[NTLUG:Discuss] Some background on tomorrow's meeting, Saturday 10/19

[Leroy Tennison]

On 10/19/2013 01:11 AM, Christopher Cox wrote:
> My (former) U-verse TV is (was) U200 and costs us $103/mo.
>
> $21 of that is the extra receivers we have.
> $10 is for HD
>
> The base U200 is $72.00
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> Then come the "taxes" of $16.43 for various state and local taxes.... (yuk)
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> That brings my total TV bill to $119.43/mo.
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> ........
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> Well, that's the message that helped start it all.  AT&T in a classic "bait and
> switch" technique tricked us (employees) to sign up with huge discounts during a
> time in which they knew they were selling our division off to IBM (and the
> employees did *not* know)....  thus we got U-verse U200 for around $50,
> additional receivers were free, digital phone was free, etc..
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> Obviously, once we were sold, the price went back to the "norm".  Genius move on
> AT&T's part?  Maybe...  maybe, not!!
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> Having been a Comcast and Time Warner customer, I know that at least compared to
> those, U-verse is the "Cadillac" of subscriber style television (including
> price)... but all of the providers aren't interested in a price war, so prices
> stay elevated and really based on "costs" more in tune with the early 2000's.
>
> Shoot, I think we can all think of something to do with $120/mo., right?
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> And... is it possible to do better than the "cadillac" of providers??
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> And... did AT&T "bait and switch" us again?  (that setup was too easy, I think
> you know the answer is "yes", but find out how they did it this time).
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Verizon is about the same price, seems the word "competition" doesn't 
exist in the telco world.