{"id":17291,"date":"2019-02-06T13:14:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T18:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=17291"},"modified":"2019-02-06T13:14:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T18:14:26","slug":"charter-raises-sneaky-broadcast-tv-fee-for-second-time-in-four-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/charter-raises-sneaky-broadcast-tv-fee-for-second-time-in-four-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Charter raises sneaky \u201cbroadcast TV\u201d fee for second time in four months"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Comcast does this shit too. THIS is why monopolies are supposed to be illegal. Another fraud they use is the “HD Technology Fee”, with which they add $10 to their advertised monthly charges of your HD bundle. My $149 package for example, somehow costs $211 each month with fees, charges and taxes.
\nThis bullshit makes me glad 5G will mean no more cable company monopoly hell. It can’t happen soon enough (and, no I don’t mean that fake 5G-e that AT&T is pretending isn’t just 4G with a new name).<\/p>\n

The Article ‘Charter raises sneaky \u201cbroadcast TV\u201d fee for second time in four months’ originally appeared on https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1452103<\/a>
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Comcast does this shit too. THIS is why monopolies are supposed to be illegal. Another fraud they use is the “HD Technology Fee”, with which they add $10 to their advertised monthly charges of your HD bundle. My $149 package for example, somehow costs $211 each month with fees, charges and taxes. This bullshit makes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[582,586,590,589,565,587,588,585,591,456],"tags":[593,597,596,96,598,594,595,592,523,33],"class_list":["post-17291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-editorial-2","category-imho","category-imo","category-jamiegray","category-moregray","category-myopinion","category-opinion-3","category-sharedlink","category-jamie-gray","tag-editorial","tag-imho-blogger","tag-imo","tag-jamiegray","tag-link","tag-moregray","tag-myopinion","tag-opinion","tag-blog","tag-jamie-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17119,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/slow-arctic-freeze-raises-risk-of-polar-bear-extinction-say-scientists\/","url_meta":{"origin":17291,"position":0},"title":"Slow Arctic freeze raises risk of polar bear extinction, say scientists","date":"November 24, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Things are not looking good for our semi-frozen friends. 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