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UPDATE: Time Warner Cable Hoists Customer on its Own Petard
By 5.4.06
Last week B wrote in about his struggles with Time Warner Cable. His signal was fine until a neighbor got his cable installed.
Time Warner Cable Hoists Customer on its Own Petard
By 5.2.06
B’s neighbor in the apartment complex got cable installed. The cable hookups for all apartments are located in a common utility closet. Shortly after his neighbor got his cable installed, B noticed his signal strength was vastly degraded.
Yet Another Comcast Customer Burned
By 4.26.06
Comcast, why is your scheduling system made out of peanut-butter and bits of baling wire?
Cable Install Horrors: The Wall Fish Expert
By 4.25.06
A mysterious stranger, spoken of in exuberant tones, he is the one, the Last Scion, he who can magically draw a cable connection through the wall without drilling more holes than a methed-out woodpecker in a balsa wood warehouse, he is… The Wall Fish Expert!
Time Warner Cable Install A Sisyphean Ordeal
By 4.21.06
This is pathetic. Time Warner Cable, you are a corpulent prude whore, an easy slut who won’t put out.
NJ Townsman Fights Verizon on Net Neutrality
By 4.21.06
In the town of Red Bank, NJ Verizon has applied to operate a cable TV service over their fiber optic network, but not everyone is thrilled.
Shopper Sinks Teeth into Cable Company
By 4.7.06
This is the kind of butt-kicking story of shopper’s biting back that makes us bark. Okay, so we bark anyway, damn lycanthropy, but Dave’s story is swift, proactive and in the end, he gets what he wants and needs out of his cable company: a functional product at an acceptable price. Of course, he has to, figuratively speaking, shove a fist in their love handles, rip out their gall bladder and eat it in front of them, but sometimes a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do to get his DVR…
The Cableman Strikes Thrice!
By 4.6.06
We think we’ve discovered the Rosetta Stone of cable company installation stories.
DirecTV Loses Customer Over Hi-Def, Doesn’t Care
By 4.5.06
Chuck from Brooklyn, “one of the lemmings who bought a HD TV recently” writes that he’s “puzzled by the nonchalance with which [DirectTV] let me switch over to their mortal enemy [TimeWarner].”
Waiting for Comcast Install Screed
By 4.5.06
You call up the cable company, schedule an appointment, take off time from work and they don’t show up. You’ve heard, or told, the story many a time. In fact, we receive this same complaint several times a month.
DirecTV Expects Consumers to Pay to Ride in Black Hole
By 3.30.06
J.C.’s TV started flashing black every so often, like a very slow and annoying strobe. His phone calls to his cable service provider, DirecTV, earned him several unfulfilled promises but no results.
AT&T and Verizon CEOs Whine to Congress
By 2.16.06
We love whiny CEOs here at the Consumerist. There’s something special about men with net worths greater than most small nations complaining to Congress about unfairness that tickles our irony receptors. In this case, Ed Whitacre, CEO of AT&T (pictured) and Ivan Seidenberg, CEO of Verizon Communications, traveled to the Capitol to bitch about the regulatory barriers-to-entry that telephone companies have when trying to get into the video delivery business—a business obviously dominated by cable companies.
How To Lower Your Cable Bill And/Or Self-Respect
By 2.16.06
Our luscious sisters over at Lifehacker have called our attention to this advice on lowering your cable bill:
