# Time Warner to begin charging monthly fees to use their modems **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 16, 2012, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-warner-to-begin-charging-monthly-fees-to-use-their-modems/265241 "2012-10-16T09:57:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 109
**Author:** ![KrazyKid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/krazykid/32/6371_2.png) [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 6:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-warner-to-begin-charging-monthly-fees-to-use-their-modems/265241/109 "2012-11-16T06:11:14Z")
> [@Jeep Build... final lift pics](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jeep-build-final-lift-pics/50223/18): > > Youre talking like cable service fees fall under the same rules as rent control in NYC. So your saying if you get time warner cable in 2000, dont change anything, NOTHING can be increased in price if you still have it in 2040? Theyde be out of business. > > **They aren’ forcing it on you, your obsession with tv just makes it seem that way…you can easily cancel cable…see thats a choice.** If every year for 40 years when they called back and you said “Yes I would like another year at $133 for TV Internet and phone” and they say ok great you are locked in, thank you for the biz. Yeah the price wouldn’t increase, BUT like the part of the agreement I quoted says, if the taxes and regulatory charges THEY ENSUE, can be passed on to the customer. So, if my bill is set in stone at $133 in 2000 at a NYS tax rate of 8% my total due is $143.65. If in 2040 they raise the tax rate to 12% my total due is $148.96. Get it? Thats the point of buy in, locked rates, and “contracts”. They bank that you will A cancel early and they make money on said fees, B pay your bill every day for that term, and C FORGET to re-up when the term ends and they jack the bill to the “normal” rate making a touch more hoping you dont notice because its probably auto-paying and its been the same for 12 months so you forget to even look for it. Times millions of customers, penny’s add up man. Once again, finish your rebuttal with the only thing you have left to cling to. “Mehhhhhhhh if you dont like it look away” My obsession with tv :rofl you know me so well. In fact I canceled my cable and phone from them 2 months ago, after being sick of paying $166 a month for a phone that we never use, and TV that I spend 30 minutes watching a week, IF that. Such a giant waste of money we pissed away in the last few years. We have RR standard, pay like $40 something a month and $10 a mo for hulu through a media center pc I built a while back if the wife wants to watch tv. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-warner-to-begin-charging-monthly-fees-to-use-their-modems/265241)._