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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | reply to jazzlady
Re: Broken System said by jazzlady:The problem is that many of us rely on cable internet. When you drop the cable tv part, they jack your bill up.
If I drop my tv, my cable modem bill goes up $15 a month. Granted, $15 a month isn't too terrible, but what's to stop them from raising it $40 or $50 a month to make up for the lost revenue? Agreed, but this for me was my only option.
Although in my particular case, when I downgraded my Internet with Comcast to Economy Plus, I was able to avoid that big of a hit. And, I can still do Netflix streaming and VPN/RDP sessions for working from home.
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| said by pnh102:said by jazzlady:The problem is that many of us rely on cable internet. When you drop the cable tv part, they jack your bill up.
If I drop my tv, my cable modem bill goes up $15 a month. Granted, $15 a month isn't too terrible, but what's to stop them from raising it $40 or $50 a month to make up for the lost revenue? Agreed, but this for me was my only option. Although in my particular case, when I downgraded my Internet with Comcast to Economy Plus, I was able to avoid that big of a hit. And, I can still do Netflix streaming and VPN/RDP sessions for working from home. I understand completely.
Between this news, and the news yesterday about the FCC allowing cableco's to encrypt basic cable- I am thinking of dropping it also.
If I have to rent converter boxes/remotes my tv cost will go from $70 a month to $120- just for the tv part.
If that happens I may look into a commercial account with the same provider, if it has no caps, or reasonable ones.
They sure have consumers by the short and curly's, that''s for sure. :-(
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