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?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @07:38AM (4 children)
> What are you gonna do instead, read?
Maine Governor Tells 16-Year-Old Worried About Net Neutrality Repeal To 'Pick Up A Book And Read' [techdirt.com]
Scribbled in the margins of the letter the teen sent, signed "governor", and sent back. (What, use another sheet of paper? Are you crazy, we need it all for more books!)
For bonus irony points, the teen's name is "Hope".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @02:01PM
Nice! A ringing endorsement of the changes by the FCC: hey, don't use the internet.
Probably same goal for healthcare: it sucks, don't buy any.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Saturday January 06 2018, @09:32PM (2 children)
So the governer told a citizen to boycott her ISP and the Leftists screeched; If the governer had told her to enjoy the internet anyway, the Leftists would have screeched louder. This is becoming tiresome.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @01:34AM (1 child)
Folks who were actual Leftists would have formed their own internet cooperative.
Socialism is the collective ownership of the means of production by the workers
Toss in "consumers" while we're at it: Those affected by a decision get a vote in the decision.
If you're actively seeking a way to free yourself from Capitalists, you're NOT Left of center.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @01:36AM
s/actively seeking/not actively seeking
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]