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June 11, 2009

Verizon Accuses Comcast of False Advertising

Filed under: In the News — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — admin @ 3:46 pm
…and hit them with a “cease and desist” letter.  Read the details at Philly.com Verizon says that Comcast’s ad claimimng that ”a comparable triple-play bundle of TV, phone and Internet service from Verizon can cost $400 more a year, after promotions expire, than one from Comcast” is outright false and Verizon would challenge the advertisements’ truthfulness [...]

…and hit them with a “cease and desist” letter.  Read the details at Philly.com

Verizon says that Comcast’s ad claimimng that ”a comparable triple-play bundle of TV, phone and Internet service from Verizon can cost $400 more a year, after promotions expire, than one from Comcast” is outright false and Verizon would challenge the advertisements’ truthfulness through the National Advertising Division of the Councils of Better Business Bureaus if Comcast failed to change them.

Comcast responded with the “They did it first!” defense.

Regardless of all of this BS, remember that this is nothing more than SMOKE & MIRRORS.  There is no real competition between these companies.  The higher-ups of all of these companies colluded long ago against the consumers that they will not compete on price!  That would eat into their profits.  It’s all about market share now.

The only way to bust their model is to CUT-THE-CABLE, (and have a nice day!)

May 15, 2009

Tuscaloosans Drop Comcast for AT&T U-Verse

Filed under: Rants — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — admin @ 11:27 am
Read about the excitement in the TuscaloosNews.Com Forums section. Consumers in Tuscaloosa, Alabama are elated that the Comcast monopoly in their area has finally been broken by availability of the AT&T U-Verse product.  Here are some of the more notable comments: the COMCAST office was overflowing with AT&T converts turning in their boxes You could [...]

Read about the excitement in the TuscaloosNews.Com Forums section.

Consumers in Tuscaloosa, Alabama are elated that the Comcast monopoly in their area has finally been broken by availability of the AT&T U-Verse product.  Here are some of the more notable comments:

  • the COMCAST office was overflowing with AT&T converts turning in their boxes
  • You could hear the joy in their voice
  • the quality is noticeably better and the features and channel selections are awesome
  • Comcast has been a monopoly (in Tuscaloosa) and as such has become fat and lazy
  • I could not be happier if Comcast went out of business
  • It was hasta la vista, etc. And we haven’t looked back.
  • Comcast is terrible, eventually everyone’s quality of service (or thier lack of) comes around to bite them in the arse
  • I have a neighbor who calls them concast. His theory: they are conning us out of our money, and casting us into the ignore bin of customer service
  • The only people I feel badly for with the Comcast situation are the people who may loose jobs over this. But the company has no one to blame but themselves for their lousy service.
  • Comcast had the most horrible customer service in town. I’d probably smile inside a little if they closed.
  • Comcast was the slowest “high-speed” internet I ever had. And we’ve had internet all over the country, including in Hawaii

Just one last comment to celebrate all former Comcast slaves…

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.”   -MARTIN LUTHER KING JR-

April 14, 2009

Comcast COO Steve Burke is Offensive

Filed under: Insider Stuff — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — admin @ 12:16 am
Read this ditty at FREEP.COM What started out as a hometown interview with Comcast COO Steve Burke has turned into a Comcast-Bashing free-for-all. With idiotic comments like “”We’re continuing to invest in the business. We’re giving people raises, we’re hiring people, we still have a match for 401(k) contributions” and; “stock price has dropped by [...]

Read this ditty at FREEP.COM

What started out as a hometown interview with Comcast COO Steve Burke has turned into a Comcast-Bashing free-for-all. With idiotic comments like
“”We’re continuing to invest in the business. We’re giving people raises, we’re hiring people, we still have a match for 401(k) contributions”
and;
“stock price has dropped by about half since the start of 2007, closing Monday at $14.36 a share — but it has posted steady profits of $2.5 billion each of the past three years as sales grew from $25 billion in 2006 to more than $34 billion last year.”
it’s no wonder that people in Detroit who are struggling with their livelihoods are LIVID with this company and their leadership’s insensitivity towards how this ecomomy is impacting their customers.

Hey Steve-O…have you ever considered taking care of your customers first instead of your MINIONS.  Why don’t you give yourself a bonus. You deserve it, buddy!

April 7, 2009

Comcast & Sprint: A Marriage Made in Hell

Filed under: Insider Stuff — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — admin @ 4:44 pm
How can 1+1=0?  See the Business Insider to find out. Speculation of Comcast buying Sprint heats up after Comcast CEO Brian Roberts spoke at a cable show in Washington D.C. on 4/1/09. “Wireless is a conundrum for the cable industry”  Conundrum..interesting!  Kinda like “how do you make cable wireless?” “AT&T and Verizon are not the elephants [...]

How can 1+1=0?  See the Business Insider to find out.

Speculation of Comcast buying Sprint heats up after Comcast CEO Brian Roberts spoke at a cable show in Washington D.C. on 4/1/09.

  • “Wireless is a conundrum for the cable industry”  Conundrum..interesting!  Kinda like “how do you make cable wireless?”
  • “AT&T and Verizon are not the elephants in the room, they’re the super elephants, They’ve got all the market share, and it’s going to be a tough road to hoe” If they are the ‘Super Elephants’ then you must be JABBA THE HUTT.  Quote from JTH: “This bounty hunter is my kind of scum: fearless and inventive.”
  • “Putting a bunch of us in a company with the benefit of Sprint and their infrastructure felt like an interesting road for us to go into” Hey!  There’s an idea.  Let’s BUY a company with an infrastructure that actually…WORKS!
  • Roberts also avoided a clear answer to the question as to whether Clearwire was Comcast’s sole wireless strategy, indicating that Comcast’s “current” focus was making Clearwire successful. Hmmmm, I can’t image anyone from Comcast avoiding a clear answer to a queston (-;  It appears that Comcast’s Customer Service takes their marching orders right from the top!

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