Tired of Cable TV

[399083453]

Originally Posted by Last1Standing

Are you referring to Fairpoint? I've been really shocked at Fairpoint's dishonest tactics and incompetence. My log of calls to them to straighten out the mess is several pages long. It took months to get even one correct bill.

Yep, been there, done that. Very incompetent. The company is wasting quite a bit of payroll on customer service reps who have no idea what they are doing.

[Pretzelogik]

Originally Posted by Van David

I have been a Comcast customer for many years. I have found out that Manchester is about to sign a new contract with them to provide exclusive service to Manchester again. I am considering switching to Satellite. I am not a fan of Comcast anymore. My question is, does anyone use Dish Network and how do you like the service and quality of their product. I had checked out Direct TV, but they would actually cost me more then I am paying now.

Get an over the air antenna for local stations, a Roku for hundreds of apps, subscribe to Hulu or Netflix fro about 10 bucks a month and say goodbye to the whole mess. Also YouTube has billion of bits of data stored on everything you can imagine.

[Nonesuch]

Are you referring to Fairpoint? I've been really shocked at Fairpoint's dishonest tactics and incompetence. My log of calls to them to straighten out the mess is several pages long. It took months to get even one correct bill.

Speaking of bills, I cancelled Fairpoint over a year ago, and ever since I have received monthly zero dollar bills from them in the mail.

Originally Posted by 399083453

Yep, been there, done that. Very incompetent. The company is wasting quite a bit of payroll on customer service reps who have no idea what they are doing.

The only good thing I can say about Fairpoint is their technical service reps were always on-shore and had a solid grasp of both American-English and technology.

Originally Posted by Pretzelogik

Get an over the air antenna for local stations, a Roku for hundreds of apps, subscribe to Hulu or Netflix fro about 10 bucks a month and say goodbye to the whole mess. Also YouTube has billion of bits of data stored on everything you can imagine.

If you want to stream Netflix in HD, you still need a source of "unlimited" broadband Internet, and for large parts of New Hampshire, the only option is the local cable company.

Last time I looked at Comcast's rates for my town, unbundled Internet was ten bucks more than Internet+Basic cable.

[NHDave]

Originally Posted by katie45

I live near Kansas City

Then why are you in a New Hampshire thread talking about cable TV options?

What you do in Kansas City isn't even remotely relevant here.

[NHDave]

Originally Posted by 399083453

Yep, been there, done that. Very incompetent. The company is wasting quite a bit of payroll on customer service reps who have no idea what they are doing.

They've completely hosed up a number of my business clients. They go in a pitch a great deal with no idea of the clients network setup, client jumps onboard without calling us, and their network goes completely offline and their email goes down the minute they are switched over.