I'm fine with my internet, can't complain. However, holy shit my cable company blows dick. I mean, they will remove the MOST WATCHED channels to replace it with silly LA channels that have awful shows and are in spanish. I'm bi-lingual, but that isn't the point. We pay for television, and they keep removing everything we watch, and I think it might be because they are doing some fishy business or find the LA channels cheaper. My friend also says G4 stopped working for him (My dad wouldn't get that even if I asked.) and its been 2 years since they promised to look into it, and to no avail.

Also, we used to have Cinemax and now we have Encore? What is this shit?


Needless to say, I stopped watching TV except maybe to watch the news and some odd shows now and again.

Lets see... Well MTS billed both my phone and internet seperately, and theres two types of people you might get on the phone: Actual good employees who gets things done, and asshole procrastinators. I deal alot with the latter, don't like how phoning them is a gamble. And they keep sending me god damned flyers, theres so many at one time that my mailbox wouldn't open.

The T.V. switches channels to the new/default channel everytime a channel is added/removed but all in all it's pretty good but it's the only services you can get in rural areas of Manitoba, if you want cable your outta luck.

Back in the days when I had Juno Internet (an affiliate NetZero), I canceled my account, and then they billed me for a whole year in advanced for service which was around the range of 120 bucks if memory serves me right.

The only story I have like this is that at the last house I lived at we started off with a Rogers plan but then, a few months later, we switched to Bell for our internet as we were really close to the DSL Centre (our speeds were pretty fast).  The bills were under my name and used my credit card so my roommates would give me their share of the bill each month, etc, etc.

A year later I moved to the house I'm at now.  I cancelled the Bell service because my roommates said they were going to look into setting something new up to hopefully get a deal.

The next month I check my credit card to make sure an online purchase went through alright and see that there's a charge from Bell for the exact amount of a month's worth of internet.  I call Bell and it turns out that my old roommates had set up an account with Bell (from the same address as they hadn't moved) and Bell automatically used my credit card for their bill because it was still on file from my old one.  Bell did all this without permission from myself or my old roommates.

Anyways, I call up Bell and ask them what the hell and they say that because the bill isn't in my name they can't take my credit card off of it unless I do a whole bunch of paperwork and fax it in.  I didn't trust them so I had one of my old roommates from the place (who's actually a great guy) chew their heads off for a while until they took the card off.

Good times.

Huh. I thought Bell went out of business? Maybe that was just in the US.

Yeah, similar problem. Turned out all of our roommates were dicks though, so when we moved away they mooched offa our card for three months. Not only did our roommates make it as hard as possible to switch the bill over to them, but Time Warner decided to bill us after they failed to process the paperwork the first time (took a month).

Oh boy, a thread where I get to do the thing I excel most at, complaining!

Well, let's see here...

My first experience with a cable tier provider was not a very pleasant one, looking back on it overall.
 
I remember numerous instances where the service (Road Runner) would cut itself off. I would call the customer service, do the typical trouble shooting steps and then a technician would come to my home several days later... Of course; for whatever reason - the service would restore itself conveniently before the tech arrived; and then cut itself off a day or two after he left. This process would repeat itself around twelve times during the summer months. I was fed the same nonsense over and over again "Hot Aerial". I was told that the summer heat screwed up... something.

SO after being fed up with losing service randomly during the summer time, I switch to Verizon Fios; a service that had recently come to my area (at the time). I schedule an appointment, I prep everything and I wait... and I wait... and I wait and I want. Four hours after the window in which they were supposed to come, a couple of guys ring the door bell.

They survey the area to figure out where they are going to run the cables and all that sort of thing; when they plead with me that "they've had a long day, and they are already several hours over; can we leave and come first thing tomorrow morning?"

Seemed reasonable enough; I agree and I let them go. In preparation for their early visit; I wake up extra early on my only day off for that week and wait for them... Nothing.

SO I call the office up; and I'm told "no such arrangement is on the record". So; I was essentially forced to wait an extra week.

The week passed; the technician came (two hours late) and finally installed my new service. Fun. I especially like the part where I was bullshitted by a couple of douche bag technicians.