Subj : Re: Cable rip offs
To   : Adept
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Jun 26 2023 06:43 am

-=> Adept wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Ad> How about, "But in order to cancel, you'd have to write the
 Ad> super-secret cancellation department, at least three years ahead of
 Ad> your cancellation date, so better to just keep the service."?

When signing contracts for IT services, if I got a whiff of "we're going
to make it difficult to cancel", I'd include my cancellation notice with
the signed contract.  :)

 Ad> Not really sure what to do about the bundles, though anything that
 Ad> reduces powers of companies to provide bad service is good in my book.
 Ad> It's nice when we get _good_ choices, at fair and honest rates.

This is all due to the "last mile" in the US (the infrastructure going
to residential houses) being a monopoly. Because it was expensive to
maintain, you had one cable provider and one telephone provider. it's
only now that the telcos bringing fiber in gives any competition to
cable.



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