Dish Network vs Cable
Cable TV deals are easy to find, that is as long as you aren’t already a subscriber to Comcast or Time Warner.
The reason for that is because the cable TV guys want to build their subscriber base, so of course they are ready to offer you a great deal, usually for the first six months of service. The cable provider understands if you sign up with them, you may set up a so-called bundled packages that puts all of your services together like voice, video and internet.
You can almost alway get a triple play bundle for around 0 a month for the first year. Consider the following example with cable company pricing: Basic TV costs a month, high speed internet is per month, and phone service is a month. With prices like this, your overall bill would be 0 per month plus all of the taxes and charges that are tacked on to the cable bill.
But it is good to consider how this might turn out down the road Well think about where you will be once your promotional period is over. You will have all of your television sets hooked up to cable TV, your high speed internet with your e-mail address with the cable company, and of course your phone service with the cable company as well. But all at once your price goes up almost 50%, from about $100 every month to $140+ every month. Its not alway easy to switch out of your provider?
Maybe, maybe not. The smart thing to do ahead of time is compare providers before making your final choice.One would be smart to compare Suddenlink vs Dish Network before making a hasty decision.
While you might logically say it is easy to switch to some kind of deal from Direct Tv or something else from your local phone company like FiOS from Verizon. But that may be a situation of easier said than done. Usually the time and inconvenience of switching from cable to satellite TV makes the customer yield to whatever service they have. Even though the monthly bill is high, the subscriber stays with the cable company because they have all the services in a package, making it harder to switch. That is what the cable television company counts on when giving the subscriber a good short term deal.
Posted by admin on December 1st, 2009 :: Filed under Satellite TV
Tags :: at&T, cable tv, comcast, direct tv, triple play, verizon