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Comcast customer satisfaction drops 6% after TV price hikes, ACSI says

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Comcast’s customer satisfaction score for subscription TV service fell 6 percent in a new survey, putting the company near the bottom of rankings published by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI).

Comcast’s score fell from 62 to 58 on ACSI’s 100-point scale, a drop of more than 6 percent between 2016 and 2017. The ACSI’s 2017 report on telecommunications released this week attributed the decrease to “price hikes for Xfinity (Comcast) subscriptions.”

Satisfaction with pay-TV providers dropped industry-wide, tying the segment with Internet service (a product offered by the same companies) for last place in the ACSI’s rankings. The ACSI summarized the trend as follows:

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Pirate Bay hit by malvertising attack, drops Cerber ransomware

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Pirate Bay hit by malvertising attack, drops Cerber ransomware

A malvertising campaign recently struck popular torrent site The Pirate Bay and redirected users to landing pages for the Magnitude exploit kit, where they were infected with the notorious Cerber ransomware.

David Bisson reports.

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Bernie Sanders drops lawsuit against DNC after data breach – CBS News

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Bernie Sanders drops lawsuit against DNC after data breach
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AMC drops ‘texting friendly’ theaters idea faster than a box-office flop

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That didn’t take long.

In an interview published only two days ago by Variety, the head of AMC Entertainment, Adam Aron, suggested that making his company’s theaters more “texting friendly” would be just the ticket to attract more moviegoers, particularly younger ones.

As anyone other than Aron should have expected, reaction to the idea was almost universally negative.

And so this morning, while many media outlets were just getting around to reporting on Aron’s texting trial balloon, AMC stuck a pin in it via Twitter: “NO TEXTING AT AMC. Won’t happen. You spoke. We listened. Quickly, that idea has been sent to the cutting room floor.”

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Network World Paul McNamara