I love my antenna and the free TV I snag out of the air. That was why I told Comcast to take a hike a few years. Roughly 400,000 DirecTV satellite and 250,000 DirecTV Now customers cut the cord in the last three months of 2018.Īs with Comcast, which is also bleeding TV subscribers, it's likely people are fed up with the vicious cycle of yo-yo billing. Perhaps AT&T was ready to deal after it lost 658,000 pay-TV subscribers in the the fourth quarter, as reported by Bloomberg. He is paying AT&T $85 a month for internet, but is now considering switching to Comcast Xfinity to get a cheaper, introductory rate for internet like I did. Ron's now paying just $42 a month for service that includes the NFL Sunday ticket, which normally costs about $300 extra a year. Ron then climbed up on the roof and installed an old-fashioned antenna.īut wait! DirecTV called a few days later and offered him a new deal that was even better than his original 24-month contract. His no-contract month-to-month bill (including the NFL Sunday ticket) progressively went from $194 to $255 to an eye-popping $323 by the end of the year.Īfter calling each month and getting the runaround, he finally canceled in January. My colleague, business writer Ron Hurtibise, had an AT&T DirecTV promotional package bundled with internet that expired in October. You can always create a sidecar or simply use a standalone cash acceptor which even provides cash recycling all in one easy to service unit.Once promotional rates expire, consumers are pretty much screwed.Ĭable companies aren't the only ones monkeying with service prices. New models like the Evoke Creative released last week by default have no option for cash, at least internally. Cash in city and state bill pay is still very much alive and well. That only exists in the supermarket checkout. None of the above units dispensed change. Seeing a check reader was eye-opening as well. Opinion: Cash in retail is getting harder and harder to find. That deal had a big effect on a lot of other deals
My guess is these connect to the internal Verizon network albeit thru multiple layers of security (Sophos/etc).It isn’t grade AAA quality on the finish.Speculating the enclosure is purchased from multiple fabricators.
Here was first encounter with skew factor on check reading.Current generation is Windfall kiosk from KIOSK.The IDTech units used to drive me crazy.Started out with one vendor doing software then graduated to doing their own.Next are comments, recollections and trivia Picture of current generation Comcast kiosk Proving the point that sometimes it’s as simple as just addressing the audience.įirst we have Pictures – click for full size Its worth noting that in the case of Xfinity, the current iteration is really not that different from the original. Something like Comcast, just up to 2013, there were almost 10 different configuration that had been deployed over various cycles and years.
On that storyline the USB controllers would be next and the Elo modded them, and the subsequent modding by KIS to them. Dell loved selling a ton of 17 and 19 inch displays to KIS. Trivia: for a long time KIS bought touchscreen overlays (with controller) from Elotouch and then would overlay them on a Dell 19 inch that had the bezel removed. Along with the kiosk manufacturers (primarily Kiosk Information Systems) a relevant company in these was Dell OEM group. See what has changed and what hasn’t (if anything). Having worked on prior generations of all of these multi-generational kiosks we decided to check out the latest iterations. AT&T Bill Payment Kiosks and Others Circa 2021Įditors Note: This article is updated with new information weekly, sometimes daily.
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