How Cable Theft Affects You

1. The quality of your picture, as well as your neighbors, can be affected when an individual makes an unauthorized connection to a cable line in your area.
   
2. Road Runner Broadband Speeds can be affected when theft of broadband occurs or if an individual makes an unauthorized connection to a cable line in your area.
   
3. It raises your cable bill!
   Here's how:
   1. TWC employs a team to audit parts of the system each day to detect cable theft and signal leakage caused by unauthorized connections. Poor system performance requires increased customer service calls; maintenance calls place a burden on the system to deliver a great product and put pressures on cable rates for our subscribers.
      
   2. The cable industry has spent over $65 Billion since 1999 to upgrade its infrastructure to enable customers to receive high quality services such as Digital TV, Video on Demand, Road Runner and VoIP. When people steal services without paying for them, costs associated with running an operation trickle down to subscribers.
      
4. Time Warner Cable pays franchise fees to operate in your area. Those payments go directly into your local community and can be used for parks, schools or additional police or firemen. When people steal cable services, no franchise fees are paid on those services.
   
5. Signal leakage can affect aviation radio equipment as well as emergency service radio communications.
   
6. Theft of services affects honest and hardworking cable employees as well as those employed by programmers. The cable industry, as well as businesses providing services to the industry, account for over 300,000 jobs. Each of these employees provides a valuable service to the cable industry and works hard so our subscribers receive quality services. 
    

If you are accidentally receiving cable services and are not currently a Time Warner Cable subscriber, contact us (no questions asked) to sign up today and start enjoying the services we have to offer.