Tag: TWC
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Spectrum Is Charging TWC Customers $11.75 Per Month For Every Additional TV
How many TVs do you have in your house? If you are like most of our readers, it is probably more than one. Get ready to pay up if you are a Spectrum customer. Spectrum and other cable TV providers are slowly rolling out their digital cable TV to new markets. That means no longer…
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How To Stop Getting Spam Email And Mail From Comcast, DIRECTV, Dish, TWC, And More
2018 is here and your ex-pay TV provider really wants you back. We all know the pain after you cancel your TV service you get hundreds of emails and letters asking you to come back. Here is how you can get off their contact list for many of the major companies. The first thing you…
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83% of TWC Subscribers to See a Price Hike & Spectrum Says Don’t Bother Threatening to Cancel….
It seems the old trick of threatening to cancel cable to get a better deal is going away now that TWC is Spectrum. As Spectrum is getting ready to update TWC subscribers pricing to Spectrum pricing. Recently Charter Communications Chief Executive Thomas Rutledge spoke at an investment summit about the rising costs of Spectrum for…
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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…
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Charter & TWC Threaten to Disconnect Users Who Pirate Content
2016 has marked a renewed effort to go after Americans who are pirating copyrighted content. We have seen everything from ISPs working on ways to identify pirate live streams to cut them off to Amazon working to cut off sellers or fully loaded Fire TV devices. Now ISPs are threatening to cut off pirates. Recently…
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Time Warner Cable Jumps on The Free TV Bandwagon
Free TV with your Internet service is not a new marketing tactic, and Time Warner Cable is jumping on board; however, there is a catch. Fidelity Cable Networks started this trend a few years back by offering 125 Mbps and free TV for a year as long as you agree to a two-year contract. (Warning:…
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FCC Gives Cord Cutters a Huge Win Over Cable Companies
The FCC is giving cord cutters a huge win in their fight to access the content they want when and how they want it. Recently the FCC and DOJ approved the merger between Charter and Time Warner Cable, but they put an important catch in their approval. For at least seven years Charter will be…
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Cable Companies Want to Charge You Extra for Every TV…
Still have Time Warner Cable? Ready to pay an extra fee for every TV you have in the house? Yup Time Warner Cable will charge you at least $3.75 for every TV you want to watch Time Warner Cable on starting in 2017. The way Time Warner Cable can enforce this $3.75 fee for every…
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Time Warner Cable Moves to Take on Sling TV & It May Be a Good Deal for Some Cord Cutters…
Time Warner Cable is hoping to be one more service that will take on Sling TV by offering packages starting at $9.99, but there are some catches. However, these may be good options for some cord cutters… It looks like TWC is going to join other cable networks, like Charter, and roll out their very…
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Cable Companies Lose Big As Netflix Sees Huge Subscriber Gains In Q2 2015
Americans continue to leave overpriced cable TV companies in 2015. Predictions for subscribers who canceled their video packages—from cable, phone, and satellite providers including Comcast Corp. and Dish Network Corp.—range from about 280,000 to 360,000, based on analysts’ estimates compiled by Bloomberg. While 300,000 still seems very low that would be a noticeable jump from the 189,000…