News article: Adelphia rates go up for Vermont customers in February

[CrankyYankee]

(From the "Rutland Herald")

Adelphia Cable Communications is raising rates(in Vermont)on its expanded cable package of channels by an average of $2.85 a month throughout the state. The good news is that customers of Adelphia's basic package of broadcast stations won't see a rate hike.

In the Rutland area, that means expanded basic cable customers will see their bills increase from $48.95 to $51.90 a month, an increase of $2.95, or 6 percent. The price of the company's basic package of 22 mostly broadcast stations will remain the same at $15.90 a month.

...it increased the rental fee for its digital converters by $1 a month.

Customers who subscribe to one of the company's "Advantagepaks," which combine digital cable and high-speed Internet, will see their rates go up an additional $1 a month. The high-speed Internet rate for all other subscribers remains the same.

(Read this article at the following link

http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/p...0051124/NEWS/511240388/1004&template=printart



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</P><P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by CrankyYankee on 11/24/05 01:15 PM.</FONT></P>

 

[KML0224]

Hmmm...and we all know which cable giant will follow suit. It ryhmes with Tom-fast.

 

[fatbastard]

> Hmmm...and we all know which cable giant will follow suit.
> It ryhmes with Tom-fast.
>

Comcast has already said they're raising rates in '06. Who do you think
is going to pay for all that expensive NHL garbage on OLN?!

Watch people run to the new Verizon FIOS when it arrives in Mass.
early next year. Some towns like MIddleborough are already
negotiating with Verizon to be town's exclusive cable provider.

 

[Les]

yer too late

> Hmmm...and we all know which cable giant will follow suit.

Comcast already announced their new, higher rates around Sacramento.
By amazing coincidence they're about penny-for-penny with Adelphia.

At what point to people decide having thirty seven shopping channels
and five or more all-religion-all-the-time channels just isn't worth
the money? Of course they'll never go back to reading...that's a
forgotten skill. Maybe street rioting instead? I've heard it said
that the French riots were really inspired by the high cost of watching
television so they found a new way to relieve the boredom. Or maybe
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[KML0224]

> Watch people run to the new Verizon FIOS when it arrives in
> Mass.
> early next year. Some towns like MIddleborough are already
> negotiating with Verizon to be town's exclusive cable
> provider.
>

Any news on a competing cable service for any part of Connecticut? Granted Verizon isn't our phone company (SBC is...for now).

 

[chitchatjf]

> > Hmmm...and we all know which cable giant will follow suit.
>
> > It ryhmes with Tom-fast.
> >
>
> Comcast has already said they're raising rates in '06. Who
> do you think
> is going to pay for all that expensive NHL garbage on OLN?!
>
>
Not me I get Digital plus WithOUT extended basic. and I get select OLN games in HD to boot.

My cable TV bill is around $35. and THAT includes the DVR!

> Watch people run to the new Verizon FIOS when it arrives in
> Mass.
> early next year. Some towns like MIddleborough are already
> negotiating with Verizon to be town's exclusive cable
> provider.
>
you will have to get their phone service as well. It may not be as cost effective as one thinks.

 

[radiodouble]

> > Watch people run to the new Verizon FIOS when it arrives
> in
> > Mass.
> > early next year. Some towns like MIddleborough are already
>
> > negotiating with Verizon to be town's exclusive cable
> > provider.
> >
>
> Any news on a competing cable service for any part of
> Connecticut? Granted Verizon isn't our phone company (SBC
> is...for now).
>
Not that I am aware of.