Time Warner Cable Costs going UP !!!

dpg · 12-09-2009, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by tummyman

Just got my bill from Time Warner in Moultonborough... along with notice of new rates effective 1/1/2010. I am just plain MAD. Costs going up 14.3% for LOUSY service on my package of TV and Internet only. They recently cut off all Boston channels for news and have a poor mix of other channels. In this economy, it is pure outright business rape of all residents with a percent increase like this. And the Moultonborough Board of Selectmen have no control. It is time for Moultonborough to send a message to Time Warner that there will be outright competition as soon as the current disgraceful contract expires. To show you what competition does, in MA I get all three services..phone/TV/Cable for less than $100/month....with NH Time Warner it is $147. Figures out to be 50% more........ Time for NHEC to strongly consider getting into the business of Cable/Internet....it is something that publicly owned electric utilities provide elsewhere in the US and they own the poles.

Where do you get all three in Mass for that cost? I also have all three in Ma and pay more than that. Are you on some kind of "promotion" That sounds way-cheap. I have Comcast. If your paying that because of some kind of "switch over" promotion I am not willing to do that.

TomC · 12-09-2009, 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by dpg

Where do you get all three in Mass for that cost? I also have all three in Ma and pay more than that. Are you on some kind of "promotion" That sounds way-cheap. I have Comcast. If your paying that because of some kind of "switch over" promotion I am not willing to do that.

for $99 for two years - and they sent me a $150 debit card 90 days after signing up. i did have to switch. i had comcast before. Comcast left their interface box in the house, so if verizon tries to gouge me in 2 years, then one phone call activates the comcast equipment.

I don't use the ISP emails except when i want to avoid spam, so i don't really care about switching back and forth. Comcast had my bill approaching $150/month before I fired them. I did offer them the opportunity to match the FiOS deal and they refused... a week later they were offering me essentially the same $99/mo deal for "new customers". Stupid.

In Moult. I have TW as well - so not looking forward to that increase...

Lakesrider · 12-09-2009, 04:01 PM

We have DirecTV and TW internet. Fairpoint phone. We do that because my wife gets the phone and internet paid by her company due to her working from home a lot. I'd get either Dish or DirecTV over cable any day. But even on DirecTV we don't get Boston Channels.
We get Portland channels in HD. WMUR has every excuse you can think of to not go HD. Pretty bad when Portland can have 2 HD Channels and all of NH can't muster one!

12-09-2009, 04:01 PM	#3
Lakesrider Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2,129 Thanks: 380 Thanked 1,016 Times in 345 Posts	We have DirecTV and TW internet. Fairpoint phone. We do that because my wife gets the phone and internet paid by her company due to her working from home a lot. I'd get either Dish or DirecTV over cable any day. But even on DirecTV we don't get Boston Channels. We get Portland channels in HD. WMUR has every excuse you can think of to not go HD. Pretty bad when Portland can have 2 HD Channels and all of NH can't muster one!