Cost of Your Internet?

Born_To_Lose said:
I don’t know. All my bills are on auto-pay.
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I have auto-pay for everything, too, but I know what's going out each month. I could never not know what the cost of things are.

I have a next door neighbor lady, who's a widow and just turned 89, and we were talking the other day about the cost of utilities. She said she has no idea how much they are because all her bills go to her bank and are paid automatically. She said she has no idea how much money she has in the bank o_O
 

2 cell phones with unlimited text, talk anywhere in the world, Netflix paid by internet supplier & typically 160mb download for a fixed for life $127.00 a month.
 
I live in a small village and in spite of numerous promises that we will get fibre broadband, we still only the speed of a dead snail crawling through treacle. I can't understand why anyone needs a trillion Gb,and I'd be happy with a whole lot less. I ditched my 'copper wire' broadband for a 4G mobile one. I get up to 40Mb with unlimited data + texts which is OK for browsing, shopping etc. It costs £20 a month.
 
I have to amend my original post that I pay $55. In reality, my charge for internet is $89.99 but I was approved for the ACP program, which gives me a $30 credit. I don't expect that to last too much longer, though :(
 
Jace said:
Verizon $40/mo.
" L.L. $20/ mo.
Free TV...antenna.😉(50 channels..that's plenty)
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What kind of LL do you have? I pay a fortune for mine and am thinking of dumping it. I do have a hack that a friend told me about. Maybe I will try that to lower the cost. I just hate spending so much for the line.
 
Colleen said:
I have to amend my original post that I pay $55. In reality, my charge for internet is $89.99 but I was approved for the ACP program, which gives me a $30 credit. I don't expect that to last too much longer, though :(
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I also have the ACP program for my internet. We have Google Fiber here, and they have not said anything about the ACP ending. Google came out with a cheaper program for low income people and it is around $27 a month for the internet, and the ACP pays up to $30 per month, so I have no internet charges at this point.
 
@birdy...L.l=Verizon...but gotten years ago...when moved into house...
and when 'they went' FIOS (fiber optics.over copper wiring)
We got 'grandfathered' in..no price increase.
Good Luck.
(Won't give up)
 
We have the TV, phone, and internet "bundled" from our rural electric co-op. The TV is $130/mo.(200 channels), the internet is $50/mo.(100MB), and the landline phone is only $6/mo., with the "bundle". They are all supplied on fiber optics, and are crystal clear. In addition, the co-op supplies free HALO service where I can stream the TV channels to my computer.
 
My cell phone is with T-Mobile’s prepaid plan for a flat fee of 15/month. I don’t have a landline. For tv I share YouTube with a friend and we split the cost of 74/month. I have high speed internet through spectrum for 55/month. When they raise it I threaten to leave and they lower it back down to the same price.
 
You are paying a good price VJB. I dropped Optimum Triple Play (phone, internet, basic cable) in 2018 because their prices were getting to be ridiculous ($129) and just kept internet, which at the time went from $61 to $68. Optimum's connections started becoming very sketchy so I dropped them. I now have Verizon Fios. I had 200 GB at first and was paying $56 then $71, then they raised it to $81. I called, asked for a senior discount and the rep gave me a new forever deal $70 for 500 GB.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
You are paying a good price VJB. I dropped Optimum Triple Play (phone, internet, basic cable) in 2018 because their prices were getting to be ridiculous ($129) and just kept internet, which at the time went from $61 to $68. Optimum's connections started becoming very sketchy so I dropped them. I now have Verizon Fios. I had 200 GB at first and was paying $56 then $71, then they raised it to $81. I called, asked for a senior discount and the rep gave me a new forever deal $70 for 500 GB.
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Well done for fighting your corner.

I don't have any TV packages, so that keeps cost down. I'd love to buy a package for football only, but would you believe such a thing doesn't exist here. If you want football, then they make you buy a whole lot of other nonsense I've no interest in. There is a "Daily Pass" I can buy, but it's £10 a day, which is ridiculous given football is usually on four days a week.

I upgraded to get a deal and was surprised when they said it would take a week to come into effect. These things are usually purely software based and ought to take a few minutes at most. Obviously they're doing something else.
 
VaughanJB said:
I'd love to buy a package for football only, but would you believe such a thing doesn't exist here. If you want football, then they make you buy a whole lot of other nonsense I've no interest in. T
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I watch all the Sunday games on Monday with YouTube NFL..Most games are about 15 minutes long..
 
Ken N Tx said:
I watch all the Sunday games on Monday with YouTube NFL..Most games are about 15 minutes long..
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Yes, you can watch highlights for Football here too (though, of course, I'm referring to Soccer from a US perspective).

It's really annoying though. I follow my team, and I want to watch all their games. When the viewing rights were sold, they wanted "competition" in the bidding process, because one channel, Sky, essentially had all the games. What resulted is that three channels got the rights, so the cost to the consumer was essentially three times as much!

Worse - I don't want to watch every game. I want to watch the team I support only. But there is no subscription that will allow me to do that - to only subscribe to one team, you have to pay for every match. Grrrrrrrr.
 
-Oy- said:
This is my current speed just tested. We pay £40 a month.

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That's pricey. I'm also with Virgin, and I currently pay £44 a month for twice that speed, which includes my landline.

Mind, you have to have fiber to your home to get better than yours, and you may not have it. Also, Virgin like to package in Smartphone contracts, TV bundles, etc. I don't indulge in that - it's for internet and landline only.

Also not, since you're on Virgin - they've changed a key policy. From April 2024, any new contract (so all renewals) have a clause added that prices will increase every April by the Retail Price Index + 3.9%. In the past, for the duration of a contract, the price never increased.
 
Rant first:

In Feb this year, I spent 5 days solid achieving 5 separate offers with BT.
Confirmation emails were all different to what I'd been quoted over the phone - ie they were more. The last phone call I spent 3 hours debating/complaining about the way I was treated and the stress it had caused me.
In the end I received a £50 reduction in my first bill as compensation.

Rant over.


The best offer I could get for 24 months:

Fibre 2

Estimated download speed: 44-49 Mbps

Estimated upload speed: 8-9 Mbps

Your Stay Fast download speed: 40 Mbps

Cost: £24.99 pm

That includes landline, no free calls.


Gawd, I detest BT - I've been with them since the year dot and the only reason I'm still with them is because I refuse to pay online and I want paper bills (which I pay £3 for). When shopping round for other providers they want services to be online.
 

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