Comcast Cable facts
While investigating facts about Comcast Cable, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Comcast sent bills and eventually collection notices to customers that lost their cable, phone, and internet equipment due to Hurricane Ike. The largest reported charge was $1000, but that bill was reduced to $931 to make up for the interruption of her phone service during the storm.
In 2005, the Tri-Cities government decided to start their own internet service. Comcast and SBC fought back with "push polls" asking residents "Should tax money be allowed to provide pornographic movies for residents?" They defeated the referendum and Comcast raised cable rates over 30 percent.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 14 of the best facts about Comcast Cable I managed to collect.
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Comcast has the lowest customer satisfaction level of any company OR GOVERNMENT AGENCY in the United States. Including the IRS. Also, Cable is the only industry to "fail", with a score below 60.
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Comcast and Time Warner Cable have the lowest customer satisfaction of any company in any industry in the U.S. according to the American Customer Satisfaction Survey.
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Comcast and other cable companies hold an oligopoly, meaning they fix prices to get more money
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In 1997, the FCC allowed Comcast (aka Xfinity) to offer tiered Internet service to its customers in exchange for providing free service connections to schools located within 200 feet of Comcast's cable plant.
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An elderly woman smashed her local Comcast office after they botched her cable install, and then suddenly cut off her service
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Hulu is owned three major cable companies (including Comcast) which is the main reason it charges a fee AND still shows advertisements to it's customers. It fits their core model.
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In 2013, Comcast Cable dropped RFD-TV, a network devoted to providing TV programming concerning the American farmers' and ranchers' way of lives, in favor of picking up Al Jazeera America.
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On February 1, 2009, Comcast Cable accidentally aired 37 seconds of porn during Super Bowl XLIII
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In 2005 Comcast sent the cable bill to a female customer with name "Bitch Dog" and another customer "Jeffery Scrotum Bag Barnes"... later they fired two employees involved in the incident
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Comcast became the largest Cable provider by buying AT&T Broadband.
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AT&T, Comcast, and Time Warner Cable use statehouses to curb public Internet service
Comcast CEO raised more than $2.2 million for Barack Obama before he appointed former Cable lobbyist Tom Wheeler to chair the FCC - source
