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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: 2, Funny) by maxwell demon on Saturday January 06 2018, @03:01PM (1 child)
Why should satellite TV providers send you a cable bill? Last I checked, there's no cable going to the satellites. :-)
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(Score: 2) by Pino P on Saturday January 06 2018, @11:08PM
Apart from the fact that "cable" is colloquialism for multichannel pay television in general, there's a cable going to both the transmitter dish at Dish's headend and the subscribers' receiver dishes.