Cable went up again for me!

[fedupwithcablevision590]

I have all 3 services with an optimum rewards discount(OV,iO, Oo), yet I am now paying $146! I dont even have a silver package, the only "extra" I have is DVR, which is kind of a must with all the commercials on shows these days. It's gone up nearly $10 in the past year, it's getting ridiculous. I'm definately thinking about going to satellite...again. Fios would be nice, but by the time they get here I'll be an old man.

[JZ1276]

I have all 3 services with an optimum rewards discount(OV,iO, Oo), yet I am now paying $146! I dont even have a silver package, the only "extra" I have is DVR, which is kind of a must with all the commercials on shows these days. It's gone up nearly $10 in the past year, it's getting ridiculous. I'm definately thinking about going to satellite...again. Fios would be nice, but by the time they get here I'll be an old man.

I think thats bc the triple play is only $99 for the first year, then you pay reg price

[stevenl]

Rates go up every year. Fios has gone up more then cable has in the past 2 years. There was an article on multichannelnews about it ill try to find it but it was something like the biggest cable increase for the last two years was some 5% and fios has gone up nearly 10? something like that. Dont quote on the numbers but I know it said Fios has had the largest increase of all the video carriers in the last 2 years.

Prices naturally have to rise. in the last 3 years I went from spending about 50$ every 2 days to fill up my work truck to nearly 90$ now. So that 40$ every 2 days has to come from somewhere!

[jpr281]

When the dollar is worth 43% of what it was in 2000, that's called inflation.

So a 5% or 10% increase isn't really all that much when you factor that in.

[harshness]

So a 5% or 10% increase isn't really all that much when you factor that in.

When inflation is increasing at a 3-3.5% rate, the cable increases seem high. Especially as more and more "triple play" subscribers are paying the full rate.

[RemyM]

Well my water company just got state aprroval to raise my rate by 33%. Do you want to talk about electric and natural gas prices too?

[cforrest]

LIPA approved a 2% increase! 33% water increase is nuts though, ouch. Good luck with that.

[stevenl]

Milk is now near 5$ a gallon here, when a little over a year ago I was getting it for "2 for 5" deals or 3.99 a gallon separately. Bread store brand was 89 cents (last year!) its 1.29 today per loaf.

[Harrelson 69]

With Direct tv ($75), AOL Dial Up ($25) and Verizon 2 phone lines(one for phone, one for dial up internet: over $100) total over $200. Cablevision 3 services toal $ 167. I'm still saving over $30!

[bidger`]

Harrelson 69, are you not close enough to Verizon's CO for DSL?