Reviews:
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| Basic Cable $$$ "Basic" cable costs somewhere around $60-70/month outside of promotional rates. Singles and families on the margins will forgo the expense in favor of actual necessities.
CableCo would retain more subscribers if they offered ala carte programming without the promotional gimmicks. | |
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| Re: Basic Cable $$$ I formerly had TWC, and just switched to DirecTV. TWC had just sent me a note that my price for basic TV (no HD) and Internet Lite was going to go up $30 at the begining of May. I was paying $100 for the above mentioned service. $130 (plus tax!!) for the most basic package sucks monkey balls. I switched to DirecTV, which after the first year of my contract expires I will be paying $64 for service which has a MUCH sharper picture than I had back when I had TWC digital HD service. Im paying less and getting WAY more.
Why stay? | |
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join:2008-01-30
Mcallen, TX Reviews:
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| Re: Basic Cable $$$ $130/Mo for basic cable? Are you sure you don't have the triple play with digital TV?
Reason I ask is because the TWC WI rates are a lot better than what we have here in Texas. »www.timewarnercable.com/Wisconsi···linkid=0
TWC have them listed at $94.85 for TV, internet and phone for TWO YEARS! Which is not bad. | |
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| | Upgrade I wonder if Time Warner will *ever* upgrade to D3. The fact that they're not willing to spend the puny amount of money required to do so is an indication of how utterly greedy they are. | |
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| | | Re: Upgrade We in Eastern NC have been waiting and waiting for that same D3 upgrade. Some day...... | |
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| | | You live in a Cave? D3 is in our area! I just got it installed in the greater Cleveland area the other day. 30/5 Road Runner. | |
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innoman-Premium
join:2002-05-07
Dallas, TX
kudos:1 | um... not necessarily Telco TV I actually ditched U-Verse for 30/5 road runner and dropped cable completely, I use the internet to acquire/watch the stuff I want to watch. Their boxes were awful anyway (TWC). | |
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| | D3 for everyone in 2050! Well the sad part is that instead of losing Broadband customer TWC is getting more and they don't even need to upgrade to Docsis 3. Soo guess what? they will sit on their butt even harder now, don't expected any rush from them to upgrade to D3.  | |
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| lazy competition... sooner or later (mostly later) TWC and Cablevision will have to recognize the overlap & preference for Verizon FIOS symmetric broadband and offer competitive prices & tiers. unfortunately the only way for consumers to let these lazy companies know is when you cancel your account, make sure you let them know you want SYMMETRIC, higher speed broadband for a cheaper price. for the OTHER 4 / 80 million broadband subscribers the speed DOES matter-- a majority of the rest probably would if they could switch but most of them live in Comcast, AT&T and CentryTel(the Rboc formely known as Qwest) | |
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