'Tis The Season For Cable Rate HikesIs TelcoTV already having an impact? ( old news - 10:42AM Thursday Dec 28 2006) tags: Video · competition · business · TVIPThe end of the year is usually synonymous with higher cable bills, and this year is no exception: see Indiana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York and Florida for starters. Some analysts proclaim that rate hikes are slightly smaller this year, as public attention is focused on cable prices thanks to the FCC's recent push to bring telcoTV competition to the sector. While many of these reports share optimism over the impact of telcoTV on cable rates, it's going to take the better part of a decade for telcoTV competition to reach many areas, and less profitable markets may never see such services. And of course, if you happen to live in a Qwest territory like Arizona, such optimism is even more unfounded since Qwest has no real plans to offer broad IPTV.
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cableties
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 ·Verizon FIOS
| My quality of life is much better without cable TV. The expressions on folks faces when I tell them, "Um no, I didn't watch Lost. I don't have TV/Cable/Dish. I can't justify the outrageous cost. Besides, Lost is about lost souls. It's their purgatory!" Then they look at me like a deer in headlights, "You mean, they are dead?"
There is always a DB4 antenna and FREE digital tv for those with ATSC receivers...  | |
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Maxo
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Tallahassee, FL
clubs: | Re: My quality of life Gave cable the boot last month. I'm not missing it at all. | |
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kyramilan
join:2006-11-26
Pensacola, FL
| said by cableties  :is much better without cable TV. The expressions on folks faces when I tell them, "Um no, I didn't watch Lost. I don't have TV/Cable/Dish. I can't justify the outrageous cost. Besides, Lost is about lost souls. It's their purgatory!" Then they look at me like a deer in headlights, "You mean, they are dead?" There is always a DB4 antenna and FREE digital tv for those with ATSC receivers... I wish I had the old big dish and descrambler some friends still have and watch 4 million channels from anywhere all over the world for nothing. | |
| brianiscool
join:2000-08-16
Miami, FL | Joy to the world! Oh joY! oh JOY! | |
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brooklynman4
join:2004-09-07
Brooklyn, NY | Re: Joy to the world! Eventually teleco will be right behind em once they completed there entire networks so that the share holders can breath. | |
| viperlmw
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join:2005-01-25
 ·Qwest.net
| Qwest "...if you happen to live in a Qwest territory like Arizona -- such optimism is even more unfounded, since Qwest has no real plans to offer broad IPTV."
Qwest is basically playing a waiting game. I think that Dick Notebart is watching SBC (oops, AT&T) to see how they do with IPTV over copper. If they can make it work well, and get all the bugs out, you will see Qwest start deploying the same solution. It is the least expensive way to go, and leverages the existing copper for a few more years, as there is still gold in that copper. However, Qwest does want to get into video company wide, so if the death star can't make it work, I think you will see more fttp deployments. | |
| | fiberguy
My views are my own.
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| Re: Qwest Do you honestly think so?
I just want to highlight the theory of the great SBC management when it comes to what they THINK they have.
Here's an article from SFGATE quoting SBC/AT&T:
"AT&T is investing $1 billion in California alone to deliver the future of communications and entertainment services," said AT&T spokesman Ted Carr. "Our competitors are investing in a platform of the past." »sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f···CAST.TMP
They somehow believe that fiber to the neighborhood to copper is superior to fiber to the node over coax. Cable has been offering, essentially, the same technology as what telephone HOPES to enter the market with for years, and AT&T calls their service the "future" and cable the "past?" I have to laugh my ass off simply because while they are trying to, essentially, push service through the internet to the consumer, cable has a multitude of services running through that so-called "technology of the past"... AT&T is getting desperate.
Qwest will never, in my opinion, get to see the bugs in the SBC system other than service over twister pair isn't the way to go period from SBC.
I believe Qwest, again in my opinion, will eventually (years from now) invest in a fiber to the home or curb solution vs copper or simply fold and sell out.
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dadkins
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
 ·Comcast
| If.... ... your ESPNs, Disneys,Turners, et al keep raising the rates for _________ cableco to feed their channels, _________ cableco will have to raise the cost to the user.
IPTV will be no exception! SAT as well!
Get over it!
Sure, _______ IPTV is cheap now, wait for it... y'all will see.
Those rates will get a nice bump as well. 
*IF* you are lucky enough to get an SD or HD OTA signal, and don't mind not getting cable only channels, I envy you!
I live in a valley. No OTA for me! 
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Titus Pullo
I came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26
·Embarq
| Re: If.... said by dadkins :... your ESPNs, Disneys,Turners, et al keep raising the rates for _________ cableco to feed their channels, _________ cableco will have to raise the cost to the user. IPTV will be no exception! SAT as well! Get over it! I think that was his point: he '[got] over it' the best way possible.
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kyramilan
join:2006-11-26
Pensacola, FL
| said by dadkins :... your ESPNs, Disneys,Turners, et al keep raising the rates for _________ cableco to feed their channels, _________ cableco will have to raise the cost to the user. IPTV will be no exception! SAT as well! Get over it! Sure, _______ IPTV is cheap now, wait for it... y'all will see. Those rates will get a nice bump as well. *IF* you are lucky enough to get an SD or HD OTA signal, and don't mind not getting cable only channels, I envy you! I live in a valley. No OTA for me! IPTV will be cheap till it achieves customers then watch the price hikes.
DirecTV isn't cheap! Once you add the extra receivers, it isn't much better price-wise. Dish, hate to say, seems to have problems with stations wanting more cash to let them carry the channel. Remember the Lifetime fiasco? Ergen is the #1 reason why Dish would never sit on my roof. And, rain in Pensacola makes both tile and go out a lot. Friends have it and some have both cable and sat just because of the rain factor!
FIOS will not be $35 for 5/2 service forever either. Once they get half the market, I bet that becomes $45-50 easy.
Upload is $$$$ and FIOS will be no different that any other ISP on passing along the costs of it. FIOS TV will stay cheap then a price will come.
Cable channels charging ridiculous prices cause your cable bill to go up NOT the cable co. $2 for ESPN? Another $1.50 for ESPN2? Even the frickin' TV Guide channel gets $.25 a month!
It is time for A La Carte Pricing! | |
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Fatal Vector
join:2005-11-26 | Re: If....
Actually, it's time for them to sink or swim by what they get in advertising and a small universal monthly fee from the providers. An awfull lot of the channels are nothing but endless repeat crap anyway. | |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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Phoenix, AZ
| said by kyramilan :said by dadkins :... your ESPNs, Disneys,Turners, et al keep raising the rates for _________ cableco to feed their channels, _________ cableco will have to raise the cost to the user. IPTV will be no exception! SAT as well! Get over it! Sure, _______ IPTV is cheap now, wait for it... y'all will see. Those rates will get a nice bump as well. *IF* you are lucky enough to get an SD or HD OTA signal, and don't mind not getting cable only channels, I envy you! I live in a valley. No OTA for me! Dish, hate to say, seems to have problems with stations wanting more cash to let them carry the channel. Remember the Lifetime fiasco? People actually watch lifetime? most people wouldn't even know it had been dropped.
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kyramilan
join:2006-11-26
Pensacola, FL | Re: If.... Umm, you'd be surprised to know Lifetime makes almost as much $$$ as the WB. It easily beats Sci-Fi and similar stations. It is funny women are starting to make or break TV channels and nearly 90% of the advertising is geared towards them. | |
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Titus Pullo
I came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26
·Embarq
| Who has whom over a barrel? It's circular finger pointing as far as I'm concerned: Content producers blame cost of content, provider of content blames content producers, repeat. They both love it and both work & lobby to keep it that way.
Someone w/sense says 'ala carte' or more packages (e.g. non-sports) to ease costs and round we go again (Not McCain, he's full of BS and only pays lip service to issues).
You won't see cost savings packages, or ala carte, because of the mass downgrading it would promote. Same thing with lower tier HSI incentives for folks who don't want to add $45 (or a new $60) to their monthly bill.
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dr3yec
join:2002-12-19
00000 | Cable tv just sucks! I havnt paid for tv in 10 years. I will not start anytime soon. Another problem besides high prices. Is analog channels. They look horrible. So with horrible analog channels and horrible prices. The only good thing about cable is internet. Thats it! | |
| Lets Go
join:2005-03-05
Homer, NY
| Cable increase It is all supply and demand. The cable companies will charge as much as the customer will allow. They are not going to charge $100 a month if the customer is willing to pay $125. They will continue to raise prices until there is alot of push back. They will then keep prices steady for awhile and then try to raise again. Most people just accept the increase.
Welcome to capitalism.
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NEP1611
join:2002-03-27
Northford, CT | Re: Cable increase Bingo. | |
| majortom1029
join:2006-10-19
Lindenhurst, NY | Whaty about verizons rate hikes in january? What an article about cable companies raising rates but no mention of the verizon rate hikes that are coming in january? | |
| | fiberguy
My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20
| Re: Whaty about verizons rate hikes in january? said by majortom1029 :What an article about cable companies raising rates but no mention of the verizon rate hikes that are coming in january? It's not cable.. so it's not news in these parts.
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Slow Motion
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Timmonsville, SC |  POOOOR Time Warner,I feel so bad for them
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Rob A
Same Old Jets
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join:2005-01-17
Pompton Plains, NJ | God bless... DirecTV!  | |
| short09
join:2006-07-21 | why doesnt the fcc stop being so corrupt and do something about the price increases | |
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