Well, I have an antenna on my roof. Not interested in cable. (But then I don’t watch sports). I have Uverse for land line and internet and we pay $87 a month for that. We have Netflix, Amazon Prime and occasionally I subscribe to HBO to watch Game of Thrones. It all seems outrageous to me.
I don’t know what you watch besides sports but it seems to me you could just subscribe to sports online and give up the whole cable thing. TiVo helps too. Good luck. I don’t seem to have any problems doing what I want to do with > On Dec 14, 2016, at 9:00 PM, Bill Rising <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I just got my latest TWC/Spectrum bill, and lo and behold, it was 30% higher > than the month before, and included a sports programming fee, an extra DVR > service charge, an extra charge for a settop box that my wife was told was > free [1] when she got it. > > Anyways, all in all, if I pay this highway robbery [2], I'll end up paying > nearly $2,000/year for internet and TV [3]. > > I started my usual routine of planning the annual call to ask why loyal > customers get screwed while new customers get cheap prices, only to find out > that Spectrum has eliminated all packages close to what I have, and going for > separate services would be $5 less per month. > > Thus, I figure I need to threaten to leave for the Uverse/DirectTV world. BUT > before I do this, I want to be sure that the threat is real. What I found was: > I can get channels similar to what I have now. > I can get 1/2 of the download speed(!): 24Mbps vs. 50 Mbps > for (supposedly) $110/mo. > The UVerse offers on line claim equipment fees for up to 4 rooms, HD > DVR service, Wi-Fi gateway 'to my devices', all for free. If this is the > case, then including taxes, the bill should be about $115/month instead of > TWC's $164/month. > > Here are the questions for this group: > > Earlier indications seem to say that the UVerse internet 'experience' is > crap (bad modems, slow speed, etc.) Is it crap or not that bad? > > When AT&T claims that the above-mentioned services are free, are they truly > free, or are there things like the rental-car companies have, with recovery > fees and CEO bonus fees and keep-my-cousin-employed fees? How close is > $110/month to the truth? [4] > > If UVerse is crappy and TWC is thieving, does anyone have any other > suggestions. The one sticking point is including lots of sports channels for > my wife. > > Thanks for any tips, > > Bill > > [1] I guess for a year? > [2] Monopoly robbery? > [3] So, nearly my property taxes for supporting things like roads, schools, > and other things far less frivolous. > [4] In this post-truth world._______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
