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<div dir="ltr">Have used WOW for years. Largely satisfied because
when there develops a problem, they are usually willing to
negotiate some, sometimes agreeing to a lower price. Price
reduction usually lasts a year then then suggest I just call in
again. I am 66 so can argue that Social Security gave me a 17
dollar raise per month and WOW raised my monthly bill by 15
dollars. They still raised the bill but gave me a one year
discount of ten dollars per month.
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<div>I have my own modem and they said I could use my own, but I
would have to bring back their modem and when there is an
outage, they can check on my system from their offices and
could not do that without their modem. Not sure if that is
horse manure or a valid concept. So I keep paying the 5.00
dollars extra per month. </div>
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<div>WOW has had almost no outages. </div>
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<div>My mother however has a whopping cable bill because she
lives in a small town and only has ONE cable option.
Competition does help. I negotiated for her with Time Warner
Cable and they would not even budge on making a better deal
for her. At least with choice you can threaten to go
elsewhere. Too bad I cannot put up an outside antenna to get
my local digital channels but in a condo that is forbidden.
And then there is the need for Internet. Surely there has to
be a better way someday?</div>
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<div>If you still are paying "modem rental fee's" I
would check out getting your own hardware. I
haven't checked lately but in the past I have
purchased my own "modems" from Micro Center for
about $20.00. I have always picked up the factory
refurbs (plain brown box with sticker) they always
have. The most recent was a D-Link DSL modem for
15.00. After 3 or 4 months it was paid for, not to
mention performance was better then the ancient
hardware Century Link was charging me for. </div>
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