Posted on 07/02/2024 3:18:18 AM PDT by Libloather
American cable giant Spectrum is raising its TV, internet and phone plan prices in July.
Spectrum's internet base price will increase by $3 a month for all plans beginning in July, CNET reported.
The provider's home phone plans and TV Select service will also increase by $3 in some states.
It is the second time Spectrum - one of America's main cable providers along with Comcast Xfinity, DirecTV and Dish - has hiked it rates this year alone.
In January, Spectrum raised its low-income plan from $20 to $25 a month.
At the same time in January it also raised the price of renting a router from the company from $5 to $7 per month.
Existing customers wishing to negotiate the price rises may have trouble contacting the company's customer service - because call centers have recently been shut.
Spectrum closed three call centers over the last two months, laying off 745 employees in the process, the outlet reported.
It comes after a recent earnings report shows Spectrum lost 72,000 internet customers and 405,000 cable TV customers in the first three months of 2024.
'We continue to expand and improve our offerings to ensure all customers have products and packages that best meet their needs,' Spectrum said in a statement.
'While our services have been impacted by rising costs, we strive to keep prices as low as possible.'
The price rises come amidst a reckoning for internet and streaming consumers as more and more providers raise their prices.
Last week, Paramount announced that it would be hiking the price of its streaming service as it looks to boost falling profits.
The Paramount+ Essential option is set to rise by $2 to $7.99 for new customers - which works out as a huge 33 percent price rise.
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All the singing, dancing, jiggling and giggling has got to go. I’ve never seen that happen in real life.
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You just need some of the appropriate ‘meds’. Then you will see such things.
Same here. Spectrum (Time Warner) was the monopoly in our town until MetroNet showed up with fiber optic infrastructure. I switched as soon as they dropped lines. I pay half for a whole heck of a lot more now! Don’t miss the surprise billing increases for spotty service.
I tether my cell phone to my router for internet. It is way faster than the land line here. I do watch any TV shows but most anything I want is on YouTube or hdtoday and I hear there are free sites that play tv shows all day long.
Ah yes. The black parent with the ambiguously mixed race child with a head of big puffy curls
I despise that little blue pill commercial. I thought the little blue pill was for men but who knows what this one is.
Remember back in the day when game show host, Chuck Woolery, would say he’d be back after a commercial break in “2 and 2”. Commercials now days can last longer than the show.
dropping the cable tv
also has the benefit of stopping funding of cnnmsnbc
they rely on cable subscribers fees to stay in business
cnn’s revenue is one half subscriber fees
c’mon Elon.
Those ads are amusing.
I have not seen a real live black couple with kids in years.
I think the problem is Madison Ave. thinks the ignorant and obnoxious enjoy them. I lost it a number of years back when a dogfood store used Sympathy for the Devil as its background music. What?
Three years ago, Spectrum purchased our local cable company. We were nervous about Spectrum, so we signed up for Dish Network. We were happy with Dish, except for the occasional price hike.
Last weekend, we dumped Dish and signed up for YouTube TV. The price is much lower than Dish and the channel selection is bigger and better. I love it.
We also receive an annoying amount of junk mail from Spectrum. They even send representatives to our home to try to get us to sign with Spectrum.
I was hospitalized in April and the hospital had Spectrum. The programming was atrocious. When we are in town, we often see Spectrum repair vehicles on the road, which isn’t a good sign.
We have Amazon Prime ($12.99/month), and YouTube TV ($58/month). That gets us hundreds of stations, including live TV, and thousands of movies. Never getting cable or satellite again.
Too bad about all those customer service people losing their jobs. I wonder if the 3 I dealt with recently lost theirs. Spectrum gets pressure from the media companies to raise the prices as customers are not watching tv as they once did due to the “woke & DEI” nonsense shows they create. The media people refuse to create normal programs that people want to watch despite losing billions like Disney is doing so they demand the cable companies raise prices which they get a piece of.
Like the car companies raising the gas car prices to subsidize the electric cars.
Rant about cable internet pricing and speed.
I got a noticed that my Spectrum internet bill was to go from $54.99 to $89.99... !
The promotional pricing and gov’t discount was over.
I did a chat on May 31 and the lady cut my bill to $84.99 and lowered my speed from 570mbps to 371mbps and disconnected the chat when she disconnected my modem to reboot it....
The price should go down a lot and not way UP!
This is like cell phone companies charging for texting when voice is using more bandwidth. It cost them nothing. For cable the copper and fiber optics cable is in place and they have lots of bandwidth.
I did another chat and they could do nothing.
I called and I asked what is the lowest speed and they said the lowest speed is 100mbps and would cost a total of $59.99 a month.
So I went from 570mbps to 100mbps.....
This is plenty to stream shows on Roku as they will show sometimes the streaming speed which is just 4mbps <- 4
The internet is fast. I get 117mbps at the Speedtest.net site and the webpages now load much quicker then when I had the higher speed. I tried many sites and they instantly appear. I use Firefox. I know now to call them to reset my modem on their end as when I do it no change happens.
I bet they deliberately slow the loading of websites to “encourage” you to upgrade to a higher priced speed plan which you do not need. They did keep trying to up sell me.
I did mention retention but I was afraid they would call my bluff and disconnect me. I live in an apt and even though ATT fiber line runs past the place they cannot connect.
They have promotional pricing of 300 Mbps Internet.
$49.99 /mo for 12 mos with Auto Pay
BUT that is for new customers only and not the reliable steady customer.
They take advantage of those customers.
Cable owners must like being hated 😠🤬
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