Comcast - Cable Company Review

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Skokie, IL

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Stop Feeding The Pig!

not rich, I believe in honesty, quality conscious, a bargain hunter

Pros

no outages during bad weather

Cons

no Big Ten Network, unhelpful employees, no NFL Network, bad customer service, extremely expensive, horrible programming lineup

JAN

2008

We had Comcast for cable several years ago until we switched to DirectTV, because it had more and better channels and a lower price.

The Comcast cable internet had worked ok even after their contract installers started a fire in my house. BUt that's another story.

I've become much more aware of Comcast lately because of the well-publicized disputes (separate) between the Big Ten Network and Comcast and the NFL network and Comcast. The BTN and NFLN was to be included on Comcast's basic tier. Comcast wants to pout them on a sports tier.

In its most simplest terms, Comcast wants to pass the cost of the networks on to its customers and the two networks think there is enough money in the middle to justify Comcast adding it. Many small cable companies already have.

Obviously Comcast has lost customers over this and their stock price is tanking. Comcast has responded with commercials on large market radio stations, in Chicago it's ESPN 1000, spewing out and out lies about how the Big Ten wants to charge everybody for running it and labelling it as a Big Ten Tax. The customer and money loss must be staggering as the commercials have increased as football season went into basketball season. In these ads Comcast says that customers should not have to pay for channels they do not want, ignoring what they are already doing to their customers on their tiers.

They have run other ads as a change of pace, saying the BTN does not have that many games and most of the good games are on Comcast. Well, the Illini football team had LOTS of good games and many of those were on the BTN, particularly early in the season. Basketball? Well, the Illini are having a down year. Still, I enjoy watching them and the BTN has more Illini basketball games than Comcast EVER did.

So, my suggestion to you all is to STOP FEEDING THE PIG!

Direct TV is great, and so is the Big Ten network.

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awlafon wrote on Apr 17, 2008 at 9:39PM

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We have DirectTV as well. As a football/lacrosse widow, all of them have too much sports for me. I love to go to the games, just can't sit still for them on T.V. But now I am really curious about your fire story:0!