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Industry Insider Blasts Comcast
gordette writes "I'm posting this because Comcast did the same thing to me that this journalist describes — held my HD channels hostage by insisting that I shell out for an expensive cable package. The journalist is blasting Comcast for their 'shakedown' of consumers, and is doing so in full view of industry insiders. She also links to an earlier blog post describing Comcast's Motorola DVR problems."
Its just TV for gods sake, not life saving medical equipment. As the provider that can choose what terms they like. Yes maybe its unfair but you as a consumer have the option of taking your money and custom elsewhere.
So you are blaming Comcast for not redefining standard precations while your landlord takes a vacation? The reason they do things like that is because if they didn't have measures like that in place, after you moved out - the next tenant could reconnect the cable in your name to either a) avoid paying install fees, or b) letting them rack up a few months of bills on your behalf.
Of course, your landlord's tan obviously supercedes all of those precautions, and it makes perfect sense that you would disavow your loyalty and eagerly wait to change providers. Perhaps you should make sure FIOS doesn't require authentication with credit card payments and that they use Post-It notes to record your personal identification information.
Well, if you don't like the service, run your own miles of fiber cable, and equipment. Lease space on Telephone poles. buy your own converter. It shoudl only be a few thousand dollars, maybe a hundred thousand, tops.
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