Are You Happy With Your TV/WiFi/Cell Phone/Home Phone Charges?

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Lon

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I Have a package with AT&T that includes all the above and it runs me about$250 per month irrespective of how much I use either phone.
With Netflix and Amazon Prime I don't need or want HBO and different movie channels. I occasionally will do A Pay for View if their is a fight or other event that I wish to see live. I paid $70 to watch a fight last month and had two of my neighbors pay me $30 each to see the fight on my large flat screen TV. I supplied some wine & snacks.
 

We use Comcast/Xfinity and have their "triple play" with internet, phone and cable. Runs about $227/month including HBO and Showtime. Thinking of dropping land line. Going to try to set up my own modem to save $10/month. We do have Netflix too.
 
Lon said:
I Have a package with AT&T that includes all the above and it runs me about$250 per month irrespective of how much I use either phone.
With Netflix and Amazon Prime I don't need or want HBO and different movie channels. I occasionally will do A Pay for View if their is a fight or other event that I wish to see live. I paid $70 to watch a fight last month and had two of my neighbors pay me $30 each to see the fight on my large flat screen TV. I supplied some wine & snacks.
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Wow, that's terrible!! I thought mine was high at 136.00 a month for tv essential cable, phone and internet. I complained to them and they told me my bill will be going up to 250.00 in September, that's when I'm going to downgrade my tv to basic cable. I cannot afford to pay 250.00 a month. My SSI check is 733.00 a month!!
 

Bobw235 said:
We use Comcast/Xfinity and have their "triple play" with internet, phone and cable. Runs about $227/month including HBO and Showtime. Thinking of dropping land line. Going to try to set up my own modem to save $10/month. We do have Netflix too.[/QUOT

I had Comcast and dumped them last year despite them having the fastest Internet/WiFi. I had too many irritable problems with their billing and service
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I have Comcast for TV and Internet -- runs around $30+ a month (a little more + if I rent a movie for $2.99 maybe once a month).

$45 a month for my Straight Talk cell phone, unlimited everything and great coverage. I haven't hit a dead zone since I quit riding. I don't understand why anyone would want a billable cell phone with hidden fees added on.

I am happy with all three -- TV, Internet, and phone.
 
We have TV...250 channels, phone and internet with Windstream...the TV is contracted by DishNetwork....$170 a month. I have a basic TracFone that we only use when we are away from the house....$7 a month. Our local electric Co-op is in the process of putting fiber optics into our area, and I have signed up for their bundle...250 TV channels, unlimited phone, and 50 MB internet (download) for $135 a month....they are working about 2 miles up the road, so it shouldn't be long till they get to us.
 
We have Charter for internet ($60), Directv Extra for TV, ($98), and Verizon for my smartphone and tablet ($65) Consumer Cellular for hubby's phone, ($20). That totals $243! I had no idea it was that much. Thanks for this thread.

Now that ATT has bought out Directv, I supposed I'll be hounded to switch phones and internet. If they give me a good enough deal, maybe I will???
 
Don M. said:
Our local electric Co-op is in the process of putting fiber optics into our area, and I have signed up for their bundle...250 TV channels, unlimited phone, and 50 MB internet (download) for $135 a month....they are working about 2 miles up the road, so it shouldn't be long till they get to us.
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We have a company installing fiber-optics. I've been on the list nearly 2 years. When I call every few months all they say, is "we'll be getting to you soon." Gotta love progress! I'm satisfied with Charter and have no contract so am happy with that.
 
In my area the only choice for a cable type service is Sky satellite. We quit them years ago, mainly because we don't like giving a penny to someone like Rupert Murdoch.

So we have Netlix, Amazon Prime, and we get Hulu through my sister's account in the US (because hubby is a geek). We do have a landline and broadband/wifi through BT. In the UK you have to pay a licence fee for owning a tv which goes to support the BBC - about £130 a year.

Our mobile phones are through Vodafone and we both have data packages.
 
I seems to me that service providers don't care about people in rural Scotland. Unless we get a satellite link, we're stuck with BT for landline phone and internet. (costs about £30 - about $45 / month) The 'broadband' is about as fast as a dead snail, but as I said, nobody cares about rural communities.
TV licence costs £145 a year and you can get quite a variety of channels free using Freeview or Freesat. We rarely use mobile phones so the cost is minimal.
 
My main service is a package with AT&T. I don't even look at the bill anymore, except to check if they have sneaked in a service contract charge, because I don't want to get upset. Ha! It is what it is, and life would be so miserable without a cell phone now. Maybe it's one of those "indulgences" from another thread. Last time I checked it was around $225/month.

On my property out in the country, the low areas are dead zones for AT&T. Verizon does slightly better, so I got a Verizon Go Phone for my mother when she lived out there. After paying for the phone, the Go Phone service was only $8.33/month. But it had this very annoying message before every call telling you how many minutes you had left, and apparently no way to stop it.
 
We have CenturyLink/DirecTV, (dumped Comcast 3 years ago) gives us DSL/Basic TV, monthly cost $79.98. We have a two phone plan with Consumer Cellular 1st (wife) w/150MB data/1,200 text (way more than we need) the 2nd (mine) uses only talk, total monthly cost $47.52. Total combined $127.50. OK with cost, basic TV content (poor programming) is out in Dec '1, adding local antenna & access Redbox selections. Monthly charges should be around $50, new total should be less than $100 for internet/wireless, plus $1.50 for each newly released movie at Redbox & $9.99 for Netflix. I don't know how the bundling will work out when AT&T assumes full control of DirecTV & cuts out their competition (CenturyLink), but that shouldn't be my worry.

DSL is slower than cable but acceptable for Netflix or normal web browsing. Wireless will remain the same unless I decide to add a higher limit to my data plan because I have now installed the 2 apps to check my pension & credit union accounts + Facebook more securely than open 'free' wifi during travel. Good thing about Consumer Cell, you can up or downgrade monthly as needed. So any trips I take will include at most an extra $40 to activate the data on my phone. I can still use my tablet with the 'free' wifi (Mcdonald's or Starbucks,,,etc.) for open browsing without accessing personal accounts. As for PFV, I'm not into boxing or Ultimate MMA mayhem. I watch movies on my laptop mostly, earphones in place, don't need glasses for close up viewing, volume turned up & the wife remains calm & sane. There's too many free services on the web, rather than pay for something that you can see for free.
 
I have Comcast bundle with expanded basic cable only. I think it's too expensive. They have taken channels away also. They took SPIKE off and I liked Ink Master, even though I don't have one tattoo. I wonder if they try to bully people into getting a higher tier package. Jerks.

I have a flip phone only with limited minutes. It's all I need. I want it for emergencies. I left work at almost 1230 AM so I need a phone.

I can never have AT&T. When I did and I owned that house I would get harassing phone calls. I had the tracer put on and they stopped for two weeks and then started once the tracer ended. I changed my number and that didn't work either. Those people knew someone who worked at AT&T. I'm sure of it.
 
Guitarist said:
I have Comcast for TV and Internet -- runs around $30+ a month (a little more + if I rent a movie for $2.99 maybe once a month).

$45 a month for my Straight Talk cell phone, unlimited everything and great coverage. I haven't hit a dead zone since I quit riding. I don't understand why anyone would want a billable cell phone with hidden fees added on.

I am happy with all three -- TV, Internet, and phone.
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Now, I could go for that! Seems more reasonable.
 

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