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[Jeff P]

That 200 plus dollars a month Spectrum bill in the article caught my eye.

Several years ago Spectrum bought out Time Warner.

At the time, Time Warner was charging me about $80.00 a month for both high speed internet and a cable tv package that included both HBO and Showtime.

It didn't take long before Spectrum began hiking the monthly bill.

$80.00 eventually became $120-ish. About two years ago when it reached $160-ish I told them to shove it, and the only thing I wanted from them was high speed internet.

After that, Spectrum began hiking the monthly internet only bill.

It took a while, but the $49.00 a month they were charging for internet only somehow ballooned to $100-ish.

At which point I told them to shove it a second time, and that I would create a local wifi hot spot using signal from my cell phone carrier.

Rather than have me cancel, they offered to lower my internet only bill to $49.00 a month for a period of 12 months.

I'm about 2 months in now, and have discovered that a local wifi hot spot using signal from my cell phone carrier is good enough that I can watch and bet races through an adw from pretty much any populated area.

$7 Billion (that's Billion with a "B") seems like an excessive amount.

But after dealing with what passes for Spectrum's idea of customer service and jumping through the seemingly endless series of hoops they made me jump through in order to cancel my service and get them to stop billing for services they agreed to cancel:

I don't have much in the way of sympathy for them.

Based on my own personal experience:

If you have any kind of choice, if there's any company who offers tv or internet in your neighborhood, any company at all, go with them instead of Spectrum.



-jp

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