Death. Taxes. And cable TV rate increases. All sure bets, as Oregon cable TV customers will be reminded when they get their January bills. Comcast announced its annual price hike Monday, raising rates for its standard “Digital Starter” package by 5.1 percent. Subscribers will pay $ 63 a month — $ 3 more than they [...]
Frontier Communications Corp. plans an enormous price increase for its FiOS cable TV customers in Oregon and Washington , marginalizing the company as a competitor to Comcast. Rates will rise 46 percent or more for standard cable plans — the result, Frontier says, of rate hikes by the cable networks. The higher rates won’t immediately [...]
Unable to cross subsidize high programming costs, Frontier Communications last week decided to exit the TV business in an interesting fashion: they jacked up TV prices for FiOS TV customers acquired in their deal with Verizon by a whopping 50%, higher than local competitors. Instead of just shuttering the service, Frontier apparently hopes to milk [...]
Frontier Communications FiOS cable customers could be facing a monthly increase of $ 12 to $ 30 in coming weeks. Many of the affected subscribers have a $ 99 bundle for monthly TV, telephone and Internet services. As an alternative, Frontier will offer DirecTV satellite service free for the rest of the year for customers [...]
If you’re an existing Verizon FiOS TV customer that resides in Indiana , Oregon , or Washington State included in Frontier’s (NYSE: FTR) 14-state acquisition of the RBOC’s rural lines, you’re soon going to find a fatter bill in your mailbox. Claiming it lacks the clout to deal with the area’s content owners, Frontier says [...]