Comcast 'wins' Consumerist worst-company tournament

[onehandle]

(Apparently this article is from 2010 which I failed to notice)

The votes are in, and Comcast has won Consumerist's uncoveted "Worst Company in America" award.

The Philadelphia telecom firm beat runner-up Ticketmaster in the last round of voting by a margin of 59 to 41 percent -- ending a two-year losing streak that saw it crushed by AIG in 2009 and run over by Countrywide Home Loans in 2008.

This year, Comcast faced a smoother road to victory in the NCAA-tournament-style competition of Consumerist, a snarky blog acquired by Consumer Reports at the end of 2008. Not even the personal lobbying of Comcast customer service director Frank Eliason in comments slowed its campaign. (You may know Eliason on Twitter as "comcastcares"; between that and his showing on Consumerist's message boards, I think he's more than earned a raise.)

Comcast's less-"successful" rivals included fellow final four contenders Bank of America, Cash4Gold and Ticketmaster, plus 28 other companies; all were nominated by Consumerist readers in March before voting kicked off a month ago. As usual, the computing, telecom, airline and credit-card industries made strong showings.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/04/comcast_wins_consumerist_worst.html

[liberal N proud]

1. Can't wait until we have to deal with their customer service

After they consume Time Warner.

[corkhead]

2. Did you notice that this article is from 2010? I knew something was up

having recently flown Spirit Airlines, the more deserving 2014 winner.

[onehandle]

3. Oops. This link was in a newsfeed.

Should have been only new articles.

Oh well...

[Blue_Tires]

4. Besides, I though Electronic Arts was running away with these 'awards'

they won something similar to this like three years in a row...

[RobinA]

5. What's Funny Is

I've heard Comcast hate for years now, I know people who have problems with them, but we have had zero problems ever. The one time a component went bad (theirs) they took back the old one and handed over a new one with no problem.

[onehandle]

6. We had Comcast for years and rarely had any problem with the service or customer relations.

But a Comcast monopoly will be nothing but pain for the consumer.

Internet access rates will skyrocket. Packages will be even more highly restrictive and load us with services we don't want.

The delivery of video over the Internet is starting to provide us with what is inevitable. Ala Carte programming.

Comcast wants to prevent this, or at least control this at any cost. Did you know that around ten dollars of your cable bill goes to ESPN, even if you don't have it?

They want us to have dumb boxes forever.

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