It appears that just about all the big pay-TV services will be raising prices this year. As reported in the Boston Globe, Comcast, Verizon, Dish Network and DirecTV all have price increases planned.
Comcast’s prices are reported to be going up around 4 percent while Verizon plans a 12 percent increase, by far the largest increase among all the players in this report. Verizon does report, however, that prices are locked in for two years after sign-up so current customers should not be affected by the increase.
Of the two satellite TV giants, DirecTV has the slightly larger increase planned at 4 percent while Dish Network reports that their increase will be around 3 percent.
Dish Network has plans to freeze prices for some of their most popular programming packages including the DishDVR Advantage package but I have seen some conflicting information regarding exactly which packages will be included in the freeze and the duration of the freeze.
Dish Network, to their credit, seems to be the only ones talking about freezing prices for some programming packages while increasing the price for some others.
