WSJ: Cable Ads Again Accentuate the Negative

It's nice to see the competitive spirit alive and well. Customers should be better off with increasing competition for their business.

Possible results for consumers

• Lower prices
• Better service
• More services offered
• Better value
• Customized offers
  

Read the story in the Wall Street Journal.

Time, DirecTV, Verizon
Raise Rhetoric, Barbs;
Time to 'Blame-Storm'

By VISHESH KUMAR
April 28, 2008; Page B6

The battle for TV customers is getting personal.

A few funny blurbs from the article.

• "blame-storming"
• direct, hard-hitting facts
• "Empty Cable Suit,"
• rapidly deteriorating landline business

What are your thoughts?

INFLATIONARY PRESSURES

Cable TV Price Inflation

People are concerned about rising prices. Food, fuel and cable TV. Food and fuel are relatively new in the inflation game. Cable TV prices have been outpacing inflation for what seems like forever. You will find a New York Times article here about cable price inflation from nearly 20 years ago.

Several years ago it was reported here that "The average cable bill rose 5.6 percent in 2005 — to $43.04."

Question #1

At what price would you cancel your pay TV service [$50, $100, $200, $400 per month]?


Question #2:

How long can the price of a product or service increase before revenue decreases by either substitution or ending use of the product or service?