Petition for Video Competition

C4CC yesterday launched a petition to move legislation that will promote competition and we need your help. Click here to sign the petition and spread the word among your friends. The petition simply states:

We urge the Congress to make the passage of franchise reform legislation a top consumer priority this year. Consumers deserve, need and want real choice in video services as soon as possible. At the stunning rate of $260 every second nationwide, American consumers are seeing hard-earned dollars pour out of their pockets for a total of over $8.2 billion in annual savings that consumers are missing. We urge you to reject all unrelated amendments that may bog down the process and to enact legislation NOW that will send a strong signal to consumers that their Congress supports more choice and lower prices for cable and video services.

Thanks for your help keeping up the fight for consumers and real cable competition

Comments

[Dave Anderson]

there is only one cable company here. so i have to go with them and their bad high high speed internet

[Elliott Mitchell]

Here's my question: We learn of the big phone companies' willingness to sell raw calling data to the NSA .

We know that the big phone companies'-sponsored legislation to completely overturn the cable tv and internet business models is on the fast track in congress .

Is there a connection?

[Jeremy Schwach]

I live in Madison, WI and my only choice for cable TV and internet is provided by Charter communications. Because of my living situation, I do not have access to satellite TV and find myself with no other options. I have spent hours on the phone with perhaps the worst customer service I have ever dealt with and my issues are hardly ever resolved. For a free-market economy to truly function, it is important to reign in monopolies and oligopolies to protect the everyday consumer. Please think of the voters and taxpayers when passing legislation.

Thank you.

[Florence Weaver]

We need to be able to choose what channels we want instead of the basic including many channels that we do not care to watch. Please vote to pass franchise reform Rx Cable TV.

[Christophe Grard]

We only have Adelphia to chose from and with the rates the way they are, I have decided to abstain from paying for cable TV.
The way cable service is handled, it's just like communism: You have one choice and one only imposed by I don't even know who.
Comcast is a few miles down the road and
I can't chose. I wouldn't want to have just one brand of car to chose from either, or have one single choice for the telephone service. Why don't we have a choice for cable services?

[Mark Mack]

We need new alternatives! I have comcast internet AND cable, they both suck. First the prices! $105 per month for standard cable and the lowest speed cable internet. That is just gouging. Secondly the service, my modem goes out one night per month and my cable tv snows out one to two days a month! I am a college student, I cannot afford this much longer if the prices go up again!

[Terri]

I have Mediacom for my cable service. There a days when it goes out and we still have to pay for it. They keep increasing the monthly bill and adding more crappy channels that no one would watch anyway. I would like to be able to pick the channels I like and pay for them. At least 75% of the channels I have are worthless. I have considered dish network or direct tv, but I don't want to be locked into a contract.

[Penny]

We have switched to satellite because it is cheaper. Would like to have some competition with cable companies to keep cable prices real.