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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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Grelb's Reminder:
Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above
average drivers.
(Score: 3, Informative) by PinkyGigglebrain on Saturday January 06 2018, @09:53PM
You might want to start sharpening that pitchfork now. By the time they start burning books it will be to late. Just look at Germany mid to late 1930s
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."