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To: Space Wrangler
Cable doesn't charge you a $5/month "box fee" for every TV you want to watch anything on, unlike the satellite companies.

Cable will allow you to split the signal as many times as you want for no additional charge [although if you want premium or digital channels, you need to rent a box--it's about the same $5/month that the satellite companies charge you even if you own one]. Everything else is watchable without a box.
51 posted on 06/11/2003 2:35:17 PM PDT by brianl703
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To: brianl703
Yes, you are correct. My satellite bill is still cheaper by $19 a month with three satellite boxes versus one digital cable box. It's more for less no matter how you cut it.
99 posted on 06/12/2003 5:37:33 AM PDT by Space Wrangler (Now I know what it's like washing windows when you know that there are pigeons on the roof...)
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To: brianl703
Cable doesn't charge you a $5/month "box fee" for every TV you want to watch anything on, unlike the satellite companies.

Bull.

If you want digital cable on more than one TV, you pay $5/month for each additional cable box in the house, period. Comcast is not gonna leave that fee on the table - and they don't.

I was willing to give Comcast one last chance when I moved from the apartment. I had already made the decision to switch to DSL because of the fee issue with internet service.

But then came the straw that broke the camel's back. I moved into a brand new subdivision where Comcast hadn't had the foresight to talk to the developer. (this in a market where their image previously as GCTV, then MediaOne, then AT&T, now Comcast, was dismal at best) But rather than providing the more advantageous customer service of telling me when they would serve that new subdivision (smack in the middle of their territory), they said that once I got ten of my new neighbors to call them and request service, then they would do a site survey to see if they could even offer service to the subdivision.

I told the young lady on the phone that I wasn't going to do their job for them, and insisted that my service with them be terminated.

It was obvious that Comcast does not want my service, and I don't have a problem with not doing business with someone who doesn't want to do business with me.

I got my DirecTV system installed last week. And unless Comcast gets on the ball, they're gonna lose a much larger share of the Atlanta marketplace at the rate they're going.

And they have no one else but themselves to blame.

110 posted on 06/12/2003 7:44:26 AM PDT by mhking
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