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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: 4, Insightful) by mendax on Saturday January 06 2018, @04:41AM (1 child)
Why, yes! What an interesting concept. There are several books on my bookshelf that need reading or even re-reading. I don't watch television. There's nothing on worth watching the last time I looked.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Saturday January 06 2018, @04:15PM
Black Mirror has been fun. It's like a modern version of Outer Limits or Twilight Zone.
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