People are paying 40% more for cable than they were 5 years ago
The average price people are paying for cable has skyrocketed by 40% over the last five years, according to a new study from Leichtman Research. …
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Believe it or not, everyone still hates cable companies and ISPs
We probably didn’t need a survey to confirm this, but the 10,000 consumers polled for the 2016 Temkin Experience Ratings agree that TV and internet service providers …
Comcast is using a lame excuse to avoid competition for cable boxes
Cable boxes are one of the biggest money sucks in pay TV (and when we’re talking about an industry that charges you money to watch …
ISPs’ latest dirty trick is removing data caps if you pay for TV
Cable companies that have long milked cable subscriptions for profit are worried about how they’re going to replace that cash among new generations of cable-cutters. …
Netflix saves you 160 hours of TV commercials each year
Cord cutting doesn’t only save you money — it saves you time as well. In fact, it turns out that Netflix may be saving you from …
Netflix’s popularity among young and older viewers continues to rise
The rising popularity of Netflix represents a two-pronged threat to the cable industry. On one hand, cable companies need to keep subscribers who pay upwards …
Another reason to cut the cord: Cost of cable is increasing much faster than inflation
While services like Netflix and Hulu have made accessing media content more affordable than ever before, the price of cable, somewhat curiously, has continued to …
Phone and cable companies have been ripping you off for years – here’s how to strike back
Your phone and cable company could charge you a lot less than they do right now and still make a healthy profit. We know this …
Cable providers still have no answer for Netflix as cord-cutting accelerates
While cable providers over the past few decades have grown fat off of exorbitant cable packages that overcharge and under-deliver, the rise of streaming services …
Netflix strikes again: Streaming services now as popular as cable TV
The ongoing fight for the collective viewing attention of consumers is absolutely fascinating to watch; not only are we in the midst of a highly competitive …
How we know Netflix is winning: TV networks want to slash ads
The cord cutting phenomenon isn’t as huge as many of the hyperbolic headlines would have you believe, but that doesn’t mean the growing popularity of …
Cord cutting triumph: Pay TV industry hit with record subscriber losses
The traditional pay TV bundle is slowly dying. New data released by research firm SNL Kagan this week showed that pay TV services lost a …
Pay TV stocks are getting hammered and it’s all thanks to cord cutters
Cable companies love to call cord cutters an overhyped myth, but now these supposedly phantom TV fans are hurting the pay TV industry where it matters …
How to Lower Your Cable Bill with Help from the FCC
A few things are certain in life: Death, taxes and monthly cable bills that keep going up. However, Ars Technica has found that filing formal complaints …
This is why you have to pay for every single channel when you sign up for cable TV
Have you ever wondered why you have to pay for every channel under the sun when signing up for a cable TV subscription? If you …
The fall of cable is coming
Cable is amazing. For as much as people justifiably rag on cable providers, the actual content and breadth of channels is absolutely mesmerizing. When you …
3 ways cable companies may try to ruin Apple’s TV streaming service
Apple’s online TV streaming service may be a shot across the bow of cable companies, but you shouldn’t expect the cable giants to take this …
Despite the cable industry’s denial, cord cutting is only getting more popular
It used to be that cable companies could brush off the tiny minority of TV viewers who watched shows primarily over the Internet as a …
The definitive guide to lowering your phone, Internet and cable bills
Cable bills have been increasing at triple the rate of inflation and it’s a good bet that your wireless bill has shot up in recent years …
Why cut the cord? Cable stations just gave you another big reason
As if you didn’t already have enough reasons to cut the cord and rely on streaming services to get your TV fix, cable stations themselves …
18 ways to kill your cable TV subscription once and for all
In a perfect world, we’d all be able to ditch our cable TV subscriptions for a single app or an affordable device. Sadly, that’s not …
Forget 1Gbps – the cable industry says you don’t even need 25Mbps
There are times when it’s easy to picture cable companies as Mr. Bumble, the orphanage headmaster in Oliver Twist (i.e., “Please, sir, I want some more bandwidth!” …
What CES 2015 made clear: The cable industry has lost its power to control how we watch TV
If the cable industry had its way, we’d all be stuck subscribing to $150 TV bundles forever and ever. However, the rise of over-the-top online …
Delusional TV execs say people love paying $100 a month for hundreds of channels they don’t watch
With the launch of HBO’s standalone streaming service hitting sometime next year, you may think that the traditional cable bundle is starting to come, well, …
Cable companies shrug off cord cutters by jacking up broadband prices
So you think you’re going to save money by canceling your cable TV service and watching your favorite shows through online streaming options? Sure, that …
Smaller cable providers realize cord cutters are the future
Big providers like Comcast and Time Warner Cable may want to cling to the past but it looks like smaller cable providers seem to know …
Another benefit to cord cutting: It will slash your monthly electric bill
If you find your electric bill has skyrocketed this summer, your air conditioner may not be the only culprit. The Los Angeles Times reports that …
Over half of cable subscribers would ditch their providers if they had a choice
It’s not hard to figure out why cord cutting has become a popular phenomenon: consumers hate their cable providers. Not all of them, of course, …
Major FCC study finds cable bills have been rising at over triple the rate of inflation
Looking for a reason why people hate their cable companies? Well, there are likely several reasons but one of them is undoubtedly the constant stream …
Yes, your phone and cable bills have been getting ridiculously expensive
If you find that your monthly phone and cable bills have been eating into a bigger chunk of your budget, you aren’t alone — in …
