Tell the Freepers their cable rates are going up

[Ian David]

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=%22cable+rates%22+January+2005

[Goldeneye]

1. Good news.

Maybe some will have to give up their fox news...

[LTR]

2. A backdoor tax hike?

http://in.rediff.com/money/2004/dec/02cable.htm

Cable subscribers will have to pay more from 2005 with the Telecom Regulatory Authority deciding on Wednesday to revise charges upwards by seven per cent in view of high inflation.

TRAI, which had put a ceiling on charges with respect to both free-to-air and pay channels till December 26 this year, has now decided to review the ceiling.

"On the basis of analysis done by the Authority, the inflation adjustment works out to seven per cent. Accordingly it has decided to issue an amendment order providing for revision in the ceiling to be effective from January 1, 2005," a TRAI release said in New Delhi.

The new rates will apply for the payments to be made by the consumers, cable operators, multi-system operators for January 2005.

As for the inflation excuse, I don't recall my cable bill staying at a static rate for a reasonable amount of time. It's been going up and up and up.

[ClintonTyree]

3. Revenue Enhancement!!

Not a tax hike, NEVER a tax hike. A "revenue enhancement".

[Deja Q]

5. Well, I never watch regular channels anyway...

(I live in an apartment and shell out $8/mo for essentially nothing I could care for anymore.)

[idiosyncratic]

4. I sure hope they don't find a way to charge me for my TV antenna

The reception isn't great, and the stations are limited, but at least it is free.

[Deja Q]

6. A TV tax would be nice, but only if they nixed commercials AND

had people write decent programming.

Like in the UK, before that decreipt bitch Thatcher tore things apart.

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