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You don't encourage people to get/keep your service by simply raising the rates. | |
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| no internet speed bump this year? Pfft! the handwriting was on the wall already Verizon is jacking up bills with new and/or increasing below the rate line fees for both Digital Voice AND Cable-Tv portions of the triple play bills.
the good deal I got in 2010 got me as a 25/25, DV/VOIP, CATV triple play (under $100) subscriber but as prices go over $100 for triple play I'll say goodbye triple play and MAYBE hello DUAL PLAY. I'm curious how many consumers dropped major carriers altogether and went 3rd party VOIP service. Which one did you choose? What I KNOW is the price of everything is going up and my pay rate is flat!
I'll let you know when I switch back and why when the time comes! How much can YOU afford for triple play? $100 is MY limit! | |
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| | | Re: no internet speed bump this year? Pfft! There has been a speed bump.
In December Verizon made the 150/65 Mbps package bundle-able. This brought it down from being a ridiculous $200 a month standalone service to a $30 add-on to a bundle. | |
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| | | | Re: no internet speed bump this year? Pfft! And that is all well and good for those of you in NY/NJ but its a big FU to the rest of us who are stuck with it as a standalone service with no hint of it ever showing up in other areas. | |
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| | | | | Re: no internet speed bump this year? Pfft! said by flashcore:And that is all well and good for those of you in NY/NJ but its a big FU to the rest of us who are stuck with it as a standalone service with no hint of it ever showing up in other areas.
At least you live in a FIOS area that offers that 150/65 internet. The real "rest of us" live in an area where FIOS is still BPON and no plans to upgrade to GPON, and thus we can't even get 150/65 internet. | |
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 aaronwtPremium
join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA
·Verizon FiOS
| I'm glad I just renewed my bundle... I got Ultimate HD, 35/35 Internet, and digital voice for $119.99 plus a $300 VISA gift card coming.(at least I hope it still comes)
So I should be good with my prices for a couple of years.
Of course if it's like in the past, they can start adding more HD channels and create another tier. Making me change my bundle if there are some channels in it I really want.(which would probably be the case) | |
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| | | Re: I'm glad I just renewed my bundle... said by aaronwt:I got Ultimate HD, 35/35 Internet, and digital voice for $119.99 plus a $300 VISA gift card coming.(at least I hope it still comes)
So I should be good with my prices for a couple of years.
Of course if it's like in the past, they can start adding more HD channels and create another tier. Making me change my bundle if there are some channels in it I really want.(which would probably be the case)
Yep, that's been their history. | |
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|  dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | said by aaronwt:plus a $300 VISA gift card coming.(at least I hope it still comes) Good luck with that!
ask all those that never got their free tv set! | |
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guppy_fishPremium
join:2003-12-09
Lakeland, FL
kudos:1 | Take it from the NYC Market Hey Verizon, if you stop giving away the service in NYC, the rest of use won't have to have our bill jacked up to keep subsidizing their service | |
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| McBane
join:2008-08-22
Plano, TX | Re: Take it from the NYC Market I hear THAT! | |
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 NJxxxJonDSLR'er from the 56k days.Premium
join:2005-10-22
00000 | If... The price can only go up if....if....they stop messing up our BOX (non HD basic) and closing early when I need to fix an issue with a Q-CODE. lol. (used an online chat on sunday because our f**king box stopped working) | |
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| | When they say "compete vigorously", they're talking about marketing. | |
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| |  They have the nerve to raise rates without adding new HD?!
When you subtract the six worthless infomercial ".TV" networks (which not one other provider carries, and for good reason), as well as the dozen pointless "West" feeds of the premium channels Verizon carries on their east coast systems (and vice-versa), which is also something other providers don't do... we find that Verizon's FiOS TV HD channel lineup is utterly pathetic - behind Dish Network, AT&T, the majority of the cable companies, and barely more than DirecTV.
At least Time Warner Cable with their 4% rate hikes last year rolled out tons of HD channels throughout their markets. In NYC Time Warner carries over 60 more HD channels than Verizon. This "state of the art" fiber optics service isn't feeling so state of the art anymore with copper kicking its ass like this. It's become apparent that Verizon no longer cares about its FiOS customers. | |
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| Re: They have the nerve to raise rates without adding new HD?! said by 45612019:Verizon's HD channels have been stagnant for years now. They ran out of QAM space and have all but given up adding new HD channels. They are lacking important HD channels that every other provider carries like Cartoon Network or BBC America.
When you subtract the six worthless infomercial ".TV" networks (which not one other provider carries, and for good reason), as well as the dozen pointless "West" feeds of the premium channels Verizon carries on their east coast systems (and vice-versa), which is also something other providers don't do... we find that Verizon's FiOS TV HD channel lineup is utterly pathetic - behind Dish Network, AT&T, the majority of the cable companies, and barely more than DirecTV.
At least Time Warner Cable with their 4% rate hikes last year rolled out tons of HD channels throughout their markets. In NYC Time Warner carries over 60 more HD channels than Verizon. This "state of the art" fiber optics service isn't feeling so state of the art anymore with copper kicking its ass like this. It's become apparent that Verizon no longer cares about its FiOS customers.
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| NWOhio
join:2011-10-25
Toledo, OH | most of those infomercials and shopping networks PAY the operators to be carried- especially ShopNBC, and HSN/QVC | |
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| | | | Re: They have the nerve to raise rates without adding new HD?! Verizon is actually paying Byron Allen to carry his crap .TV channels. That's how ridiculous this is.
I have yet to encounter a single FiOS customer that doesn't despise them. | |
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| | Have to expect it. Given all the negotiations lately with channels over pricing, you know the content providers have been asking for more money. Only a matter of time before prices have to go up.
And it won't be just Verizon. I am sure all of the providers will go up in some way.
Try and lock that price in now. | |
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| | i been waiting for fiostv i've been waiting for fiostv for over 3 years and still dont see it coming.but i do have their fios internet phone cell service why the wait for their tv service? | |
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| | | Re: i been waiting for fiostv said by cybercrime:i've been waiting for fiostv for over 3 years and still dont see it coming.but i do have their fios internet phone cell service why the wait for their tv service?
Probably because they have not worked out an agreement with your local municipality for TV carriage (the local municipality gets a cut [fee] just like the incumbents have to pay) - it's the line item called FRANCHISE FEE on the cable company bill.
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