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ATT U-verse about to bite the dust

TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,559 ✭✭✭
edited March 2015 in General Discussion
Just keep raising my bill and the service is going down and I ask to speak with a Supervisor and they said he couldn't help me lower my bill. I would like some opinions on other carriers and are they going to a monopoly soon. Internet, TV and Phone prices are going thru the roof and service sucks in my opinion[xx(][V]
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  • carbine100carbine100 Member Posts: 3,071 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mine is going soon too. Researching options now. I'm wondering what all will be offered in new Apple Internet TV packages. Charter Cable can save me some money with better TV package and MUCH faster Internet as my best option now.
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  • Jeepgod2002Jeepgod2002 Member Posts: 824 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am a cable customer and like most others, overpay for the service I receive. The trend in television services is that many are ditching the dish and cable for streaming services like Roku, Netflix, and Amazon Prime. I will probably make this change when my contract is up with cable. These dish and cable companies need to recognize their competition before they end up like Blockbuster video.
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  • Aspen79seAspen79se Member Posts: 4,707
    edited November -1
    Mine has increased $20 per month in the last year. Most telecommunications companies stay out of each other's area, thus creating a defacto monopoly. I've no option besides Uverse for internet. I had really good luck with CenturLink prior to AT&T. Knowing where you live in KS, you don't have a lot of choices. Twin Valley, maybe?
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  • beneteaubeneteau Member Posts: 8,552 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Get you an outside antenna for local channels and a Roku for your HDTV. Roku streams from the internet (Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime + over 1,500 other channels). Streaming from the net is giving cable & satellite hell. More and more are switching to streaming. I dropped Direct TV several months ago and pickup over 35 channels with the OTA antenna and Roku connected to 2 TV's. My monthly bill is $9.00 for Netflix.
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  • kidthatsirishkidthatsirish Member Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah...I'm calling u verse Monday to try and get a lower rate...or I'll just drop the TV part of the package. ...they keep raising the bill with no increase in service.
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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    Cox Cable here in the Phoenix area. When my contract runs out end of this year, I'll see about dropping the TV and phone services. Put up an HD antenna for local channels and just keep the high speed internet. Then pick and choose as I like of online TV.

    Paying for 50Meg download, 5meg upload. Sometimes it goes close to 70Meg:
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    Google Fiber has been talking about building here, bring in 1000Meg speeds for less than Cox Cable. That's pushed Cox to upgrade people for free, I was at 25Meg for the same price.

    But if Google Fiber finally commits to building here, Cox can kiss a lot of pissed off overcharged customers goodbye!
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  • armilitearmilite Member Posts: 35,490 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have Direct TV and I'm currently happy with it but sooner or later they all bite you in the *.
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  • nmyersnmyers Member Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There's really no way to beat the system if you want comprehensive services. I have competition in my area (Comcast & Verizon), but the only competition is that both try to gouge customers the most. We even have a "cable administrator" who works for the county to insure competition & fairness, but he seems to be only a paid apologist for the cable companies. I mean, if Comcast can afford to buy a complete network (NBC), as well as a huge cable company (Time Warner), wouldn't you think that they had to get the cash by overcharging cable customers?

    ALL the streaming services use the internet to send you programs for your Hulu & Apple TV, & the heavy traffic slows transmission for everyone. So, the ISP's slow access for customers who pay the least. And, as with your cell phone, eventually we will have to pay for "data".

    The streaming services offer mainly old TV shows & movies. If you want the local stations & network TV, your ISP is the only source if you don't get them with an outside antenna. HBO, Showtime, Starz, Cinemax, etc were only available with cable or satellite, but may be available (with data limitations) from a streaming service.

    Phone service has become expensive, but many folks are using VOIP (really, your ISP's cable/fiber optic network), or they just drop the phone line & use cell phones.

    Every year, technology gives us new choices, so everything we use today may well be replaced by something else. It may get better & faster, but it won't get cheaper.

    Neal

    "Expensive fun isn't always fun, but it's always expensive." -- Neal
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  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ditched cable TV and have not missed it at all.

    We have Netflix and Hulu Plus and get free tv from the internet and plenty of local channels with roof top antenna.

    Shame is the locals signal is crap I tried several if the indoor antennas and even with amps they sucked.

    If Uncle Sammy's FCC is going to regulate the air waves they should have required the digital signals to be strong enough that they were not near impossible to receive.
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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  • TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I might ad I have Google Fiber in my front yard and the old Sure West in my back yard and U-verse for my service and it all comes in on the same line so charging for all three services seems to be a big rip-off
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  • chiefrchiefr Member Posts: 14,115 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by armilite
    I have Direct TV and I'm currently happy with it but sooner or later they all bite you in the *.



    As far as savings DTV and Dish used to be a great alternative to cable such as Time Warner and Comcast.

    Now DTV and Dish rates are ridiculously high. My DTV has increased $30 in 2 years. I too am now considering alternatives.

    Sadly I don't mind paying the money, but TV is nothing like it used to be:
    Looking at TV in general from what we had in the 60s to what we have today, commercial time has nearly equaled programming time. Commercials used to run 1 minute max, now they run 4 minutes. I am real close to internet only.
    Take a televised football game, A football game should last for one hour. A football game on TV runs for 3 to 3.5 hours. Thus 2 hours or more of a football game is now commercials. In the past, reporters were on the sidelines interviewing or we saw replays or commentaries during breaks.
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