The First Honest Cable Company

[MonKENy]

I have to agree with the hidden fees BS. Signed up for DirecTV primarily due to Sunday Ticket (NFL). Seemed to suggest I'd be at under $50 a month for basic HD programming.

Now, 4 months later, I'm paying $81.92. I was under the impression that I'd be paying roughly $600 per year for all sorts of programming vs. just getting Sunday Ticket on the PS3 via the Internet for $299. Now that figure is much closer to 1000 per year. And half of the shit on there isn't worth watching.

I've told myself prior that it just wasn't worth $80+ a month, so I canceled and did the netflix/hulu/ota thing and was pretty happy. But when I saw that I could get it for roughly $50 a month with Sunday Ticket included, I happily signed up. Now, I'm less than thrilled with the extra shit they're adding onto my bill.

I'm sure calling will have no net effect, but what can you do.

Call them. I have found DirecTV to be AWESOME customer service side. They have always given us free stuff or upgrades. They will lick your balls to keep you as a customer.

I am still going to cancel it when my contract is up and go full streaming however. Save a butt ton of money. We already have free home phone. I did the math.

To buy amazon prime, hulu plus, netflix and blockbuster is way cheaper per month than Dirtectv

Whatever I cant get from those Ill stream direct from the internet. And alot of cable channels also stream from the site so primetime stuff is free streaming as well.

F big cable companies. I wish they would all diaf

 

[slayernine]

But you live in Canada so you're fucked.

I aggree, in Canada you can barely get 1-2MBbs up even if you are paying $60-100/month. You can get between 10-50MBps down but the upload here is complete crap and really overpriced.

For business internet my ISP wants $1150/month for 10MBps up and down. Just ridiculous...

After getting a bunch of competitive quotes I managed to get them down to $850/month and I'm still sitting here wondering why I should pay such a ridiculous amount for mediocre internet. That does come with unlimited bandwidth BTW.

 

[reallyscrued]

No way i'd pay for Google Fiber. To me 40/15 is more than enough. What are you downloading that needs a Gig a second?

That's awesome, because is forcing you to.

Extra internet speed isn't simply about pirating movies and software.

But just because you don't have the abilities or know-how to use extra bandwidth doesn't mean that everyone else is in the same boat, that kinda goes for any product or service that's willing to push the envelope. Isn't that what progress is all about?

I suppose we should just quit after 4 TB hard drive because...well...what're you gonna do with all that space, huh, Ben?

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