Disgusting: This Is What The Comcast-Time Warner Deal Does To Cable TV

[kpete]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/14/comcast-time-warner-deal_n_4789373.html

[Timez Squarez]

1. No cable tv here. I use DirecTV

and use Centurylink for Internet.

No comcast in this house, ever.

[Armstead]

6. You mayy not have a choice...This will likely continue until its one big monopoly

[RebelOne]

8. I used to have satellite,

but I would lose reception every time there was rain or heavy cloudy skies, so I had to switch to cable.

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. Me too. Horrible reception from DirecTV and obscenely bad customer service.

Never again going with a dish.

[Rex]

2. Plutocracies work that way.

One day that chart will be just one color.

[democratisphere]

3. It appears the regulators have already given an unofficial wink and a nod on this merger

Consumer viewers will see higher rates and many current employees will lose their jobs. It is disgusting if this is allowed to happen.

[trublu992]

4. What the hell are susposed to about this

I cancel cable but then they jack up my internet bill! They're pushing for that revolution everyone is talking about

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. Yes, I was paying $49 for Internet plus $22 for local channels only, and then

when I dropped TV, they upped my Internet, first to $72 and then to $75.

I still feel good about not paying for cable, though.

[KamaAina]

5. The Comcast-Time Warner behemoth would be in a position to dictate terms to programmers

I doubt there are any cable channels that could survive with access to only 43% of households, a lot of them in smaller markets.

[Holly_Hobby]

9. We cut the cord, no cable tv here

It was topping $170/month, what a rip. We kept the wifi box at $40/month, bought over the air antennas, a Roku box for streaming, an Ooma box for phone and a Chromecast to cast anything to the tv. We're also Amazon prime members for movies. Nobody needs cable tv anymore.

[TheKentuckian]

10. Where do you get internet?

[Holly_Hobby]

11. From the wifi box from our old cable tv provider

We originally had cable tv, wifi and phone through our cable provider. Sent everything back except the wifi.

[TheKentuckian]

12. Then the exact same monopoly/market dominance issues apply.

You think that frugal content pipeline is going to hold in this anti - net neutrality, monopoly environment?

There is no cable cut, the very same one is in use to a temporary advantage in an evolving technological landscape. They can and will adjust because they can now handle that traffic any way they prefer, including blocking it all together or too slow for functionality or requiring you to purchase the content from them to stream it or charging more for Internet alone than bundled with TV.

[Holly_Hobby]

13. I agree.

When that happens, I'll cut the cord to the internet too. I'm 58 and lived without it for the first 40 years of my life, I'll go back to the old way of writing checks and buying stamps. I'm a dinosaur, my cell phone isn't smart, and I lived without a cell phone for most of my life too. It's younger people who will have a difficult time, and they're going to get screwed big time. There is nothing we can do about it except complain and reject their services.