Re:No competition = higher prices in the future (Score 1)

you'd be surprised by how many cable techs can't put on proper f connectors, so it's not really so crazy to think that you're service tech will look there first, and then the problem goes away, at least for a while, but they're only there for an hour, so to them it looks like it's fixed. if you get a different tech to your house everytime you have a problem, it's not likely the problem will ever get fixed, most techs are trained to go about finding a problem the same way, because most of them were never trained with any real technical skill, they were just told how to do installs, and sent on there way, so don't blame your service tech, we're way too overworked, and there just isn't time to look at everything... p.s. i do more than replace connectors, cable service tech(not for comcast however, they do suck, my company isn't so much better, but our techs are better trained, at least around here)