Bell TV: Price increase again?

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Thanks. Perhaps I will review OTA over other "pay" providers. It seems that this site has a good OTA community. Reading the forum, it seems to me like tv is going full circle... back to the antenna. Poor Bell.

There are a few reasons I've kept the Bell starter package

(1) There are some channels that the kids watch on Bell that is not OTA
(2) We like the PVR function. We rarely watch live tv anymore.
(3) I don't want OTA snowy pictures, ghosting, colour wash, etc... But with ATSC that may not be an issue anymore. We don't have an HDTV set. I'm not sure if that makes a difference.

The basic is $32+$3 (fee). So my price above was wrong. I've kept it because I don't know if we will keep Bell. I don't want to make any drastic changes yet if we feel Bell is still right for us. In the meantime, the money we save by downgrading helps a liitle with the other kids' stuff.

Sorry Bell.
 
all Bell is, is money hungry!
you would think with the price increase, they would give back to the consumer. IE: new program guide
but alas, typical Bell!
 
well wtf last month i over paid by 30 bucks so i had a 30 dollar credit. my bill normally is 134 a month after tax. i look online at my current balance and it says i owe 159 wtf:confused:
 
Mine's going up $5 .. which puts me at $90/mth .. in which case, I might as well switch to a new package and get some more channels I don't currently have for the same price!.. I'll review it more in January when the price increase comes into effect.

I currently have 6 themes, movies, hd value pack, digital standard (missing A&E HD .. haven't bothered to call and find out why)
 
I guess I have just become used to price increases, so an additional few dollars a month, every few years doesn't seem to faze me...

That doesn't seem too impressive...
I suspect you have had other "beefs" with Bell, as you seem quite upset over an increase that amounts to less than $50 a year.
 
How old is your package? could just be hitting all the people with old packages to bring them inline. They like to do that or get you to upgrade to a newer pricing structure.
 
the difference in your bill (30+25), sounds like a PPV event price.

i'd look in more detail on your bill before you complain, just to be sure..


Nem, who thinks it's all about the details
 
I checked my account online and wanted to lower my programming package to offset the new fee (not newfee). They have me and anyone else with a similar package hooped. I currently subscribe to the Digital standard + 5 themes and HD. If I cut back on the number of themes my bill goes up. (what to do)
 
Sure, I have beefs with Bell, just like probably everyone. When was the last time Bell raised the rates on your basic home service ?? I can't even remember when mine went up (not counting their separate LD hookup 'Fees'), yet for some reason the increases on their satellite and cellular services keep coming fast and furious. At some point their customers are going leave and their market share start dwindling.

I consider $10.00/month discount from my ISP impressive, considering Bell offers none (unless you start bundling). What is not impressive is a monthly increase of $4.00 when their is no explanation of why.
 
I noticed this on my ebill the other day as well, although mine says it's going to be a $4 increase. My current sub is 5 themes+HD. I'll have to phone them and find out what's going on. These increases are getting a bit ridiculous. The Digital Standard has gone up from $25->$31 along with the $3 digital fee they brought in and this has just been in the last couple of years, tack on another $4 and Shaw is starting to look a lot more tempting.
 
Found this
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2008/11/24/tech-bell.html?ref=rss&loomia_si=t0:a16:g12:r5:c0.0781135:b19837987

Might shed some light
CMack
 
Too bad they are going to lease at least half of the transponders to DishNetwork. How does this help BTV subscribers? At 72.7 degrees, it will be touch and go if it will help people in the west.
 
What happened to those predictions that as soon as the signal is secured we are going to see a price drop (or was it "no more price hikes"). Am I missing something?
Or is this simply a (smart?) business decision by Bell to preempt the switch in droves from pirates to legal subscribers and fill up Teachers' coffers...? ;)

BTV owners' next step will probably be a reduction in workforce and in a year or two when economic outlook improves Bell is going to be taken public again.
For twice the price.

Last time I remember this was done with Seagate. Very efficiently.
"Increasing shareholder value" is never associated with offering deals to customers...
 
I am one of those getting a $5 increase, making it more than a 15% increase for me in less than 3 years (from $78 to $90, pre-tax) for an unchanged programming package. (Yes, Bell added a few new channels to that package and also removed a few, none of which were of interest to me.) Over that same period, HD video quality has gone downhill and I now often have to endure audio stuttering. Thus, more money for poorer service.

Still, the competition have their own problems which keep me from switching, so instead I'm going to reduce my Bell programming package to offset the price increases. In particular, I'm thinking of dropping the $10 HD Value Pack, since the only channels in that pack that I really care about are the U.S. network HD channels (PBS,ABC,CBS,NBC,FOX), and I see that those will now be included in Digital Standard.

The brochure containing the 2009 pricing is unclear about timeshifting versions of the U.S. networks' HD channels. The U.S. networks' SD channels are marked with a little symbol that leads to a footnote explaining that the timeshifting (i.e., other coast) versions of those channels cost $1 extra. However, the corresponding HD channels are not marked with the same little symbol. Does this mean:
  • other-coast versions of the U.S. networks' HD channels are no longer available at all under the new pricing?
  • other-coast versions of the U.S. networks' HD channels are available only when paying the $1 extra for U.S. timeshifting?
  • other-coast versions of the U.S. networks' HD channels are always available as part of Digital Standard, even without the $1 extra?
I am hoping someone here already knows the answer, so that I might avoid the torment of a phone call to the Bell CSRs.
 
Who ever said that? Come on, a price drop? Really, that would never happen with any company. Anyone who thinks there would be a drop in price needs to think again.
 
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