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Please allow me a place to describe my complete dissatisfaction about the cable company Flow on removing the computer oriented channel G4 from the basic package.
It seems that Flow’s marketing department is making wrong decisions and expecting us customers to pay extra for channels that we have grown accustomed to on the basic cable package.
I have even heard rumors that more channels will get sliced from the basic package. My concerns are that the educational channels like G4, Discovery, The Learning Channel, History and National Geographic should not be removed from the basic package.
The fact that Flow removed G4 shows that this company does not want to promote education and knowledge instead they want to deprive people and make them pay extra. As we all know G4 is the only computer oriented channel on cable and lots of people rely on it for vital information about computers; I myself being such a person.
I must say lots of people are calling Flow and expressing their dissatisfaction on this issue, and I am sure if Flow does not hear the calls of their customers, lots of them will disconnect cable and take Direct TV.
In my opinion this is a negative move by Flow and it shows that the company is not pushing the nation towards knowledge and advancement instead they are doing all in their power to destroy the learning process and knowledge shared by these channels.
krisram
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Wow. The person who wrote this is full of shit. If they rely on G4 for COMPUTER knowledge, they are badly off. They should learn about something called the internet. What’s educational about G4?
With that said – thanks a lot Flow, for yanking a station away from us, and not even warning or giving people a chance to pay for it so as not to lose it.
As for movie channels, you’re SUPPOSED to pay extra for it. The cable company before stole their signals!
Bboy G4 has more than just computer knowledge, there are other very good lineups on that channel. Beside that is not the point. The point is that the cable channel would now begin to steal the other channels from our basic package one by one and we will have to continue paying $210.00 monthly anyway. So YOU are full of shit.
Yeah, we’re missing out on the education value of Cops, Ninja Warrior and Heroes.
I agree about the channel, I’m just saying they look retarded saying they are missing out on”vital information about computers” – you can get videos of people being kicked in the nuts anytime.
Come on Flow get your act together. Who asked for the Africa Channel? I know you want to have an all round coverage but when you pull channels and put s&*it in place of it. Basically every channel people look at they have to pay for in a package. A TIP for the Marketing people and for customers out there, I want NO BASIC s^&it package and I just want to be able to pay for the packages I want, I know you want to make your money but I think the money you make from the local ADs on the cable stations should be able to subsidise the cost to the consumers, after all thats the reason for advertising fees. Quite frankly we dont care for local ads on the cable channels or even local channels buying the so called broadcasting rights and blocking the cable channel. If thats the case I want a refund everytime a channel is blocked. AND what about the quality I mean I know you are in the process of upgrading your infrastructure but can I at least watch a movie on MAX without it sticking so much.
Once more people IF ALL of us dont buy the cable or disconnect it the Cable company is going to fix their s&*it in order and offer something alot better. Dont let them use their power to offer something we dont want they have to offer something WE want.
Hey there,
I can see how you would dislike the move to change the channel line up, but if your cable system is going digital, they will most likely provide those channels on the digital line up. You will have to rent or purchase a digital box in order to get those missing channels, but it will be better in the long run.
Take care.
OOOOkay Bryce I see you did alot of research there buddy.
We know digital cable is going to be good for us, and we know we need a digital box to receive those channels. BUT we already have the digital box and FLOW in their ads had G4 (the channel in question) listed in their basic now its not available so they playing games with us you catch the drift???? They giving us something we dont want. We would at least like to have a basic package with something to watch and not have to pay for every single channel we watch in some package. If this is the case, I suggested that we simply not pay for a basic and ONLY pay for the packages we want. IF this is not an option ……….disconnection.
If all of us agree and do this then the cable company may offer something we REALLY DO WANT.
Take Care.
this is just an update about flow cut on the basic cable package,up to this day flow has not returned g4 back to the basic package,i can only think they are not going to listen to the customers,i am recommending direct tv from now on, i already called direct tv and told them that they can use the negative response of flow as a positive marketing campaign against flow,flow is not a customer caring company they have become swell headed and don’t care,all cable customers should disconnect and get direct tv
This company is just here to rent space , for a while this company is nothing better than the rest of servise company we have in trinidad and tobago , I think they should all pack up and leave , and leave it up to some international company to run this country , we the ppl of trinidad and tobago have to endure shit for to long .
Once again, we have another monopolised industry that can do whatever they want with the service they provide without having to yield to customer dis-satisfaction.
There were quite a few programs I looked foward to looking at from some of those channels that were cut.
We need to liberalize the cable industry as well. Bring in a foreign competitor so that FLOW would get its act together. Just like what they did with the cell phone market.
For now, I’m switching to DirecTV
“Their service” not “the service”. Excuse me for the typo