Tag: Spectrum
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Spectrum’s CEO Blames PlayStation Vue For Password Sharing & Subscriber Losses
Last week Spectrum held its 3rd quarter 2019 earnings call. During that call, executives from Spectrum took a question about their recent deal with Disney to crack down on password sharing. In the answer, a senior Spectrum executive blamed the growing problem of password sharing on live TV streaming services that offer streaming on up…
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Spectrum Lost 77,000 TV Customers in The 3rd Quarter of 2019
Today Spectrum announced their 3rd quarter 2019 subscriber numbers. In that report, it was announced that Spectrum lost 77,000 TV subscribers in just 3 months. This comes as Spectrum residential video customers decreased by 141,000 in the 2nd quarter of 2019. One of the bright spots for Spectrum was that they added 351,000 Internet customers…
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Spectrum & Fox Team Up to Crack Down on Piracy & Password Sharing
Today Spectrum and Fox announced a new long term deal that will keep FOX Television Stations, FOX News Channel, FOX Business Network, FS1, FS2, BTN, and FOX Deportes on Spectrum TV. As part of this deal, Spectrum and FOX have agreed to work together to “mitigate piracy, implementing business rules to address unauthorized access to…
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How to Cancel Spectrum TV & Save Money But Still Watch Your Shows
Canceling Spectrum and becoming a cord cutter can sound scary at first, with a ton of options and decisions to make, but we hope this guide will show you that cord cutting is surprisingly easy. In fact, you may already have most, if not everything, you need. Today we are going to help you cancel…
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Spectrum Admits the Average Cable TV Customer Pays Over $180 a Month
For some time now the argument against cord cutting has been the idea that you can save money by getting a cable TV package for under $100 a month. Now Spectrum seems to have hurt that argument by admitting that the average Spectrum customer pays $180.42 for Internet and TV. Recently Spectrum struck a deal…
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Spectrum is Forcing You to Pay for TV if You Want Internet at Some Apartments
Do you live in an apartment complex that has a contract with Spectrum? You may soon be forced to pay for TV if you want Spectrum Internet. This week Spectrum started to reach out to customers who live in specific apartment complexes to notify them that they have reached a new bulk-rate deal with the…
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Spectrum, Altice, & Cable One Have an Internet Monopoly in Over Half of Their Markets
Over the last few years, we have seen a growing number of services try to launch high-speed Internet options to compete with traditional cable and DSL Internet. The hope has been to offer true competition for home Internet. Now according to a report from Grounded Reason, we get an idea of why more competition is…
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Spectrum is Raising its TV & Internet Pricing (The Third Price Hike on Broadcast TV in 12 Months)
A few weeks ago, Cord Cutters News broke the news that Spectrum will start rolling out a price hike across most of its plans this October. This includes TV packages and internet services. Yesterday Spectrum started to send out notifications to customers informing them of this October price hike. With this price change, you will…
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Spectrum is Offering Free Internet at 44,000 Locations in North & South Carolina During Hurricane Dorian
Today Spectrum announced it is opening up its network of 44,000 Spectrum WiFi hotspots in North and South Carolina to anyone who needs them. Typically you have to be a Spectrum customer to access these networks but right now during Hurricane Dorian, spectrum is removing the need for a username and password to access its…
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Spectrum is Offering Free Internet at 32,000 Locations in Florida During Hurricane Dorian
Today Spectrum announced it is opening up its network of 32,000 Spectrum WiFi hotspots in Florida to anyone who needs them. Typically you have to be a Spectrum customer to access these networks but right now during Hurricane Dorian spectrum is removing the need for a username and password to access its WiFi hotspots. “In…