© 1999-2008 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/Cable_TV_Providers Recent content written about Cable TV Providers en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_442509594244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author artisttype - I have both Charter High Speed internet and television. I have had Cox Cable before and never had any major issues. Charter is another story. When the charter guy came to set up my system the cable box he had didn't work. He told me to tell the office... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~442509594244 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:37:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_442509594244?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_440316235396?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author wxtoad - I had placed our internet service on hold while we were away for the winter. In the spring I called to cancel altogether. A month later I found they charged my credit card for a full month of full service. Many calls to their useless call centers... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~440316235396 Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:32:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_440316235396?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_440176512644?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author dpmccrary - I have been a cable customer for over 12 years first with warner and then comcast came to town. As long as you dont need to talk to the customer service you may be ok. The people they have in the "customer care" dept, don't care. Had Internet and cable... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~440176512644 Wed, 6 Aug 2008 17:16:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_440176512644?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_437414825604?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author pjeans - Forget Customer Service - they don't provide BASIC service. This crap is costing me 130 bux a month, and it goes in and out whenever it likes - the WORST! No point in calling them up, they don't pay the poor c/s people enough to even care. Float this... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~437414825604 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:10:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_437414825604?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_233311407748?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author twinreg1 - Comcast in Philadelphia knows they are a monopoly and they treat their customers as such. Tech support is quite ditzy at times. Comcast just announced they are upping their rates by 3.2% Jan 1, '06. This is their usual blanket statement of how... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~233311407748 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:04:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_233311407748?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435129650820?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author billhaberkam - Horrible HD quality and ridiculous prices! I've only had Comcast for 6 months. My starter promotion just ended and bill shot up to $150 a month. We may have a lot of HD channels and content, but the quality is HORRIBLE. Comcast is compressing the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435129650820 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:04:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435129650820?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_434986454660?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author bcozisayso - Bad package names, not many choices. You will never know what you are paying for which package. Price keeps changing often. NOTHING listed on their website. Biggest scam cable... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~434986454660 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:49:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_434986454660?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_434370678404?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author docdonner - Once you finally get to an actual person, Cox is not so bad. But to get there, plan on spending a lot of time pushing phone buttons. 1 for english, 1 for service, 1 for customer support. Last four of ssn, etc. You can not even push the buttons before... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~434370678404 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:54:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_434370678404?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_433833807492?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author higrafx - I was a happy direct TV customer for 8 years, then moved to a condo in NJ and had to switch to my only choice of, Optimum IO, its like going back in time. God IO Sucks, Direct TV HD was way more stable and reliable. IO HD can’t handle the speed of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~433833807492 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:03:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_433833807492?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_431694188164?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author givn2fli - Between 6pm and 11pm every night of the week expect to get less then 1MB download speeds. Mediacom has admitted to my neighbor that the infrastructure in place in our town is not setup to handle the amount of users on it at one time. The funny thing is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~431694188164 Wed, 28 May 2008 01:16:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_431694188164?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_430690766468?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author lindsay33 - Mediacom has screwed me around for years now and I still can't get rid of them. At this very moment I am on hold with them and my phone now says I've been on the line for almost 31 minutes. I'm no longer a customer of Mediacom (thank God) but I'm... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~430690766468 Mon, 19 May 2008 21:44:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_430690766468?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_429771951748?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author cox-ex-emp - Cox sucks as an employer and a provider. As a provider they are re-active verses pro-active. Most of their employees wait until customer complaints become escalated before they even consider fixing the customers problem. I also called due to my cable... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~429771951748 Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_429771951748?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_428329373316?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author pablothegreat - When you live out in the woods an hour or two from civilization, you really have little choice or selection in cable or internet services. You are very lucky if you have two to choose from. Once we moved here, we had the choice between Charter or one... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~428329373316 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:34:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_428329373316?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_400184217220?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author vcbeautygirl - Time Warner overall is an okay company. My boyfriend and I have them for digital cable and roadrunner, which the services are ok...but it is expensive! We pay at the least $125.00 per month, and we DON't rent the movied from Time Warner. While the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~400184217220 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:25:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_400184217220?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_428068736644?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author bloodline23 - When we moved several years ago, we started off with AT&T for our cable and phone service, but they didn't have high-speed internet access in our area, so we had to use a local company for internet access (Insight Communications). After a year or so of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~428068736644 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:10:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_428068736644?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_427437231748?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author elleaz - I first ordered Cox cable and internet when I moved to Arizona last summer and was dismayed to find out that they did not offer a wireless modem/router as an option. What century are they living in? So I bought my own, but then they provided no support... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~427437231748 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:18:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_427437231748?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_424850787972?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author gwilson29630 - I subscribe to Charter Cable Television and 5M Internet service. It does not matter what I call in reference to, they always find a way to screw it up! Living in a rural area, Cable was the only option for high speed internet as other vendors (DSL,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~424850787972 Mon, 7 Apr 2008 00:00:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_424850787972?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_423898549892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author marshallrjones - when they finally restored my internet and full cable service (the problem was signal strength from THEIR lines, as it is 99 or 100 percent of the time) (why do they need to come in your house before they check the signal strength? they could at least... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~423898549892 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:04:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_423898549892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_423686672004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author turbogina - I have never had such incredibly the worst customer service like have with TIME WARNER CABLE IN SAN DIEGO. I have had issues since Monday 24 March 2008 spend over an hour on the phone with 6 different "TECH SUPPORT" people and dealt with 2 online... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~423686672004 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:10:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_423686672004?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_423567462020?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author ghostchsr - We recently moved and Comcast Cable was listed as the local provider. Since we do not care for satellite television and I was tired of DSL internet service we decided to do Comcast's "Triple Play" and combine our phone, internet and cable. When I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~423567462020 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:39:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_423567462020?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_423219269252?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author hikihome - It is a company with terrible Internet service and customer service! * the technicians are untrained. One spent 3 hours to set up my service. The other spent 1 hours to understand my service was disconnected when Comcast set up the service for... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~423219269252 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:06:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_423219269252?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_418256359044?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author popsrocks - When I first signed up for Cablevision here on Long Island many years ago it was for television reception. No more using the antenna on my roof. The Cablevision company brought a direct cable line from the telephone pole in front of my house and brought... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~418256359044 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:30:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_418256359044?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_418224377476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author pnotturno - Time Warner is fine provided everything is running OK. Good luck if you have to call support. I've been trying for 2 months to get my HDTV up and running and so far all I've been giving is the run around. A tech was supposed to come over this... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~418224377476 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:30:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_418224377476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_417849577092?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 0/5 by: Epinions Author amydal44 - My husband and I recently switched over to Dish Network as part of a bundle package with our telephone/internet service provider. Last Tuesday, unbeknownst to either of us, a Comcast technician came to our home and not only disconnected our cable, but... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~417849577092 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:04:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_417849577092?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_412665810564?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author henry_thoreau - Anywhere on Earth, go online via computer, wireless phone or handset. Enjoy browsing the informative, interactive TV "Guide" with hundreds of digital and HD channels. See what TV programs or movies are (or will be) playing. Then and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~412665810564 Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:24:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_412665810564?linkin_id=8003929