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Tankerbot · 06-20-2009, 11:56 PM

I live in a small town. Levelland, Texas.

As such I get NO other competitive cable then Charter Communications. They don't have HD either. Mostly due to crappy infrestructure. They don't even carry HD locals. Just their digital cable service which is just SD digitial, not HD.

But hey, at least I'm not stuck with Comcast. Seems this company has a lot of customer horror stories... :P

So anyone claiming that there is competitive cable companies in all municipalities is pure hogwash. Also, not all of us have the money to chose a "decent" place to live. I was pretty much forced to live in the nearest town due to my parents running up on unpayable eletric bill with both competing electric companies in Lubbock. So to say that if we cared enough about what cable service we want that we would have to move to maybe Amerillio or Dallas, would be impossible. Since moving cost money too!

Not all of us have any "choice" where we want to live you know.

Would you spend a couple thousand dollors more in gas money/U-Haul rental to go to a more distant city just to find better Cable service? Try and see what's wrong with that picture! Pretty much all small towns withen a hundred miles of Levellend (other then good ol Lubbock) have pretty much one, count them, ONE cable service. That is it! No competition.

Luckily all you city slickers don't have to worry and have a buffet of cable companies to chose from!

But for me it's not all bad news. Pretty soon, a telephone company called "NTS Communications" is rolling out their "Fiber2User" service. Which is similer to FiOS. Heck it may be the same thing....

I pretty much know that my parents will get it when it becomes available as it is supposed to offer phone, really fast internet, AND digital TV service. Not sure what NTS contracts with in the TV department though....

We currently don't have any Cable subscription. We either watch over the air HD (though only I am watching it in HD as the living room TV is a crappy SD CRT that is only 20' inches , I feel sorry for them, they don't know what their missing :P) or use the Internet to fill the gap. So cable TV isn't exactly a necessity...

06-20-2009, 11:56 PM	#52
Tankerbot Interdimisional Spy Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Levelland TX Age: 22 Posts: 94	I live in a small town. Levelland, Texas. As such I get NO other competitive cable then Charter Communications. They don't have HD either. Mostly due to crappy infrestructure. They don't even carry HD locals. Just their digital cable service which is just SD digitial, not HD. But hey, at least I'm not stuck with Comcast. Seems this company has a lot of customer horror stories... :P So anyone claiming that there is competitive cable companies in all municipalities is pure hogwash. Also, not all of us have the money to chose a "decent" place to live. I was pretty much forced to live in the nearest town due to my parents running up on unpayable eletric bill with both competing electric companies in Lubbock. So to say that if we cared enough about what cable service we want that we would have to move to maybe Amerillio or Dallas, would be impossible. Since moving cost money too! Not all of us have any "choice" where we want to live you know. Would you spend a couple thousand dollors more in gas money/U-Haul rental to go to a more distant city just to find better Cable service? Try and see what's wrong with that picture! Pretty much all small towns withen a hundred miles of Levellend (other then good ol Lubbock) have pretty much one, count them, ONE cable service. That is it! No competition. Luckily all you city slickers don't have to worry and have a buffet of cable companies to chose from! But for me it's not all bad news. Pretty soon, a telephone company called "NTS Communications" is rolling out their "Fiber2User" service. Which is similer to FiOS. Heck it may be the same thing.... I pretty much know that my parents will get it when it becomes available as it is supposed to offer phone, really fast internet, AND digital TV service. Not sure what NTS contracts with in the TV department though.... We currently don't have any Cable subscription. We either watch over the air HD (though only I am watching it in HD as the living room TV is a crappy SD CRT that is only 20' inches , I feel sorry for them, they don't know what their missing :P) or use the Internet to fill the gap. So cable TV isn't exactly a necessity... Last edited by Tankerbot; 06-21-2009 at 12:05 AM.