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posted by mrpg on Saturday January 06 2018, @01:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the read-soylentnews dept.

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: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @04:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @04:52AM (#618635)

    "[...] Good enough to turn the 5 o'clock news on and see what I am supposed to be afraid of today." [...]

    In my neck of the woods, that would be fat, pudgy female reporters that 'no habla ingles' very well.

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