Tag: charter
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Charter’s CEO Blames Password Sharing “Piracy” For Their Subscriber Losses
This week Charter reported a net loss of 104,000 traditional video subscribers in the third quarter 2017. Other companies have blamed hurricanes and other pressures, but Charter’s CEO is blaming password sharing. “There’s a lot of pressure on the video business,” Charter’s CEO Thomas Rutledge said. “The biggest pressure is price. But the second biggest…
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Charter’s Pay TV Subscriber Losses Speed Up
Charter’s Spectrum TV service saw a big jump in the number of lost subscribers. According to their third quarter 2017 report, their pay TV subscribers dropped by 104,000. That is a noticeable increase from the 47,000 they lost in the same quarter 2016. Charter now has about 16.5 million US customers. There is some good…
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Comcast & Charter Are Trying to Slow the Growth of Inexpensive TV Packages
Over the last few years, the growth of inexpensive streaming services has started to take a noticeable bite out of traditional pay-TV services. Now companies such as Viacom, Discovery, A&E, and AMC are pushing for inexpensive sports-free packages and others are pushing streaming services. Both do not seem to be sitting well with the likes…
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Charter Starts Testing 5G Wireless Home Internet
5G Internet is the dream of many in the world of cord cutting. With 5G Internet you can get gigabyte speeds wirelessly to your home, office, or RV. No longer would you have to let them run a wire to your house but you can now just access your Internet over the air. Charter is…
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Merger Alert: Charter is Trying to Buy Cox Cable
Well it seems we are about to see a major broadband merger once again. According to the New York Post Charter Communications the second largest cable giant whose properties include Spectrum, formerly Time Warner Cable is now looking at buying Atlanta-based Cox Communications. This would likely make Charter the largest cable company in the United…
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Verizon Offered $100 Million for Charter Communications
Verizon has been working for some time to find a company to merge with. For months Charter and Verizon had talks about a possible merger. Why is Verizon looking to buy a cable TV company? Reports are that the wireless phone service growth has slowed, and Verizon is facing pressure from AT&T. The merger of…
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Charter Just Lost 100,000 TV Subscribers
It seems 2017 has been a bad year for Charter as it started out with a loss of 100,000 traditional video customers in the first quarter 2017. In total Charter lost 2% of its subscribers compared to the same time in 2016. In what is just one more sign of the power of cord cutting,…
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Are You a Charter Internet Customer? You May Have Been Overcharged
It seems Charter is having some growing pains as it absorbs Bright House Networks. Charter mistakenly charged customers it acquired from its purchase of Bright House Network a $10 “Wi-Fi Activation Fee” that it should not have and is now facing a lawsuit. “Some former Bright House Networks Internet customers were inadvertently charged the Wi-Fi…
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Charter’s Spectrum TV Adds a New Fee For Local Channels
Are you still paying for cable TV from Charter? Did it convince you that local TV plus Internet was less expensive than Internet-only? Get ready, you are about to pay an extra fee… Starting this month all Charter Communications customers who have their TV service will pay an extra $4.47 a month for the right…
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New York’s AG is Suing TWC & Charter Over Slow Internet Speeds
It has long been expected that internet service providers are not offering the speeds they advertise. Yet we have never had proof to back up these claims. So back in 2011, the FCC began recruiting volunteers, giving them custom-firmware embedded routers tracked by a company named SamKnows. This real-word network performance data helped inform FCC…