SkyCable Obit

Ten years ago, I wrote about "500 channel" cable. Stupid me. I was optimistic then, for the real is far, far from what we got. SkyCable Baguio, instead of adding its channels, is decreasing them one by one. They took out ESPN. We hemmed and hawed and won. Or so we thought. The ESPN they gave us is the Taiwan edition where they show endless snooker events LAST YEAR. They took out the better Japanese channels maybe because those were illegal. So we have to presume that those four Indian channels weren't and so were the Quiboloys and six other religious channels. Ow! They have an interactive channel where parents get to see how their children set their trysts. AND the rate kept on getting more expensive. To make it look like they have more channels, they repeat their useless channels. Then they add an interesting channel to justify increase in rate. Ten years ago, they wanted to gobble up the small cable stations. We're glad they didn't make it. Thank god for competition. Yes, we will be switching.