Cable companies are planning to charge more for set-top boxes to help
> pay for new, more expensive versions mandated by the Federal
> Communications Commission.
They also are pushing more channels onto box-only reception, so consumers are forced to rent a box (not cheap) to get channels they used to deliver fine on coax.
They advertised a box for "pennies a day". To me, that would mean at most 10 cents per day, or $3.00 a month. No. The charge was $30.00 a month, or a full _100_ pennies a day. To me that is disceptive advertising.
We consumers either need aggressive consumer protection regulation or true real competition. The cable companies are fleecing all of us big time.
(I'm also frustrated how they say they must pay for broadcast content, yet these so-called 'pay' channels are loaded with nothing but old reruns and a great many commercials. If they have commercials and so many of them, why is it necessary to 'pay' for them?)