English: building entrance at 4200 Paramount Parkway in . (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Steve Mensing, Editor
♦While city hall continues to confabulate preposterous hokum about the Fibrant debacle turning the corner with a “profit”, Time Warner Cable and AT&T U-verse roll out ever faster internet speeds, the ability to watch TV on tablets, smart phones, and an array of internet enabled devices. Fibrant lacks this important TV app ability. Both TWC and AT&T U-verse offer price busting money saving deals along with no contracts and the ability to renegotiate existing contracts with retention specialists. Fibrant still struggles with periodic outages and now claims they have only 3 Fibrant employees. Seriously. Their undermanned staff, being commanded by a general manager running his own telecom in distant states, also does double duty in the city changing traffic lights. Perhaps that might explain why they are slow to answer the phones or keep up with their scheduled appointments.
Time Warner Cable and AT&T Speeding up in 2014
Time Warner Cable already rolled out 100 Mbps in several of its markets this year–boosting their Ultimate 50 Mbps to 100 Mbps. Throughout 2014 Time Warner Cable will be boosting their Ultimate 50 Mbps to 100 Mbps at no additional cost. The exact date for their 2014 rollout of 100 Mbps in the Charlotte region (includes Salisbury) is not yet set. AT&T U-verse is providing 45 Mbps in the Charlotte region. These speeds are far and above what the average internet consumer requires.
Time Warner Cable, AT&T U-verse, DirecTV, and Dish Offering TV Aps for Internet Enabled Devices
In Salisbury, as well as Rowan County, all the major TV incumbents are offering TV aps for internet enabled devices. You can watch hundreds of TV channels on your smart phones, laptops, Apples, PCs, and tablets. Also these providers are ever improving their DVRs. Such is life for deep pocketed and smartly run free enterprise privates guided by the profit motive. They don’t exist by covertly dipping into municipal enterprise funds and gouging their water and sewer customers with higher bills and “stormwater” fees. Before long our noble legislature will terminate that practice and quite possibly turn municipal water and sewer systems over to the counties. That would be a great day for Salisbury residents and the outlying Rowan municipalities who suffered from Salisbury raiding their SKU funds at will.
