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kane · 01-20-2009, 05:53 PM

All the talk of downloading on the board today led to an interesting conversation at lunch with a friend of mine. About 6 months ago I got rid of my cable TV and only have an antenna. I am fine with it since I hardly watch TV. The reason the cable went away is because of a network upgrade by my cable company.

When I first moved into my house I hooked up cable TV and cable modem. The cable TV was expensive and sucked so I dropped it and went to the dish, but kept the internet connection. Later I dropped the dish as well. One afternoon I get a letter from my cable company telling me my internet access is going up $10 a month. I call them and after a short conversation the guy ends up telling me that the reason it is going up is because to have internet access they have to have the line on which means I have basic cable coming to the house and they have no way of shutting it off. So they were forcing me to pay for it regardless of if I used it or not. After that call I hooked up a TV to the cable and he was correct I had basic cable. So for the last 3 years I have had basic cable.

They just upgraded their network and are now able to shut the cable off. They offered me a deal to keep it on for a small fee, but I almost never watch it so I didn't take the offer.

So I feel that the company told me the service was coming to my house and charged me for it so by using it I was not stealing. My friend said that I was because I was not paying the actual price of basic cable (which was around $30) yet still got the full basic cable package and that since my internet access price didn't drop back down once it was shut off shows that the raise in price was never really for access to cable TV.

Thoughts?

01-20-2009, 05:53 PM
kane Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: portland, OR Posts: 20,684	Opinion: Was I stealing cable for the last three years? All the talk of downloading on the board today led to an interesting conversation at lunch with a friend of mine. About 6 months ago I got rid of my cable TV and only have an antenna. I am fine with it since I hardly watch TV. The reason the cable went away is because of a network upgrade by my cable company. When I first moved into my house I hooked up cable TV and cable modem. The cable TV was expensive and sucked so I dropped it and went to the dish, but kept the internet connection. Later I dropped the dish as well. One afternoon I get a letter from my cable company telling me my internet access is going up $10 a month. I call them and after a short conversation the guy ends up telling me that the reason it is going up is because to have internet access they have to have the line on which means I have basic cable coming to the house and they have no way of shutting it off. So they were forcing me to pay for it regardless of if I used it or not. After that call I hooked up a TV to the cable and he was correct I had basic cable. So for the last 3 years I have had basic cable. They just upgraded their network and are now able to shut the cable off. They offered me a deal to keep it on for a small fee, but I almost never watch it so I didn't take the offer. So I feel that the company told me the service was coming to my house and charged me for it so by using it I was not stealing. My friend said that I was because I was not paying the actual price of basic cable (which was around $30) yet still got the full basic cable package and that since my internet access price didn't drop back down once it was shut off shows that the raise in price was never really for access to cable TV. Thoughts?