What do you think of my cable TV bill?

Floridatennisplayer said:
I was with Time Warner/Spectrum for 10 years. Jacked up my rate from $138 to $210. Called to cancel.....would only come down to $185. ATT was $135. Went with them. For 2 years. A week after I cancelled Time Warner called and mailed me weekly saying we would have matched them. I said well why didn’t you!!!!
Then after my 2 years, ATT jacked up my rate to $225, threatened to cancel said could only drop the price to $189 even though a new customer would be $140! I cancelled and went with Dish for 2 years For $118. Ugh, slow internet and bad signal if it rained! Just now went back to Spectrum.

Its a stupid game!!!!!!!!! I’m sure in 12 months I’ll threaten again.
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That's amazing. I do require fast internet. TV I don't care about. Comcast phone service is the worst ever. I wish there was more competition so there would be more provider options. Truly I miss the old days when you bought a tv set, plugged it into the wall and got every tv station there was - for FREE. I do not understand why we should pay anything at all for tv. What changed and where was I when it happened?

Thanks for the info.
 

What changed? Nothing. You can still do that if you can pick up over the air channels. The options are limited.
Where I live I can get two channels then and two now.
People have more disposable income now so they go for the luxuries of life. I just have basic cable. $30 a month. Serves my needs. Plenty of channels. All the major networks. I can add channels if I want to pay for them.
 
Camper6 said:
What changed? Nothing. You can still do that if you can pick up over the air channels. The options are limited.
Where I live I can get two channels then and two now.
People have more disposable income now so they go for the luxuries of life. I just have basic cable. $30 a month. Serves my needs. Plenty of channels. All the major networks. I can add channels if I want to pay for them.
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That's completely untrue in my experience. Without cable, a tv will get only two stations in my area. That's it. Before cable, we had about twenty and they were all channels we liked to watch, so basically tv was completely free. A neighbor had cable tv back in the seventies and sometimes, I'd go over and watch. The perk was you could watch movies with no commercials. It seemed like such a treat then, but if we ever had known one day we'd be paying $200.00 a month for it I'll bet very few would have signed on.
 
Camper6 said:
Antenna t.v. Is not an option for everyone. You have to be able to receive stations.
That's why cable is so popular.
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Okay, I stand corrected. Here I get CBS, NBC, PBS, FOX 11, and a few other channels, I don't get ABC. I mainly watch CBS and watch the others for repeats.
 
chic said:
That's completely untrue in my experience. Without cable, a tv will get only two stations in my area. That's it. Before cable, we had about twenty and they were all channels we liked to watch, so basically tv was completely free. A neighbor had cable tv back in the seventies and sometimes, I'd go over and watch. The perk was you could watch movies with no commercials. It seemed like such a treat then, but if we ever had known one day we'd be paying $200.00 a month for it I'll bet very few would have signed on.
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You mean there was about 18 over the air stations that have stopped broadcasting? I remember there was only vhf and only thirteen frequencies. Now there is uhf and plenty of frequencies. So maybe you are missing out? I would never pay $200 a month to watch t.v.

You can go on the Internet and find out which Channels you can pick up over the air in your area.

https://www.overtheairdigitaltv.com/tv-station-locator-tool/
 
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I have cable (100 or so channels) and about 50 hd channels, land line and HS internet. The cost is $185. It seems to go up every year. They basically throw the land line in, without land line $177. However it has free long distance and mailbox etc.
I was in London, England recently visiting my daughter, cable / internet so much less even when pounds converted to our low CND dollar.

Every year I look at the different companies and because they are so similar I don't bother changing. I used to, as another person said, call yearly and threaten to quit, usually they would sweeten the deal a little. But now I have had the same landline number for over 30 years and after checking with the competing cable company, I would have to get a new phone number, or go to cell only, which I don't want to do at this time.
 
I pay $51 something for the first year of wifi through a cable company. When the year is up it will go up to around $75.
 
I guess I am the cheap one on the forum...
Telephone $25/month
Internet$50/month
TV free over the air channels only
for extra TV programs I use my Roku and have access to thousand's of episodes of TV series (again free).
So I guess you would say I spend about $75 a month for my entertainment and communications.
 
C'est Moi said:
We pay about $220/month for Comcast bundled (3) services. I think it's highway robbery but there aren't many options, and I can't talk my husband into "cutting the cord."
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We have Comcast, also...We did get rid of some things we don't look at....We pay 220 a month....And we aren't in our home all year round..
So we still have to pay Comcast and the TV is not on, when we aren't home....We are doing something about that pretty soon.....
 
I pay $19.99 for internet (from Spectrum), $6.47 for Prime (for videos, music and shipping) and $39.38 for my cellphone (Straight Talk). So the total is $65.84. I am happy with it.
 
No land lines here... never paid for cable or satellite... dropped the land line when we sold the house and moved...
Cell service with unlimited data just under $200 month...
old fashion antenna and get something like 32 channels
Did have a PANSAT pirate satellite set up for a few years....
2 dishes... THOUSANDS of channels.... with everything.... and I do mean....EVERYTHING
 
old medic said:
No land lines here... never paid for cable or satellite... dropped the land line when we sold the house and moved...
Cell service with unlimited data just under $200 month...
old fashion antenna and get something like 32 channels
Did have a PANSAT pirate satellite set up for a few years....
2 dishes... THOUSANDS of channels.... with everything.... and I do mean....EVERYTHING
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Consumer Cellular $20 unlimited talk and text.

What do you pay for internet?
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Way back in the days when dinosaurs ruled the world (1970s), my cable TV bill was $14.78 (US). I thought that was highway robbery back then. Today, my phone/cableTV/internet bill was $210.00. I'm not sure what kind of internet capability is. I don't download movies, etc. My internet usage is pretty basic. Cable TV has about 80 or so channels. I don't have the option of switching cable provider. So, it's them or a totally different type of provider. Since everybody , around me, is in the same boat, it's hard to see if I'm getting just ripped off, or Royally getting ripped off.
Thanks.
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Have you considered over the air television with an antenna instead of cable?
 
Robert59 said:
Is 65 in pounds?
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Yes . 65 x 1.25=81.25 U.S. Dollars.
I hope I got that right. How does one type the pound symbol on a keyboard?
Where I live. Canada. Cable 28.25 a month. Internet connection $50. Cell 45. = $123 dollars a month. Now that cable is just basic but it's all I need. And every month they offer free channels in case you want to subscribe to them. My cell phone is a smart phone so there is plenty of options there as well.
 
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