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Lionel Mandrake

(4,143 posts)
Wed Aug 4, 2021, 01:32 PM Aug 2021

Frontier, Spectrum, or DirecTV? [View all]

They're all bad, but which is worst?

Frontier took over Verizon's customers in California, including CaliforniaPeggy and me. We have Frontier fiber to the house, which brings us bundled TV, telephone, and internet service.

Frontier TV service sucks. This year Frontier dropped Turner Classic Movies (TCM) from our tier. To get TCM back we would have to switch to the "ultimate" tier, which includes many channels we're not interested in and costs an additional $100 or so per month. Frontier also dropped the music channels this year; nobody who subscribes to Frontier can get them any longer.

I'm thinking of switching TV service from Frontier to either Spectrum or DirecTV, if either of them offers everything we used to get from Frontier at a reasonable price. But which of them is worse?

DirecTV lost many customers after being acquired by AT&T in 2015, presumably because of lousy service. Now that DirecTV has been spun off, has the service improved?

Spectrum used to be Time Warner. We had lousy service fro Time Warner in the 1990s. Is it any better now?

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