Your cable bill has gone up with an average 4% a year? You might not realize this, but you got off quite well. According to an FCC report cable bills have gone more than 90% since the late 90’s.

In 2005 the average TV cable rate was $43, basic cable $14, and the expanded basic package was $28. Most telecommunication prices have come down because of the deregulation, but it did not work for the TV cable bills.

A frustrated customer called his provider in LA to ask for a discount (you can always try). This person was paying over $150 per month and was hoping for a 10% discount. To his surprise he got his monthly cable bill reduced to less than $100!

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This person is among a lot of savvy customers who no longer accept high monthly bill who keep on increasing without a good explanation. Give your local cable company a call for a discount can be a good idea.

Another solution is the internet, take a basic internet subscription, call over the internet (by using skype or other services), and watch all TV channels over the web.

Cable bill increases are going to hit you again this year. Last year the average price for a monthly cable subscription was $75 and a lot of customers where paying more than $ 100.

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This year the average price increase will be 5%! This means that at this rate you will be paying $95 a month for TV in five years.

The reason for these increases are that cable companies make huge investments which not always pay off, so they need to find a way to get those costs covered. They do this by milking the cow which (they think) cannot go elsewhere, meaning you, the loyal cable subscriber who wants to see the popular shows.

But now all cable companies are faced with web-based television, with content for free or for almost nothing. Various services are available which offer you your favorite show for nothing or for a small fraction of your monthly cable bills.

The question is how are cable companies going to catch up? A lot of their customers already found out that they can see much of their favorite shows through internet services which costs much less than cable. So far cable companies have not yet figured out how to adapt to the way the web distributes contents. If you like to reduce your cable bill you should consider the alternatives the internet offers to your cable company.

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What does Self Installation – TV – Cox Assisted mean on your cox cable bill. They put this on my bill and im trying to see if they are charging fees for no reason.

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My cable bill went out with io and a representative came by to take all boxes I’ve never heard of this ever are they allowed to do this

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ok i dont even know how to explain this im 20 and my little brother is 16 my father has child support since im 18 as far as i kno he only pay for my little bro cuz im old now , not sure how that works. i kno its not much money that my mom gets weekly , he works in this company and has many discounts on money he is saving right from the job like a program they have something like that well point is my mom gets SSI shes epileptic she gets about 700 every month my father takes that money for bills?? yet we still dont have cable? he dont buy me a new bed? and he takes back the money of childsupport too for "" bills "" he says he only gets payed like 100, 120$ NO MORE MONEY FROM HIS PAYCHECK BECAUSE ALL THE DISCOUNTS like tax and all that …. is it possible from a man to pay child support his own rent his own bills who dosent live with us the goverment really will just leav him witn 100 or 120$ a week and he works real hard sometimes more then 40 hours. ???? i need to know if the goverment will really leave him with such a little amout for him self ?? ( i have one of his check thing and it says gross pay 551.00 but if from 05.27.11 i dont know what that means )