Comcasts basic cable prices up the most among providers
Explore More Time Warner Cable was the only major pay-TV company to reduce the price of basic cable TV over the past four years, a new report out Monday has found.
The New York cable company reduced the advertised price of TV service by 2.5 percent between 2009 and 2013, according to Free Press, a group aimed at changing media and technology policy.
Meanwhile, Comcast, which moved in April to buy TWC for $45 billion, raised its advertised basic TV rates by 68 percent over the same period, according to the Washington, DC, group, which is part of a campaign to torpedo the mega-deal.
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