FCC Withdraws Proposal to Ban Apartments & HOAs from Forcing People to Pay for Cable TV & Internet cordcuttersnews.com/fcc-withdraws-proposal-to-ban-apartments-hoas-from-forcing-people-to-pay-for-cable-tv-internet/ Amazon Slashes Prime Video Budget For Original Content, Prioritizing Profitability and Live Sports From Places like The NFL cordcuttersnews.com/amazon-slashes-prime-video-budget-for-original-contnet-prioritizing-profitability-and-live-sports-from-places-like-the-nfl/ 150 Local PBS Stations Are Now Streaming Free & Ad-Free on Amazon Prime Video cordcuttersnews.com/150-local-pbs-stations-are-now-streaming-free-ad-free-on-amazon-prime-video/ Verizon Slashes AutoPay Discount By 50%, Here’s How to Receive the Full $10 Discount cordcuttersnews.com/verizon-slashes-autopay-discount-by-50-heres-how-to-recieve-the-full-10-discount/ Lionsgate Moves Closer to Splitting Starz Off Into Its Own Company cordcuttersnews.com/lionsgate-moves-closer-to-splitting-starz-off-into-its-own-company/ Disney Dominates Streaming in December 2024 Outperforming UA-cam For Total TV Usage cordcuttersnews.com/disney-dominates-streaming-in-december-2024-outperforming-youtube-for-total-tv-usage/ Spectrum Cuts Over 250 Customer Service Jobs At One Of Its Call Centers cordcuttersnews.com/spectrum-cuts-over-250-customer-service-jobs-at-one-of-its-call-centers/
Back in the day apartments and condos has rooftop antennas for OTA reception. Cable companies came in and offered to rewire buildings to provide internet and cable for nominal amounts. As recently as early in the century my Comcast bill was under $25 a month for television and internet. Times change and with todays inflated prices of TV and internet HOAs need to revisit this arrangement and seriously reconsider dusting off those old OTA antennas.
My old apartment installed internet and forced us to pay for it whether we already had internet on our own or not. No opting out. I was already in a service plan for my internet so I had to pay for two internet services. It was outrageous.
Those lot stuck you with a new fee that you never agreed to, you should have stuck them with a vacated apartment to release. They broke the lease and gave you a free out!
Developers and local governments like HOAs, and despite homebuyer complaints, buyers are tolerating the terms of HOA homes. Try finding a non-HOA home in a tight housing market, there may not be any to choose from. (I'm not a fan, btw, just devils advocate)
I would never ever live in a place that I had to pay an HOA fee for. I believe that's what rent and taxes and all that other stuff is for. And those are going sky high the HOA fees. Those are ridiculous
one problem I have had was my cable went out and the cable company said contact your apartment management because they were only responsible to running the cable to the complex but the apartment management was responsible for maintaining the connection
Same, & I'm glad I inherited my grandparents home in a nice small older neighborhood in a small somewhat rural town that does not play that mess. The only thing we have are fines from the town if you let your place turn into a total pig pin enough for others to complain about it, or it's a health hazard to the community, otherwise you do you, & that's the way it should be!!
I had forgotten I was forced to pay for cable while living in an apartment, it was my start on hating ComCRAP Cable and their horrible service and support.
I live in an apartment complex. I don't have to pay an HOA fee. Thank God. We have our own maintenance but the people that they hire to do the lawn maintenance are horrible. The trash pickup that's on them. It is what it is. A lot of the people here are slobs they don't management. Staff is never here so they don't care. Thank God I'm not one
There is no way that's going to hold up in court on appeal. You can't force someone to use a certain company plus making a single company into a monopoly.
Wanna bet. You live in a nation that makes you pay taxes on money you've already been taxed on. The government isn't going to ever side with the common man. It's only to profit those with significant collateral and money.
Comcast has somehow locked out any competition in our township for the past 25+ years. It’s always been Comcast or nothing if you wanted cable service, so I guess they can actually force you to use one company.
@@dlewis9760 Yep these people choose to live in HOAs, and apartments with all these terms, sign the legal binding contracts, then want to complain without ever having read the fine details of the contract they signed up for, so to me it's like someone knowing taking a job as a sewer inspector, and then complaining about how gross it is!! 🤦♂
@@dlewis9760 There is a thing in contract law that says if the two parties to the contract don't have equal power in it, it is not a fair contract. They have you over the barrelhead, they say either you take the Internet and cable or you dont get the apartment. Restrictions are one thing, but forcing ppl to pay for something outside the complex itself is another. If you are in an HOA where homeowners pay for garbage pickup, they cannot force you to take some trash hauling service. Originally these internet had cable deals were done bc basically you had no choice, and you were getting it pretty cheaply by doing that. These days when there is competition, including 5g internet and streaming, and you have to pay exorbitant internet and tv from the cable company when you could get it cheaper ( or not at all), it is highway robbery. Not to mention that the HOA likely is getting a nice kickback.
I left Spectrum last year because of customer service and prices. They closed down three of there stores in my area. The closest store is 75 miles away.. The call center in my area also closed. I decided to switch to T Mobile Home Internet for my WFH jobs. But, I do see more Spectrum techs out in the field.
I also shouldn't have to pay for other language stations. Make those also an added charge. Between those and sports channels we don't use 20 of our channels, but are locked in to paying for them.
Haven't watched tv in 13 years. I don't need cable, just internet for gaming. Making me pay more money to include a service I don't use anymore is robbery, HOA forced or not.
I understand that some people in a HOA do not want Internet or Cable but the bulk pricing for those that do can be pretty good. My ex lives in a small HOA complex with twenty households. Comcast came into the neighborhood in late 2023 and they signed a group two year deal for Internet and Cable which per household is way less than what I pay for just Comcast Internet to my house. There was no installation costs either. So she gets the same 1Gb Internet speed (free combo modem/Wifi 6 router) plus level 2 Cable and still pays over $40 less per month than me. She is very happy with the deal and there was only a few households that voted against the deal.
People who are upset about the FCC and apartments cable issue should be VERY upset that the various level of government forces us to pay for TRILLIONS every year for services that we don't need, want or agree with. It's a lot easier to pick and apartment that doesn't charge for cable than it is to avoid the government charging you much more than the apartment would
My realtor does not force you to have cable but they do block anyone other than Comcast to lay lines into their properties.Also,no satellites or external antennas.they cannot block wireless or antennas in your window,though.
My apartment complex doesn't require us to pay for Cable TV & Internet. Thankfully. We have had Xfinity cable internet and it was overpriced and not that great. We have T-Mobile Home Internet now and it is less costly and better service.
Luke - your information about the Verizon auto-pay discount reduction is incorrect. Legacy FiOS plans that are no longer being sold are having the auto-pay discount reduced, however, the same tiers (300 meg, 500 meg and 1 gig) are offered in the currently available "myPlan" version of these fiber plans and those are NOT having the auto-pay reduced. I have one of the older non-myPlan versions of the 300 meg tier and received a notice on my bill. I was able to go online and choose the newer plan (same price at least in my case), but the auto-pay goes back to $10. There is NO requirement that the only way to continue to get the $10 auto-pay discount is to switch to 5G home internet. Hope that helps!
Why would the FCC have anything to say about CABLE TV and internet providers, let alone particular contracts with HOAs or colleges? Y'all got to negotiate that noise on your own. Rattle some cages and kick down some doors if you're that upset about the extra and unavoidable charge. The squeaky wheel does still get the grease, ya know. Feh! One of the few reasons I still have Prime is because of their original series (The Boys, Invincible, Reacher). If they were foolish enough to shell out half a BILLION dollars for the rights to the dregs of Tolkien's work, that's on them! Sports is not the end-all, be-all of TV, broadcast, cable OR streaming. FOOTBALL may be, or rather NFL (let's see how the next USXWTFL season goes!), but are there THAT many imports in America to make soccer coverage profitable? I severely doubt that.
The reasoning when I hear of something offered by Amazon Prime as being *free* is puzzling, as a person not a paid subscriber to Amazon Prime cannot access the content. Wouldn't it be more truthful if it was stated that something being offered by Amazon Prime is restricted to those individuals already paying into the service. In the case of the PBS stations being offered by Amazon, a small sliver of the paid Amazon Prime subscription fee is providing the means for the PBS stations streaming on Amazon.
Yeah, I'm not signing up for Amazon Prime (I don't buy much off of Amazon) just to watch a 'free' program, or have to pay an additional fee to watch something else. If you remember the Godzilla Minus One movie from late 2023, Amazon has exclusive USA rights to that and the only way you can watch it is through Prime with an additional fee. No DVD/Blu-ray has been released yet in the USA.
So, if you are forced to pay for an internet service, as part of an HOA or rent, what happens if aomeone, regularly, uses an, "obscene" amount of data? Do they cut that residence off, even though they are forced to pay for the service?
I bet you believe everyone mooches toilet paper in the bathroom at the gym. And on a hot sunny day everybody mooches the free water at restaurants too😂
Appreciate the detailed breakdown! Could you help me with something unrelated: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (mistake turkey blossom warfare blade until bachelor fall squeeze today flee guitar). What's the best way to send them to Binance?
As I recall Luke saying, this is par for the Amazon course. They announce changes way in advance of the changes occurring. And the free content isn't actually going away, as they will establish a free viewing tier within Amazon Prime Video when FreeVee itself is ended. Or so they say! 😉
OMG, its great to see you back, I remember when you first started this channel, how awkward you were at presenting your information, it was very nice and we all knew you just needed more time be to comfortable with camera. When those other people slowly fazed you out, I resented that and I stopped watching this channel!
No one forces you to live in these places. But, if you do, you signed up for this. These are not the government. The BBC is being forced on you by the gov., unless you completely cut the cord. The municipalities with HOAs and apartment complexes in their jurisdictions don't care nor have any control over this.
I understand the reasoning behind it. Can't say I like it, but I understand it. HOAs especially more so than renters. HOAs you all have a vote. You know the way these operations function. You have 4 options, 1. Never join one, 2. leave one, 3 vote your ideas into office, 4 take them to court. As a group which you decided to belong to, you wanted this.
The way to stop apartments and HOA’s from forcing people to pay for services they don’t want. DON’T live they!! If their apartments are empty and their houses remain unsold the practice will stop.
nobody makes you buy a home in a neighborhood with an HOA. Nobody makes you sign a lease in an apartment complex that forces you to participate in their entertainment COOP. They will force you to do what you agree to.
For how much sports is almost every day on ABC NBC Fox CBS ESPN Fox sports , we don't need to pay for network channels and RSN local channels! Who has time to watch every day, after a day of work , 2-3 hours of sports? 2-3 streaming apps and Hulu live tv or UA-cam tv or sling tv is enough! If pass 150$- 200$ to pay on streaming, cable, internet that's a waste if money!
FCC Withdraws Proposal to Ban Apartments & HOAs from Forcing People to Pay for Cable TV & Internet cordcuttersnews.com/fcc-withdraws-proposal-to-ban-apartments-hoas-from-forcing-people-to-pay-for-cable-tv-internet/
Amazon Slashes Prime Video Budget For Original Content, Prioritizing Profitability and Live Sports From Places like The NFL cordcuttersnews.com/amazon-slashes-prime-video-budget-for-original-contnet-prioritizing-profitability-and-live-sports-from-places-like-the-nfl/
150 Local PBS Stations Are Now Streaming Free & Ad-Free on Amazon Prime Video cordcuttersnews.com/150-local-pbs-stations-are-now-streaming-free-ad-free-on-amazon-prime-video/
Verizon Slashes AutoPay Discount By 50%, Here’s How to Receive the Full $10 Discount cordcuttersnews.com/verizon-slashes-autopay-discount-by-50-heres-how-to-recieve-the-full-10-discount/
Lionsgate Moves Closer to Splitting Starz Off Into Its Own Company cordcuttersnews.com/lionsgate-moves-closer-to-splitting-starz-off-into-its-own-company/
Disney Dominates Streaming in December 2024 Outperforming UA-cam For Total TV Usage cordcuttersnews.com/disney-dominates-streaming-in-december-2024-outperforming-youtube-for-total-tv-usage/
Spectrum Cuts Over 250 Customer Service Jobs At One Of Its Call Centers cordcuttersnews.com/spectrum-cuts-over-250-customer-service-jobs-at-one-of-its-call-centers/
I wonder how much money the cable provides contributed to the new President's recent campaign? And his inauguration? Enough, I guess.
Back in the day apartments and condos has rooftop antennas for OTA reception. Cable companies came in and offered to rewire buildings to provide internet and cable for nominal amounts. As recently as early in the century my Comcast bill was under $25 a month for television and internet. Times change and with todays inflated prices of TV and internet HOAs need to revisit this arrangement and seriously reconsider dusting off those old OTA antennas.
Some call it bundling while others would call it hogtying.
My old apartment installed internet and forced us to pay for it whether we already had internet on our own or not. No opting out. I was already in a service plan for my internet so I had to pay for two internet services. It was outrageous.
Those lot stuck you with a new fee that you never agreed to, you should have stuck them with a vacated apartment to release. They broke the lease and gave you a free out!
HOAs need to be outlawed. Why people pay to have HOA to tell them what to do WITH THEIR OWN PROPERTY puzzles me.
Developers and local governments like HOAs, and despite homebuyer complaints, buyers are tolerating the terms of HOA homes. Try finding a non-HOA home in a tight housing market, there may not be any to choose from.
(I'm not a fan, btw, just devils advocate)
@@Athoniteit's a tough choice to be sure. Yeah, you can find a place easier but at what cost?
To keep the property values up.
There are plenty of non hoa houses.... @@Athonite
I would never ever live in a place that I had to pay an HOA fee for. I believe that's what rent and taxes and all that other stuff is for. And those are going sky high the HOA fees. Those are ridiculous
one problem I have had was my cable went out and the cable company said contact your apartment management because they were only responsible to running the cable to the complex but the apartment management was responsible for maintaining the connection
yet another reason why I would never ever have an HOA
Same, & I'm glad I inherited my grandparents home in a nice small older neighborhood in a small somewhat rural town that does not play that mess. The only thing we have are fines from the town if you let your place turn into a total pig pin enough for others to complain about it, or it's a health hazard to the community, otherwise you do you, & that's the way it should be!!
I had forgotten I was forced to pay for cable while living in an apartment, it was my start on hating ComCRAP Cable and their horrible service and support.
Reason # 6721 not to buy a home in an HOA managed community.
I live in an apartment complex. I don't have to pay an HOA fee. Thank God. We have our own maintenance but the people that they hire to do the lawn maintenance are horrible. The trash pickup that's on them. It is what it is. A lot of the people here are slobs they don't management. Staff is never here so they don't care. Thank God I'm not one
There is no way that's going to hold up in court on appeal. You can't force someone to use a certain company plus making a single company into a monopoly.
Wanna bet. You live in a nation that makes you pay taxes on money you've already been taxed on. The government isn't going to ever side with the common man. It's only to profit those with significant collateral and money.
You signed a contract to do so. Maybe you should have read up on what you signed was all about.
Comcast has somehow locked out any competition in our township for the past 25+ years. It’s always been Comcast or nothing if you wanted cable service, so I guess they can actually force you to use one company.
@@dlewis9760 Yep these people choose to live in HOAs, and apartments with all these terms, sign the legal binding contracts, then want to complain without ever having read the fine details of the contract they signed up for, so to me it's like someone knowing taking a job as a sewer inspector, and then complaining about how gross it is!! 🤦♂
@@dlewis9760
There is a thing in contract law that says if the two parties to the contract don't have equal power in it, it is not a fair contract. They have you over the barrelhead, they say either you take the Internet and cable or you dont get the apartment. Restrictions are one thing, but forcing ppl to pay for something outside the complex itself is another. If you are in an HOA where homeowners pay for garbage pickup, they cannot force you to take some trash hauling service.
Originally these internet had cable deals were done bc basically you had no choice, and you were getting it pretty cheaply by doing that. These days when there is competition, including 5g internet and streaming, and you have to pay exorbitant internet and tv from the cable company when you could get it cheaper ( or not at all), it is highway robbery. Not to mention that the HOA likely is getting a nice kickback.
I left Spectrum last year because of customer service and prices. They closed down three of there stores in my area. The closest store is 75 miles away.. The call center in my area also closed. I decided to switch to T Mobile Home Internet for my WFH jobs. But, I do see more Spectrum techs out in the field.
Not everyone likes sports. Make sports an add on for more money. Stop raising prices for those not interested in sports.
Amen! I'm with you 💯
Agree...been saying that for months on this channel.....LOL
I also shouldn't have to pay for other language stations. Make those also an added charge. Between those and sports channels we don't use 20 of our channels, but are locked in to paying for them.
But how will the sports heads have you subsidize their habit?
They have that. Philo TV. No sports channels. It's also why there's no NBC, ABC, Fox, ABC - because they all broadcast sports. $28 a month.
I solve the problem by avoiding HOAs and apartments. For multiple reasons.
Haven't watched tv in 13 years. I don't need cable, just internet for gaming. Making me pay more money to include a service I don't use anymore is robbery, HOA forced or not.
It is not robbery, it is a benefit of membership! 😂
Thank you
They don't force us here but they don't give us any choices either.
Now now, apartments and HOAs CAN force cord-cutters to return to the likes of Cox and Comcast!
I understand that some people in a HOA do not want Internet or Cable but the bulk pricing for those that do can be pretty good.
My ex lives in a small HOA complex with twenty households. Comcast came into the neighborhood in late 2023 and they signed a group two year deal for Internet and Cable which per household is way less than what I pay for just Comcast Internet to my house. There was no installation costs either.
So she gets the same 1Gb Internet speed (free combo modem/Wifi 6 router) plus level 2 Cable and still pays over $40 less per month than me. She is very happy with the deal and there was only a few households that voted against the deal.
People who are upset about the FCC and apartments cable issue should be VERY upset that the various level of government forces us to pay for TRILLIONS every year for services that we don't need, want or agree with. It's a lot easier to pick and apartment that doesn't charge for cable than it is to avoid the government charging you much more than the apartment would
My realtor does not force you to have cable but they do block anyone other than Comcast to lay lines into their properties.Also,no satellites or external antennas.they cannot block wireless or antennas in your window,though.
Same here. There’s no competition against CrapCast allowed in my township, it’s them or nothing.
My apartment complex doesn't require us to pay for Cable TV & Internet. Thankfully. We have had Xfinity cable internet and it was overpriced and not that great. We have T-Mobile Home Internet now and it is less costly and better service.
I have zero interest in sports
want a medal?
@@t2k777 can it be a trophy?
I live in HOA Complex and i do not have Cable anymore i do have internet but by choice not by being forced
Luke - your information about the Verizon auto-pay discount reduction is incorrect. Legacy FiOS plans that are no longer being sold are having the auto-pay discount reduced, however, the same tiers (300 meg, 500 meg and 1 gig) are offered in the currently available "myPlan" version of these fiber plans and those are NOT having the auto-pay reduced. I have one of the older non-myPlan versions of the 300 meg tier and received a notice on my bill. I was able to go online and choose the newer plan (same price at least in my case), but the auto-pay goes back to $10. There is NO requirement that the only way to continue to get the $10 auto-pay discount is to switch to 5G home internet. Hope that helps!
Why the abrupt change on the part of the FCC? You seem to have glossed over that bit.
Why would the FCC have anything to say about CABLE TV and internet providers, let alone particular contracts with HOAs or colleges? Y'all got to negotiate that noise on your own. Rattle some cages and kick down some doors if you're that upset about the extra and unavoidable charge. The squeaky wheel does still get the grease, ya know.
Feh! One of the few reasons I still have Prime is because of their original series (The Boys, Invincible, Reacher). If they were foolish enough to shell out half a BILLION dollars for the rights to the dregs of Tolkien's work, that's on them! Sports is not the end-all, be-all of TV, broadcast, cable OR streaming. FOOTBALL may be, or rather NFL (let's see how the next USXWTFL season goes!), but are there THAT many imports in America to make soccer coverage profitable? I severely doubt that.
This completely flies in the face of choice.
I have Amazon Prime but rarely use their video product. I wish they would separate the two products.
The reasoning when I hear of something offered by Amazon Prime as being *free* is puzzling, as a person not a paid subscriber to Amazon Prime cannot access the content.
Wouldn't it be more truthful if it was stated that something being offered by Amazon Prime is restricted to those individuals already paying into the service. In the case of the PBS stations being offered by Amazon, a small sliver of the paid Amazon Prime subscription fee is providing the means for the PBS stations streaming on Amazon.
It's ad supported now. It should be free to anyone. These ad supported subscriptions need to stop.
Yeah, I'm not signing up for Amazon Prime (I don't buy much off of Amazon) just to watch a 'free' program, or have to pay an additional fee to watch something else. If you remember the Godzilla Minus One movie from late 2023, Amazon has exclusive USA rights to that and the only way you can watch it is through Prime with an additional fee. No DVD/Blu-ray has been released yet in the USA.
FCC can't do what the courts say they can't. That's the best route for those who are opposed to unfair charges.
It costs money to sue on court.
The US has a 1000x more lawyers than we need. Surely one of the a$$holes would take this case to make a name for himself
So, if you are forced to pay for an internet service, as part of an HOA or rent, what happens if aomeone, regularly, uses an, "obscene" amount of data? Do they cut that residence off, even though they are forced to pay for the service?
I bet you believe everyone mooches toilet paper in the bathroom at the gym. And on a hot sunny day everybody mooches the free water at restaurants too😂
AI Chat irritates me
Appreciate the detailed breakdown! Could you help me with something unrelated: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (mistake turkey blossom warfare blade until bachelor fall squeeze today flee guitar). What's the best way to send them to Binance?
Do we trust Amazon announcements though? It's been months since we heard Freevee was going away, thankfully it's still around.
As I recall Luke saying, this is par for the Amazon course. They announce changes way in advance of the changes occurring. And the free content isn't actually going away, as they will establish a free viewing tier within Amazon Prime Video when FreeVee itself is ended. Or so they say! 😉
Tubi or not Tubi?
Rings of power was poorly conceived, These companies need to hire competent writers.
I really enjoyed the piece of information and please start UA-cam advertisements
I’m a sports fan, but wish it was not on streaming services
If they give me a better price than the one I am already paying
OMG, its great to see you back, I remember when you first started this channel, how awkward you were at presenting your information, it was very nice and we all knew you just needed more time be to comfortable with camera. When those other people slowly fazed you out, I resented that and I stopped watching this channel!
HOA's suck, no other way to say it.
I have no issues with mine. They don't act like Karen's at all. I also lived in one in TX and had no issues with that one either. Do you live in one?
Forced to pay for cable tv is unAmerican!The British however have these related rules for having to pay for BBC!
This existed for years in apartment complexes and gated retirement communities, it was just hidden in the rent
No one forces you to live in these places. But, if you do, you signed up for this. These are not the government. The BBC is being forced on you by the gov., unless you completely cut the cord. The municipalities with HOAs and apartment complexes in their jurisdictions don't care nor have any control over this.
I understand the reasoning behind it. Can't say I like it, but I understand it. HOAs especially more so than renters.
HOAs you all have a vote. You know the way these operations function. You have 4 options, 1. Never join one, 2. leave one, 3 vote your ideas into office, 4 take them to court. As a group which you decided to belong to, you wanted this.
Luke what happened to your old tv screen background? Are you still on vacation or traveling?
The way to stop apartments and HOA’s from forcing people to pay for services they don’t want. DON’T live they!! If their apartments are empty and their houses remain unsold the practice will stop.
nobody makes you buy a home in a neighborhood with an HOA. Nobody makes you sign a lease in an apartment complex that forces you to participate in their entertainment COOP. They will force you to do what you agree to.
Prime should have weekly baseball
I'm sure conservatives will be fine with "being forced to do something..."
Welcome to Trumps FCC
HOA rules are there to keep your property values high.
Not all of them are bad.
Do you have to wear a face mask at Disney World again 2025
You might want to because of the outbreak of TB.
For how much sports is almost every day on ABC NBC Fox CBS ESPN Fox sports , we don't need to pay for network channels and RSN local channels! Who has time to watch every day, after a day of work , 2-3 hours of sports? 2-3 streaming apps and Hulu live tv or UA-cam tv or sling tv is enough! If pass 150$- 200$ to pay on streaming, cable, internet that's a waste if money!
Thank you