Are you satisfied with your phone, TV, internet service?

I quit cable many years ago because of the high cost. I still have a landline and Internet service. I have been thinking my landline costs too much and have considered getting rid of it but my charges aren't so bad after reading yours @fuzzybuddy I don't have cable but use streaming services like Netflix and Prime and all the other free stuff they have.

I pay $25.00 for Prime and Netflix together monthly . Then I pay about 87.00 for my landline and Internet combined monthly. I get a lot of good movies and series to binge on. So that's about $ 112.00. I also use a digital antenna to get many local and not so far channels. That cost me nothing. Only paid for the antenna many years ago and it was around $30.00

I've been happy with what I have.
 

I have a Samsung android prepaid cell phone: $50.00/month, ATT, unlimited calling/texts and 12gb internet (which I rarely use, mostly for maps). I go to the local Dollar General, pay the $50 (plus taxes/fees of about $4.00), activate it on the due date and done. I don't like ATT but it is the only provider here with reliable service. Price hasn't changed; I don't think it can since it's prepaid. Take that, ATT!

Elevate unlimited internet with wifi, fiber optic so it's fast and reliable, $54.95/month; price hasn't changed in seven years. No cable and no reason for it; streaming on 'net works for me. No land line. Don't see the point for me.

Total: $110.00/month.
 

MACKTEXAS said:
I dropped the AT&T landline 2 years ago when it reached $130/month. Also dropped their DSL which was another $50/month. Now I have T-Mobile internet, $55, and my cell phone from Verizon, $45. Besides the savings, I used to get up to 20 unwanted solicitors a day on that landline. It's rare to get any at all on my cell.
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I did somewhat the same. I had a landline and a cell phone but gave up cable a long time ago. I soon realized that the landline was getting ninety percent of unwanted calls whereas my cell gave me the option to screen and block unwanted calls. I have such peace now with no landline. I have Verizon for internet, very cheap, and our cell phones are on another plan of my hubs choosing.
 
My internet and cell phone are with Ma Bell. Here in frozen Canada I pay about $100/month Canadian for both. I cut the cable over 25 years ago since I refuse to pay for 7 minutes of being forced to watch silly ads. Yes, I am happy with this situation!
 
Pepper said:
My cable, internet bill also over $300. I tremble when I think of it, it makes me sick, it truly does. My landline with different company. Since I rarely use it, although I prefer people calling me on it as I hear the phone better on landline, the bill is super low, so low I pay it once every other month. But the cable kills me. I'm sad for days. It's so wrong.
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Maybe you could make a pros and cons list for keeping cable. We gave it up years ago, especially when we realized that we were mostly paying for advertising and garbage. I stream my entertainment and we have a large selection of digitally stored movies and TV shows. I don't miss cable at all.
 
Just dropped my landline phone service ... but still use my house phones connected to my cell via a bluetooth device ... XLink BT HD

Now here's the deal with that setup: My cell phone and service is a government phone and costs me nothing. Had it about 3yrs now and phone and service hasn't cost me a penny.

So at the end of the day: Free phone service

Just dropped my cable Internet service in December. While I could simply use my free cell phone and service for Internet access, I chose to have Fiber Internet installed. The installation promotion was first 3mos Free. They don't charge anything for modem and router either. No installation charge, no modem and router monthly rental and 1Gbit Fiber Internet free first 3mos and $59 a month thereafter. The Fiber Internet is twice as fast as the cable Internet was AND Fiber is $20 a month cheaper than cable here.

I don't pay for TV channels or have any subscriptions ... well with the exception of Amazon Prime Video which is part of the Amazon Prime package of benefits. I stream free ROKU channels and Amazon Prime Video on my two TV's.

I'm happy with my setup. Total cost for Phone, Internet and TV ... $59 a month plus the yearly Amazon Prime membership.
 
carouselsilver said:
Maybe you could make a pros and cons list for keeping cable. We gave it up years ago, especially when we realized that we were mostly paying for advertising and garbage. I stream my entertainment and we have a large selection of digitally stored movies and TV shows. I don't miss cable at all.
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I agree.

I went through a brief withdrawal period, mourning the loss of a few programs and finding a few new favorites but it was worth it to me.

Pay TV just didnā€™t offer enough bang for the bucks.
 
Remy said:
My cable, internet and phone bundle is over 200 but not near 300. I have a low tier of channels, expanded basic. I keep the landline because of my stepfather.

I've been pleased with Consumer Cellular for my cell. I have a flip phone with pain in the cough texting. But it works OK for me and I'm not planning to upgrade to a smart phone at this time.
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I can't believe what I'm reading that you guys pay for... as I said I have over 1000 tv chanels.. altho' granted I don't susbscribe to any of the film channels.. ..or Netflix... I have full fast fibre optic broadband.. unlimited calls on my phones etc.. for an absolute fraction of what you guys are paying ..

It's very rare for us over here to have anything cheaper that you.. we're usually very expensive for everything, but this is an astonishing difference..
 
Over decades have not been a fan of dealing with Telecom services from the earliest annoying Comcast era.

This thread reminded me to phone AT&T that I am now on a warm body phone call with. They just dropped my rate from $81 to $70. AT&T has prominent advertising on their site for a $55 monthly cost but after discussing that with the customer service person, she related that rate only applies if one bundles it with other services like TV etc.

A prime example how I loath telecom sales and marketing. Of course, on the AT&T site, as soon as one begins drilling down in their labyrinth on what those plan features mean, the robot does everything except explain such and instead drags one through annoying web pages towards automatically changing to inevitably higher cost plans. The telecoms of course due to less smartphone integration and streaming tv competition are losing customers.
 
hollydolly said:
I can't believe what I'm reading that you guys pay for... as I said I have over 1000 tv chanels.. altho' granted I don't susbscribe to any of the film channels.. ..or Netflix... I have full fast fibre optic broadband.. unlimited calls on my phones etc.. for an absolute fraction of what you guys are paying ..

It's very rare for us over here to have anything cheaper that you.. we're usually very expensive for everything, but this is an astonishing difference..
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Cable is terrible here and I don't know how to cut the cord really, although there is a lot of information out there on how to do so. I'm so un-techy. Consumer Cellular cell phone is reasonable.
 
A lot of people think they have a "land line" when they really have VoIP running on cable Internet. Yes, you can plug in your old phones in most cases but it isn't the same technology at all. Usually when the power goes out, this goes out as well.

They are ripping out the old copper here now, so I was transitioned to VoIP running on a cellular data service with local battery backup built in to cover power outages. Roughly the same cost. I use my old phones, but it isn't a "land line" in any way, shape, or form.

I still use cable Internet because I don't have a viable alternative yet. Two fiber companies are here now though, one just beginning to string fiber. But it isn't cheaper and I don't need higher bandwidth service.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I still have a land line, with cable TV, and internet service, which costs about $300/month. I guess I'm OK with the service, but not the bill.
Are you satisfied with your phone, TV, internet service?
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We have Race Communications super fast fiber optic gigabit service, internet and landline...$93/mo.
Consumer Cellular, 2 cellphones...$87.
Dish Network for TV...$130 down the toilet.

I would dump the landline and Dish Network in a heartbeat, but I keep them to preserve domestic tranquility.
 
We have a Hughes Net Satellite Dish. We have the $65 plan. We run out of fast bandwidth in about 5 days and then we are "throttled". We have about 3 weeks of adequate internet but weather and bust times of day interrupt service. There is no cable services here. There is on both sides of us about 4 miles away on either side but they didn't want to take it by our place and few others. So we are in the twilight zone of getting reliable service. Oh well. We wanted to get away from it all, it seems to have worked out ok. :)
 
I have AT&T for internet and DirecTV (owned by AT&T). I dropped my land line last year and saved $60. I also dropped the premium channels on DirecTV and I now pay about $230 per month. I kept my land line for so long because it was the phone number my alarm monitor calls to let me know if the alarm is going off. For a one-time charge of $60 they installed a device that communicates with my cell phone.

AT&T introduced 5G a couple of years ago, so I'm satisfied. I only keep DirecTV to record the news, late-night shows, crime dramas on ID and Oxygen and HGTV. I also have subscriptions for streaming services and find the best dramas and thrillers are on streaming.
 
Our tv, internet and phone are with 'Cox'....we currently pay $241.00 per month and we're pretty satisfied with the service.

No real increase for about two years but I found out a couple of days ago that it's going up another $100.00 the end of March.....not happy about the increase but we'll end up paying it.
 
Getting ready to dump AT&T internet after my fiber optic line is installed -- in a little more than a week. No overall complaints about AT&T internet (they've been very reliable) except they love to jack up their prices. As it stands now, I can get fiber optic internet (with 5 times the speed) cheaper than I can with AT&T's internet, which is 7 years old now.

Cell only -- no landline -- with Mint mobile. Price is right.

Netflix only, at $17 per month. I absolutely hate regular/sat TV due to the constant commercials.
 
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