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: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @12:21PM (1 child)
That is why they are starting to sell tv's with no tuner. Locks you into some provider. Also, there are plans to enable charging for over the air channels. Thank you republicrats your pro wrestling like acting is distracting the country while its citizens are robbed to poverty levels.
https://www.consumerreports.org/lcd-led-oled-tvs/new-vizio-smartcast-tvs-arent-really-tvs/ [consumerreports.org]
https://freetvblog.com/2017/03/13/atsc-3-0-is-coming-and-maybe-its-not-all-good/ [freetvblog.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Sunday January 07 2018, @12:23AM
So... monitors then.