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New York State Threatens To Revoke Charter's Cable Franchise For Bullshitting

posted by Fnord666 on Friday July 27 2018, @06:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the revoke-every-politician-in-office dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd

New York State and the nation's second biggest cable provider (Charter Spectrum) aren't getting along particularly well. Early last year, Charter Spectrum was sued by New York State for selling broadband speeds the company knew it couldn't deliver. According to the original complaint (pdf), Charter routinely misled consumers, refused to seriously upgrade its networks, and manipulated a system the FCC used to determine whether the company was delivering advertised broadband speeds to the company's subscribers (it wasn't). Charter has tried to use the FCC's net neutrality repeal to claim that states can't hold it accountable for terrible service, but that hasn't been going particularly well.

Source: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180723/08030840291/new-york-state-threatens-to-revoke-charters-cable-franchise-bullshitting.shtml

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @06:57AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @06:57AM (#713580)

    Hoo hah, that will show em! I truly hope we implement some laws against false advertising and bullshit.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @02:34PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @02:34PM (#713686)

    I live at the other end of NY State where we have Spectrum who just bought Time-Warner Cable. Going back another step, Time-Warner bought Adelphia Cable which went down in flames when the Rigas father and son were put in jail.

    I hope that once the NY Attorney General gets done working over Charter, they move on and give us some help with Spectrum. Seems to me Spectrum doing some of the same deceptive things.