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> Hmm, your forgetting that Time Warner Cable was recently purchased by Charter and that the Time Warner Cable brand will be going away for good. (replaced by
by chimeracoder 10y ago
> Hmm, your forgetting that Time Warner Cable was recently purchased by Charter and that the Time Warner Cable brand will be going away for good. (replaced by charter)
No, it's being replaced by Spectrum (which is a brand Charter already owned).
I can confirm this firsthand - when my service went out last week, I called the same number I have stored in my contacts[0], and the automated greeting introduced itself with both the old and new name.
[0] The fact that I have TWC's support number in my contacts should tell you exactly what I think of their service
- brightball 10y agoCongratulations then. Charter is by far the best cable company I've ever dealt with.
- jonwachob91 10y agoI was gonna make a snarky comment about how you should move to Central Florida so you could experience Bright House Networks, then I remembered Charter bought them earlier this year...
- jdmichal 10y agoI've been seriously worried about what will happen to Bright House. I've talked to every tech that's come to my house the past year [0], and they all say that Charter has been very open about how Bright House does things, so I'm keeping hope... I know techs are not always the most knowledgeable about business direction. But I figure if four people all individually say the same thing, there might be something to it. [0] I've had quite a few, thanks to cutting through my line while gardening, and a lightning strike through the cable lines.
- JshWright 10y agoRight, so it's not exactly "trying to rebrand itself". It's getting rolled in to an existing brand as the result of a merger.
- jdmichal 10y agoCopying my post from another subthread: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12763833 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12763833) I agree that "rebranding" is a seriously uncharitable interpretation of the circumstances. Charter also bought Bright House at the same time as Time Warner Cable. They are all being brought under the Spectrum name, which was and is Charter's pre-existing name for their cable services. This is not the scenario at all that "rebranding" invokes. Especially not in the context that chimeracoder uses it. See ssharp's post [0] for an example of what the typical interpretation would be. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12762492 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12762492