---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bruce Kushnick <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:30 AM Subject: Time Warner Cable's Advertised $89.99 Triple Play: Now $190.77. What the F@$#X$!? To: *And See Ars Technica: * *http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/10/90-time-warner-cable-bill-becomes-19... <http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/10/90-time-warner-cable-bill-becomes-190-after-two-years/>* ================= * Time Warner Cable's Advertised $89.99 Triple Play: Now $190.77. What the F@$$##X$$$!!???* *http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/time-warner-cables-advert_b_600... <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/time-warner-cables-advert_b_6009364.html>* *From: **"The Book of Broken Promises: $400 Billion Broadband Scandal & Free the Net" <http://newnetworks.com/bookofbrokenpromises.htm> * This is my October 2014 Time Warner "Triple Play" bill. When I signed up, less than two years ago, it was advertised at $89.99 and today, less than two years later, the actual price is 110% more -- now $190.77.* Click for Full Size <http://newnetworks.com/timewarnermarkup2014.htm>*. http://newnetworks.com/timewarnermarkup2014.htm [image: 2014-10-19-timewarnersmall.png] <http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2014-10-19-timewarnersmall.png> Fact is -- you can never, ever get the advertised price because it doesn't include many of the fixed costs, like the set top box, not to mention it is littered with pass-throughs of the company's taxes and fees, including the cable franchise fees. To add insult to injury, there are a bunch of garbage, made up charges, and let us not forget the increases on all services -- the 'Internet modem' fee went up 140%. Not to mention I was overcharged as the Universal Service Fund calculation is wrong by $.07 -- not in my favor. I know most of you reading this 'feel my pain'. *Why Are We Putting Up with This?* *How Do They Abuse Thee? Let Me Count the Ways: * *To read the rest of this article: * http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/time-warner-cables-advert_b_600... ------------------------------ <http://www.avast.com/> This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com/> protection is active. -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/