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[PhillyPhreak54]

I moved into my new apartment last weekend so I could get DirecTV. I signed up and got a deal that is about a hundred bucks a month cheaper than what Comcast steals from me each month.

They were supposed to come on Tuesday to install. They hire third party contractors to do this work. Well the shteinbags never showed up. I called customer service a few times before I got the straight answer...they ran out of farging equipment.

The shteinbag installation company lied and said that they contacted me to tell me this, which they did not.

So I have to wait until July 3rd because that was their next appointment.

I called a supervisor and bitched and he comped my first month's bill. I'll take that deal.

On a side note, a bill from Comcast showed up today for $400+. They double billed me for the MLB EI package and added a whole bunch of bullshtein charges.

iceholes.

[SD]

If you have Comcast call as soon as possible and tell them you want to cancel your service. Then wait while they transfer you to a customer service rep. Don't tell them initially you want to lower your bill, you have to tell them you want to cancel. Then watch as they lower your bill $70 a month like they did mine. They're desperate as shtein right now and will do whatever possible to hold onto to customers.

[Seabiscuit36]

DirecTV Formally Asks For Access To Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia
DBS Provider Would Not Say Whether It Will File Complaint With FCC

John Eggerton -- Multichannel News, 6/25/2010 11:29:14 AM

DirecTV has requested access to Comcast's terrestrially delivered regional sports network in Philadelphia.

"We have formally requested the programming," said DirecTV spokesman Robert Mercer.

He had no comment on whether DirecTV would file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission if the cable company did not make Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia available.
"[We] received their request and will review in due course and respond accordingly," said Comcast spokesman Tim Fitzpatrick. He would not elaborate.

The request follows the FCC's notice that the complaint-process portion of its January decision to close the so-called terrestrial exemption had been approved and that that process was open for business.

The FCC in January changed its rules to say that distributors who did not make their co-owned terrestrially delivered nets available to competitors on reasonable terms and conditions would be presumptively in violation of its program access rules. Before that the FCC had exempted terrestrial nets, in most cases it was regional sports nets (RSNs) at issue, because of language in the statute that specified the access rules applied to satellite-delivered networks.

In advance of the OMB sign-off announcement, Cox agreed to start negotiating with AT&T and others in San Diego and AT&T made its own formal request for MSG Networks HD programming in Connecticut. But AT&T was not reluctant to add a sting to the tail. It gave Cablevision and MSG 10 days to begin negotiating before it would ask the FCC to make them. Cablevision issued no comment in response to the AT&T letter.

Also part of the FCC's decision was that operators could not satisfy the access requirement by making standard-definition feeds available, but not HD feeds, as is the case with MSG in Connecticut.

Cablevision has challenged the FCC's program access rules in court, Comcast has not and told legislators at a Hill hearing on the Comcast/NBCU deal that it has no plans to do so.

In written answers to Sen. Al Franken on the issue of access to affiliated nets, Comcast chairman Brian Roberts said that it was ready to make Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia available to DirecTV as soon as the satellite operator made its exclusive Sunday Ticket package avaiable to Comcast and others.

Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia is already available to competing cable operators. RCN has carried the net since its launch in 1997 and Verizon's FiOS since that service launched in Philadelphia, according to Fitzpatrick.

[PhillyPhreak54]

I'm not getting my hopes up because Comcast is holding onto hope that they will get access to Sunday Ticket.

But it would be great to get CSN PHL....

[Rome]

But it would be great to get CSN PHL....

Right - because you can never get enough of Michael Barkann.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Actually I'm longing for the insightful analysis of Mark Kram.

[Seabiscuit36]

thats just Roberts deflecting.  They have no case against DTV, they lost a bidding war fair and square, and cry about it every chance they can.  The fact is the Government cant do ish with the deal, DTV won the ST Package by outbidding Comcast/MSG/ETC, and if the government intercedes it opens a whole can of worms with any dealings where someone outbids competitors. 

[General_Failure]

But it would be great to get CSN PHL....

Right - because you can never get enough of Michael Barkann.

Man can't live on Barkann tennis and dog show coverage alone.

[Seabiscuit36]

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-304134A1.pdf

Comcast/NBC merger approved.  Not entirely sure but the wording in this FCC doc seem to point towards them being required to share CSN Philly. 

[phattymatty]

i just took all my cable equipment back to the comcast office in Northeast DC and it was easily one of the worst two hours of my life. they really do make it as hard as humanly possible to get them out of your life for good.

[PhillyPhreak54]

i just took all my cable equipment back to the comcast office in Northeast DC and it was easily one of the worst two hours of my life. they really do make it as hard as humanly possible to get them out of your life for good.

Yeah, they're fargers. I hated every second of their service.

I fought with them every month.

[lurking wierdo]

I have Fios in central Jersey. It's fantastic except they assign my area to North Jersey. I have no Philly Network channels but I do get CSN. With Comcast. I got New York and Philly. I live on the border between North Jersey and South Jersey. Luckily, almost all the Eagles games were national telecasts this year. We also dont have any Eagles bars around here, so if I have to go out and watch a game its with a bunch of generic fans, mainly Giants, Cowboys, Jets and Steelers.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

i just took all my cable equipment back to the comcast office in Northeast DC and it was easily one of the worst two hours of my life. they really do make it as hard as humanly possible to get them out of your life for good.

Switching to FIOS or DirecTV?

I have Fios in central Jersey. It's fantastic except they assign my area to North Jersey. I have no Philly Network channels but I do get CSN. With Comcast. I got New York and Philly. I live on the border between North Jersey and South Jersey. Luckily, almost all the Eagles games were national telecasts this year. We also dont have any Eagles bars around here, so if I have to go out and watch a game its with a bunch of generic fans, mainly Giants, Cowboys, Jets and Steelers.

No one cares about your problems, fargface.

[Sgt PSN]

lol

[SunMo]

so fios is great for him except he can't follow any of the teams he likes.  makes sense.