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The phone service is very unreliable. It stops working about six times a day. During the summer months, they blame the cable not working on the heat. When the Internet goes down, the phone is also dead. They start you out on a "teaser" rate, and every 6-12 months you have…
Cable & Satellite
The cable company keeps raising rates and changing what’s in your package of channels. And most consumers only have one choice for a cable provider. Make sure you have the latest developments.
Blog Posts
- Verizon Hikes Cable TV Rates While Touting Competition
For more than a year now, phone giant Verizon has been convincing state and local officials to let it sell cable television services in their communities using the argument that the new competition will improve service and drive down prices. So imagine our surprise when we learned that Verizon is planning to raise the rates on its FiOS television service in all those newly-competitive communities at the beginning of the year.
- More Details on “Rural Satellite TV Consumers To Lose Network Programming”
Earlier this week we told you about a federal court case that could rob hundreds of thousands of rural satellite television consumers of their access to the big broadcast networks such as NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox. We’ve done a bit more digging on this story and have some new details and additional perspective.
- Rural Satellite TV Consumers To Lose Network Programming
Hundreds of thousands of rural satellite television consumers are about to lose their access to the big broadcast networks such as NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox because of a federal court case.
Tell Facebook to strengthen privacy!
Busy people can still keep up with one another, thanks to tools like Facebook. But managing relationships and managing privacy have always gone hand in hand. Companies like Facebook must create easy to use privacy tools so consumers know how to control who sees what.
Creator Mark Zuckerberg hopes investors will pay $100 billion for Facebook. While the IPO spotlight is on the company, act now to improve privacy. Take action now!
