THE SALISBURY CITY COUNCIL WILL ENTERTAIN A VOTE TO CONVENE IN CLOSED SESSION ON MONDAY, MAY 6, 2013 AT 4:30 P.M. TO DISCUSS A CONTRACTURAL MATTER (CABLE TELEVISION FRANCHISE RENEWAL) AS PERMITTED UNDER THE ANNOTATED CODE OF MARYLAND § 10-508(a)(7)(14).
THE SESSION WILL BE HELD IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS (ROOM 301) OF THE GOVERNMENT OFFICE BUILDING (125 N. DIVISION STREET) IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE COUNCIL WORK SESSION, AT WHICH TIME THE PUBLIC CAN OBSERVE THE MOTION, ANY DISCUSSION AND THE VOTE TO CONVENE IN CLOSED SESSION AS NOTED ABOVE.
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Pleeeease don't renew it, so we can invite some options (.e.g., Fios) into the Bury. No one's going to invest a dime into hardware facing a franchise.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't tell me it's for the children.
if this is over comcast, they are horrible to do business with.
ReplyDeleteWhy is this behind closed doors? Simple. If it were open to the public, first, they would have to rent out the whole Civic Center for it, and second, the noise of outrage would drown out the meeting.
ReplyDeleteHow in the hell does this merit a closed meeting. Prediction- This will result in the CITY drastically raising the franchise fee- it's on your cable bill city residents-It's a back-door tax, a I garantee Ireton wants to raise it.
ReplyDeleteWhere there is competition, there are better prices. My parents are paying $80/mo for FiOS, getting about 200 channels, crazy fast Internet speeds, and phone service.
ReplyDeleteTheir price is so good because they have 2 cable providers and FiOS to choose from. Their package seems like the HD Premier package, which is $160/mo here in Salisbury.
If Verizon can sell this for $80/mo, why should we pay Comcast $160 for a similar package?
Comcast has the worse customer service around with the only exception of the Daily Times delivery department.
ReplyDeleteComcast has consistently raised their rates for basic service all the while delivering poor service.
I had to call them 9 times to get my service restored and it took 5 differnet technicians coming to my house to fix. The last technician really did the complete job and fixed the problem but they never gave me credit like they promised for all my outages.
Everyday my televisons go out for serveral minutes then they comback in. I honestly think someone is playing with the switches in the office somewhere because I've had to call so many times.
We need another cable company to offer competition to keep the price more reasonable. I pay more monthly for Comcast (just basic tv service) than I do Verizon. There is something terribly wrong with that.
When you call their customer service department, you never know where you are calling. Most of the time, it isn't even in this country. They offer 2-hour repair times which are generally not kept or are unrealistic given the time of day you are calling. They representatives given phoney names and just give you the brush off. They even hang up on you. The only way to get any service is to march to the main office and throw a fit and demand to speak with a supervisor and then just MAYBE you might get to talk to someone who knows what they are doing.
Most of the technicians I have observed (except for the last one) have been rejects, or jack-legs doing the old hit and run routine around the homeowner. They certainly don't do a quality job and you can count on having to call them back again for repairs.
Salisbury should not be so quick to enter into another prolonged contract with these people. Open up the market place for the customers to decide what company to select.
I got tired of my cable going out all the time also. I changed to directv and verizon dsl. I didn't notice that much of a difference changing from cable to dsl. Every once in a while a video will hang up for a second or two but I don't have the outages I did with cable. Even with all the storms we have had my directv has never gone out for more than a few minutes and even that has been rare. I am not sorry one bit I got rid of cable.
ReplyDeleteCOMCAST SUCKS!!
ReplyDeleteLike I said, this needs to be in public at the Civic Center!
ReplyDeleteLOL!
plus keep raising the rates all the time.
ReplyDeleteContact FTC, that seems to get Comcasts attention. They have had a large number of complaints. Mine being one of them I was told.
ReplyDeletecomcast SUCKS. get rid of ch 14 and the 1 dollar it costs every subscriber. get rid of that every half hour news 5 minutes on hln. (they don't have enough open channels) bring us NASA so we can watch our families efforts brought to fruition. they STUFF ads so they can get more in. wonder if the ones paying realize theirs may be one of the ones cut short... I could go on, but I'm tired. Better NOT grant a rise in cost..after this digital effing we all got. WE HATE THEM!
ReplyDeleteBring us CHOICES & we'll talk.
"contractural" - related to something that has become contracted
ReplyDelete"contractual" - related to a contract
Who is writing this stuff?
And, oh yeah, Comcast sucks.
STILL think your "representatives" represent you? A CLOSED meeting and vote? On a PUBLIC matter (it ain't the CIA)? Sounds to me like the bribes have been paid and the "representatives" don't want the public to see them on their knees kissing -no, LICKING is the better term -- the ass of another big corporate entity at the expense of the people who sent them to office to "represent" them. Your "leaders" are just like wolves, fighting over the last bits of meat left on the carcasses of the people. And looking up from the meal every now and then with a big toothy grin, hoping there is a bone or two they missed....keep cheering...
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