Comcast ready to raise cable rates in Vermont by 3 percent

[CrankyYankee]

With its acquisition of Adelphia's cable system in Vermont only a few months old, Comcast is raising cable rates an average of 3 percent beginning Feb. 1 for its 105,000 customers.

For a Comcast customer with a standard cable package of approximately 70 channels will see the monthly bill go up from $51.90 to $54.25, company spokesman Marc Goodman said Friday.

The rate for Comcast's high-speed Internet service remains unchanged at $42.95 a month.

Goodman said Vermont is the only New England state where Comcast is raising its rates.

Comcast officials previously had said no rate increase was tied to the Adelphia takeover, which was completed in July. However, Goodman said the company has improved programming, including more University of Vermont sporting events, added more high-definition channels and other channels, including the Comcast network.

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[vibe]

At certain times of the day (and night) there are a lot of informecials/paid programming. Combined with the shopping/religious channels someone is making a lot of money and it isn't the cable subscriber. You'd think rates should go down, particularly since the viewer is subject to a lot of KRAP.
The question is who is making all this $$ at our expense?

 

[BRNout]

The question is who is making all this $$ at our expense?

Let me give you a hint: someone is building a brand-new skyscraper in Philadelphia, a palace that will be the tallest building in PA. It is costing hundreds of millions of dollars, yet no one seems to be losing a drop of sweat over it.

Well, who do we know that pushes krap programming - sticks ads everywhere they can [now even on your digital programming guide] - has numerous channels of shopping and informercials (of which they get a cut) - and raises rates all the time?

Follow the smell of freshly extorted money and you'll come up with............COMCAST! ;D