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| I will be changing my future plans.. Right now, pay around 150 a month for TV, Internet and phone, and another $100 to 150 amonth on cell phones (family plan with 2 iphones). The current 2fer deal that, internet and TV that verizon has for 99 is what I will be changing to (I have FIOS already), but I do not use the landline.
Ideally I would be able to dump all teh rest of the crap.. ESPN, I know I am paying for it, but I never watch it.. in fact, I watch zero, absolutely no sports on TV... I did not even watch teh Olympics, I hate sports on TV.. why should I be paying for it...
In the current times, I think ala'carte (spelling??) type programming would be great for the customer, obviously not so much for the content providers and the carriers since it would be a loss of revenue, but times are tough, and if need be I will drop TV all together, and I am sure many are like me..
I like everyone else.. and starting to cut services, and unless those service providers do something.. they will end up as the casualties, not the customers... | |
 kamm
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Brooklyn, NY | Agreed. I'm so disgusted with TWCNYC's shitty quality and sky-high pricing I'll drop them within a month or two - the only remaining question is what's next: OTA+Hetflix only, a cheap ($30-40) Dish package or when FIOS arrive get a TV bundle...?
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[BQUOTE=[user=bicker]]Waaaa waaaa waaaa. You just want what you want and don't care to factor in what is right or true. Your perspectives are un-American, and deserve far more ridicule than I'm prepared to pile on them.
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said by jvanbrecht:Right now, pay around 150 a month for TV, Internet and phone, and another $100 to 150 amonth on cell phones (family plan with 2 iphones). If you factor in the programming, bandwidth and infrastructure, telephony, etc costs for the 1 service vs the 3 it is amazing how much cell companies charge these days. | |
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I'm in the same spot in regards to sports programming. This is a huge part of our cable bills. It seems every year ESPN goes back to the same well and dips in for more money. The cable operator complies because it knows it has a bunch of angry customers on its hands if it does otherwise.
I'm considering unscrewing the coax from the wall for a week and seeing how it goes. I can easily get 75% of the content I watch over the air. At least half of the remaining stuff is available online in some sort of official capacity. And of course the remaining content is out there on P2P, though I prefer to avoid that. The convenience of cable bringing it all on the same line is nice, but it's still advertiser-supported programming and that convenience charge is getting a bit too much these days. | |
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