LUS fiber customers not only Lafayette residents who will pay more for TV service this year, Cox Communications was raised at Lafayette later this month.
Cox, however, not only increases the cost of video service business increased cost for video, phone and Internet services on January 15. LUS fiber will raise the price just for video service starting February 6.
LUS fiber and officials blame the costs constantly increase Cox programming for elevated levels of video.
“Despite aggressive cost management efforts, programming costs go up dramatically every year and we had to make difficult decisions in order to improve our level,” Patricia Thompson, a spokesman for Cox’s Acadiana market, said Thursday.
Thompson said the increase in telephone rates are about $ 1 per month and will cover the cost of regulation. An increase in the average to Cox’s video customers is between $ 2 and $ 3, and most Internet customers will pay an extra $ 4 less per month. Overall, Thompson said, Lafayette Cox an average customer will pay the increase in total $ 4.93 for all services.