All Services Are Negotiable

Saturday, August 19, 2006

And Another Thing About Cable Companies...

If your cable company is anything like mine, they don't give a rip. So...

Refuse to pay installation fees:

If you live in an apartment building that's wired for cable, it's no skin off the cable company's nose to simply turn on your jack.

Take advantage of the company's lackadaisical attitude:

At one time, a friend and I, living in separate buildings, each had the basic cable television package, sans Internet access. Being technical guys, we hooked our cable modems up to our respective cable jacks anyway, and to our surprise, found a legitimate cable Internet signal coming through our pipes.

Being honest folk, we called the cable company to report that our service had not been set to exclude the cable Internet signal. Their response was that to do so would pollute their network, and it was worth more to them to leave our service unfiltered and our accounts uncharged than to actually provide us the service that we subscribed to.

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