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Cable and satellite TV providers are ringing in the new year with an unwelcomed gift: higher cable bills.
Comcast, for instance, says customer bills will rise 2.2 percent, on average, in 2018. AT&T is raising DirecTV's prices by up to $8 a month in mid-January. Smaller providers are planning increases, too.
Over the past decade, prices for TV service have risen almost twice as fast as inflation, according to an analysis of government data. Data provider S&P Global Market Intelligence says customers' cable and satellite TV bills have soared 53 percent since 2007, to $100.98 in 2017.
Annual rate hikes are as guaranteed as death and taxes. But you can push back and trim your bill.
What are you gonna do instead, read?
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(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @01:58AM (4 children)
The deregulation of the internet is totally making life better for the customers. Yes sireeee.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @02:21AM (3 children)
They were doing the exact same thing last year and every other year before. The amount of regulation didn't change anything. You obviously know this but still decided to make a stupid argument anyways. Why?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @02:34AM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @04:53AM (1 child)
Nah didn't bother to check on trends, I obviously DIDN'T know that. Point kinda stands, deregulation changed nothing so why do it? Where are my efficient market forces brah?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @01:08PM
Waiting for the market to unfuck itself is like opening your mouth and waiting for rain when you're thirsty. It *CAN* happen, it's just highly improbable.