{"id":161,"date":"2003-08-01T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2018-08-03T10:38:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:38:37","slug":"161","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/01\/161\/","title":{"rendered":"Time For Your Haircut, Little Sheepies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charter Communications <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/stories.nsf\/Business\/15B5BC2A86682F2A86256D750014DC70?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Charter+might+charge+more+for+high-speed+Net+service\" target=\"new\">announced<\/a> on its investor conference call that it&#8217;s going to raise the rates for its Charter Pipeline cable modem offering because it can.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> story says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Charter Communications Inc. is considering raising the price for its high-speed Internet service and eliminating its slowest-speed service to &#8220;extract more revenue&#8221; from its markets, Chief Executive Carl E. Vogel told analysts Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;High-speed data has been a wonderful business for us,&#8221; Vogel said.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the most profitable product as well as the one requiring the least capital expense for Charter to deploy. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, little lambs, Charter needs a new pair of woolen socks, so give it up.  It&#8217;s not passing on increases in its costs.  It&#8217;s just extracting revenue from you.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Noggle household happily continues to pass on any Charter offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charter Communications announced on its investor conference call that it&#8217;s going to raise the rates for its Charter Pipeline cable modem offering because it can. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch story says: Charter Communications Inc. is considering raising the price for its high-speed Internet service and eliminating its slowest-speed service to &#8220;extract more revenue&#8221; from its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21642,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/21642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}