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Time Warner Cable Raises Rates in Albany, Offers a $99 Promotion Most Can’t Get

Phillip Dampier January 27, 2011 Competition, Consumer News, Verizon 2 Comments

Time Warner Cable customers in the Albany, N.Y. area are complaining about the cable company’s latest rate increase which will cost most bundled customers at least $7 a month more in 2011.

Time Warner blamed the rate increases on investment and upgrades to their facilities and increased programming costs.

The company’s heavily marketed $99 promotion is also coming under fire in the area, because many customers don’t qualify for it.

The Albany Times-Union reports many area residents were invited to call the company “to see how they could lower their bill.”  Time Warner has marketed a one year promotional offer providing the company’s triple-play bundle of phone, Internet and cable-TV service for around $33 for each service, or $99 a month.  But when customers called the company, they were told they don’t qualify for the promotion.

Michael Malachowski, a Delmar resident, learned the hard way that winning a promotional offer from the cable company wasn’t going to be as easy as he thought.

Malachowski currently has a bundle of services with the company and spends around $140 a month.  But he learned he can’t qualify for Time Warner’s $99 offer  — it is available only to new customers or those with a single service.

Other area customers shared similar stories with the newspaper.

One way around the roadblock is to threaten to cancel.

Albany customers are getting some additional powers to negotiate with the imminent arrival of Verizon FiOS TV, coming to Bethlehem, Scotia, and Colonie.  A similar bundle of services from Verizon is a lot cheaper than Time Warner’s $140 a month.  The fiber to the home network offers an online promotion for all three services for $84.99 a month for at least the first year.

Even if FiOS is not an option, Time Warner bends the rules when customers are on the verge of cutting their cord.

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Nate
Nate
13 years ago

I have DISH Network as my service provider and I have anything bundled in at a great rate through Windstream. Being a DISH employee I know that DISH can also offer you HD free for life that I did not get with Time Warner and our customers can get up to three HD receivers for free!

Loons In June!
Loons In June!
13 years ago

@Nate.

Thanks for the commercial, let me know when I can watch the Sabres on Dish.

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