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Originally Posted by Conan46
Sorry to hear that. Spectrum knows it has you. Spectrum is also one of our local providers. Time Warmer Cable owned our town, then sold out to Spectrum, but just before that happened a local telco came around and installed fiber optic Internet so we had a second choice. More than that, the telco has more reliable service than Spectrum. Every week I get mailings from Spectrum begging me to sign up. The last two weeks Spectrum has sent sales reps to my door to get me back. I would probably break some forum rule if I said what I really think of Spectrum. Suffice to say they will get me as a customer when someplace very hot freezes over.
My mom has a similar situation to you, only with Comcast. No other option for a provider. They are also a horrible company.
We pay $44.95 a month for fiber-optic Internet (a price that has not risen in 3 years). No modem needed, no rental. No extras costs or charges. We get reliable 25 down and 5 up. We have Philo TV for $16 a month without a sports or live news tax. We get locals OTA with an antenna. We have basic Hulu at a discount for the past few years of $5.99 a month. So we are very happy and Spectrum has no chance of getting our money.
Again, sorry to hear you don't have options. You are not alone, most people are in similar straights.
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Yes, Spectrum sucks. I guess we can say that... I can get a satellite service for TV, but they suck worse than cable. But even with satellite service I would still have to pay Spectrum for internet, or use cellular which would be super slow and unreliable. AT&T's U-Verse was pretty good, but they are not available in my town and AT&T no longer offer U-Verse choosing to push DirecTV instead. When I lived in Austin, TimeWarner Cable had exclusive rights, and they sucked even worse than Spectrum, which later bought them out.
At any rate I'm appalled at the current trend in streaming where services like Hulu and Netflix provide a small amount of usable programming. Now we have CBS wanting us to pay for some of their programming. Even PBS wants to charge. BIG cable channels like Discovery also want to charge. I think in the future it might cost more to get decent TV service than it does for your mortgage.