Do you also want to throttle Comcast?

They are all screwing everyone. In the USA people need to come together cause if the masses would uniet we wouldn't have these problems. This reminds me of the politics. If the people in the USA who should be democrats would be then the country would be great. Instead we have the republicans going along with people who want to keep us divided so we continue to fall.

I have so many stories & I guess others do too, about how they have ripped me off so many times. We pay too much for too little.

My Comcast tends to raise my cable bill "only by a few dollars" but it happens several times a year for no understandably reason--so I can't anticipate it happening and can't do anything in advance. I'm now paying close to $80 for extended basic cable and we only watch maybe 10 channels (including the ones we'd get without any cable at all). But if we cancel, or switch to a cheaper thing, they charge you for it. It's why so many people have now hooked up their tvs to their computers, bypassing cable/satellite tv altogether. I know Earthlink (and I think People PC) still offer internet service, they might still give a slight discount for senior citizens. Might depend on where you live though. Yea, and my landline is through ATT who tacks on so many fees I'm paying like $40 each month even when we make NO calls on the landline, it's all extra fees. Got a Magic Jack but can't figure out how it works (but haven't read the papers either). My cell is a TracFone which I hardly use at all so I pay $10 a month for service, which is too much since I don't make many calls on it but I feel I need a cell phone for emergencies. And as we get nearer retirement, we keep debating whether we really need tv, maybe we can get what we want through Netflix (or facsimile thereof) and over the internet. You'd think there'd be more discounts for senior citizens out there. I don't even want to consider what the internet bill is going to be in the future. And I may have to cut back on my games when I no longer have an income--YIKES! Might have to go back to reading!!

I have Comcast basically because I have to...I work from home and my employer is contracted with Comcast, and pays for internet service for my work computer...and I don't feel like mucking around with two different/separate internet/cable providers and all the wiring and whatnot that goes along with it, so I stayed with Comcast for my personal computer (separate modem) and cable TV...but I wasn't forced to "bundle"...my land line is still through AT&T. I always have to laugh at the early termination fees with the cable/cellphone companies...if I break the contract I'm charged a ridiculous fee...but if I simply stop paying the bill...they'll terminate my service and it'll cost me nothing.

I've been with ATT for years. Internet is $14.99...when the special is up I switch to another special. Att land line is $5.00 a month now. I had the extra $5 removed my a supervisor because I do my long distance on my cell phone. The cell phone is an ATT Go Phone. I get the one year plan for $100 a month and it's all the minutes I need, and they roll over each year.

Now, my cable tv is Comcast. It's the limited basic for $21 a month and all the channels I need. I'm usually on here. Good luck to you.

Every year BEFORE the yearly contract with Comcast is up my husband calls and renegotiates. You have to do it before it runs out. They are then locked in to a certain price for a year. Mostly this works.

We tried Verizon for a day because we were so upset with Comcast until he got them to work with us. It took as a month to get our phone service back (we had NO phone all this time) and cost us $50 we should have gotten back because they lied to us. I dislike Verizon VERY much.

We are all at their mercy.

PS Where I live we cannot get AT & T and Comcast is our only option except Direct TV or The Dish. The Dish tries to hook you up with Verizon internet saying it's "high speed". When we had peoplepc dial up IT was faster.

I get my internet from Frontier, one of the worst communications companies in America--and in the world. Three times this year (so far) they have slipped extra charges into my bills, and when I call to ask how these "accidents" happened, they always apologize, but then say they have no way of knowing how the bills they send me are created.

They also are incredibly incompetent technically. There are frequent outages, the software they use has bugs in it, and if you need to talk with them about a technical problem, you typically have to spend anywhere from one to five hours on the phone.

Even so, every week or two, on average, I get a sales call from some poor wage slave in one of their boiler rooms, reading me a canned spiel--always exactly the same script--in an effort to sell me services that I already have.

I have AT&T for internet on a promotion and my location the speed is the same as Comcast. You can cancel Comcast and when they have another promotion, switch back

If I had a choice I would get a satellite, it is cheaper.

I have used cable because I don't watch that much television but I would suggest going to Best Buy as they carry services from many providers.

Out here in Podunksville, we can only get DirecTV--no cable, 2 phone providers, & one wired internet service, & a couple other dial-ups.

Im with a sorry company called mediacom for both cable and internet, they added a new kiddie channel then raised their rates $5. like i need a kiddie channel to watch,