Same here! They screwed up my bill, charged me twice one month, cased sseveral overdraft fees, screwed up my credit, .. freak them. I got DirecTV now. Their DVR is far superior to Comcasts, and I hear they will support TiVo once again soon (the best DVR out there).
It sounds like DirecTv is doing the same thing as the cell phone companies, I see no problem with that.
I am a comcast customer. It is fair to say, that their service in my area has absolutely no service. Either I pay for their service at whatever rate they command, or I have no cable. I do not live in central Wyoming. I live in Central Connecticut. When I went to call, Time Warner and others, they politely informed me, that my cable provider in my area is comcast. What seems to have happened, is the cable giants have worked out a deal between each other throughout this state, and divided it up. Thus creating minature monopolies in the areas they gave to each other.