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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @09:23PM
Not available quite yet but Fort Collins, Colorado is headed in that direction (like Wilson, NC and Chattanooga, TN).
A ballot measure in November passed there, approving a municipal fiber broadband network.
Days ago, the city council took the 2nd step and voted to go ahead.
After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with muni broadband [arstechnica.com]
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