Cable/Internet/Phone costs

[nicolewi]

I'm paying $220 a month. This seems outrageous. Is this normal? This is for phone service, internet, and TV with DVR, bundled. Our provider is Charter. 

[jensriot]

I'm at $145 with taxes for all that. Time Warner. Do you have premium channels or super high speeds? Our internet is 200/20 and no paid for premium channels.

[Deleted]

We pay 133 out the door for cable, national landline, 2 dvrs, basic cable (no premium channels) and Internet is 75mps. Do you have good channels? That might be driving it up. We do Netflix for 8 per month instead of HBO which is 15 a month.

[dizzycooks]

Charter sucks, but is our only choice. We dropped them bc of the charges being out of control. We never had phone or recording options but it was well over $100 for Internet and cable.
We now have snail paced internet through frontier, no phone no cable and it's $29. Much better imo.

[lala]

Yes, I think that's insane.

I would call and negotiate, threaten to cancel, etc.

We usually don't have cable but we do now because of a deal when we switched providers from Comcast to fios - but we negotiated them down; no phone, no dvr, no boxes, just a few premium channels & that's it. I think we pay $70ish. We also got a year free of Netflix from them & a $200 Visa card. When the 2 years is up we'll drop the cable & negotiate internet pricing.

We watch tv via roku - Netflix, Hulu, Amazon prime. We got a year free if Hulu from somewhere, too.

[Deleted]

I thought our old $150 was expensive!
We don't have a landline...we watch basic tv, Hulu and Amazon prime (averages to about $10 a month) and pay $30 for Internet. So for Internet and tv we pay about $40 a month.

[lexus]

We pay $110 for landline, Internet and very basic cable. We have Hulu and Netflix through the Ruku

[abs]

That seems crazy high to me. We are with Comcast and are paying $140/month for DVR, premium cable, and a high internet speed.

I think that is too high but we "need" sports and Disney Jr.

[cna]

$130ish for DIRECTV with 3 receivers and high speed Internet. That goes up a little bit Sep-Feb because I have to have NFL Sunday Ticket. We don't have a landline.

[nicolewi]

Okay,, I have to try to do something about this. We have Charter. We pay $10 more/month for an upgrade to "silver" channels...nothing too crazy. dizzycooks, Charter is our only internet option, too. We could do TV through DirectTV if we wanted. I can double-check and see if they have started internet in our area. I have started to think about doing what many of you do--Netflex, etc, rather than cable. We have the Amazon Fire Stick already. I'd miss HGTV & my DVR, though.

I thought $220 seemed absolutely insane.

[dizzycooks]

Mar 12, 2016 10:44:01 GMT -5 nicolewi said:

Okay,, I have to try to do something about this. We have Charter. We pay $10 more/month for an upgrade to "silver" channels...nothing too crazy. dizzycooks, Charter is our only internet option, too. We could do TV through DirectTV if we wanted. I can double-check and see if they have started internet in our area. I have started to think about doing what many of you do--Netflex, etc, rather than cable. We have the Amazon Fire Stick already. I'd miss HGTV & my DVR, though.

I thought $220 seemed absolutely insane.

Netflix has several hgtv shows we watched house hunters last night:)

[gastro]

Mar 12, 2016 8:00:24 GMT -5 abs said:

That seems crazy high to me. We are with Comcast and are paying $140/month for DVR, premium cable, and a high internet speed.

I think that is too high but we "need" sports and Disney Jr.

This is us. I pay $125 - got a monthly discount for the next 18 months because they made a mistake when a technician came out last year and I called to complain.

Edit: we have a lot of options so it's easy to negotiate with them.

[quesyrah]

We have Vonage for phone at $18/month.

For Internet our only option is Time Warner and we're up to $61. When we moved in last May, we were paying $39 and it has steadily gone up. I HATE time warner.

No cable, we just use Netflix

[L From The D]

We're at about $180/190 after taxes/fees with Comcast. That is for landline phone, high speed internet, upgraded cable (HBO, Starz, sports stations) + four show recorder DVR, and an extra HD box. We could save some money with a lesser package, but I watch NHL Network regularly and that's only on the higher packages, sigh.

[laterbloomer]

I dropped the landline and went to basic cable and got it down to $120. Then I got hooked on Game of Thrones and had to add HBO so it went up to $150. Now SO wants Crave TV so it's going up again. But he's going to start paying half the bill so for me personally the bill will go down significantly.

[cjcouple]

We are just under $150

$100 even for directv. It's extended basic with HD and 2 boxes (genie and mini genie) which is their whole home dvr service. We can record and watch on either tv.

We spend $8 on netflix as well.

Phone and Internet is $38 through Frontier. Not the best internet speed but it is our only option other than the cable company. And the local cable company is terrible Internet. It's always going down according to my resident FB page. Lol. Every week someone is asking if they went out again. I would never pay for their service. (Atlantic)

I think my prices are reasonable.

[Deleted]

We got rid of cable TV and landline phone and I really don't miss it! We pay about $50 for internet and $8 for Netflix. It can be kind of annoying when the internet is slow, but we're also half in the woods and are literally 6 houses away from the end of the internet cables, so it's unusually slow here.

[dizzycooks]

Mar 12, 2016 17:28:51 GMT -5 @leftie22 said:

We got rid of cable TV and landline phone and I really don't miss it! We pay about $50 for internet and $8 for Netflix. It can be kind of annoying when the internet is slow, but we're also half in the woods and are literally 6 houses away from the end of the internet cables, so it's unusually slow here.

The internet ENDS?? ?

[quesyrah]

Mar 12, 2016 20:11:01 GMT -5 dizzycooks said:

Mar 12, 2016 17:28:51 GMT -5 @leftie22 said:

We got rid of cable TV and landline phone and I really don't miss it! We pay about $50 for internet and $8 for Netflix. It can be kind of annoying when the internet is slow, but we're also half in the woods and are literally 6 houses away from the end of the internet cables, so it's unusually slow here.

The internet ENDS?? ?

There's a guy in Seattle (?) that built a custom home that he couldn't get internet at.
ETA: consumerist.com/2015/03/25/new-homeowner-has-to-sell-house-because-of-comcasts-incompetence-lack-of-competition/

[Deleted]

Mar 12, 2016 20:11:01 GMT -5 dizzycooks said:

Mar 12, 2016 17:28:51 GMT -5 @leftie22 said:

We got rid of cable TV and landline phone and I really don't miss it! We pay about $50 for internet and $8 for Netflix. It can be kind of annoying when the internet is slow, but we're also half in the woods and are literally 6 houses away from the end of the internet cables, so it's unusually slow here.

The internet ENDS?? ?

Ha ha - the access sure does! My street ends in mountains/forest/a creek. We're at the very edge of town, and the edge is steep!