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Our Verizon FIOS package expires, we are paying $115 a month for cable + internet + phone. I'm cancelling the cable and phone, and will be paying $59.99 month for 2 years. We are also able to get comcast, and their first year teaser rate is $39.99, then goes up to $62. but then I'd need to hope my old router and modem works, then pay a $50 installation fee, then every 6 months call up and fight them about getting me a new special deal for the $39.99. So for now, I'll stick with FIOS, but will ask around and reevaluate what others pay in 2 years.
I bought an HD antenna on Amazon, an OOMA, for voice over ip phone. I work from home, and my office provides a way to make phone calls though the computer, but the computer is such crap that I don't trust it. That and when I'm on the phone for long periods of time (like multiple calls to comcast and verizon to get the best rate) it's nice knowing I don't have to worry about minutes.
Ooma will be 7.99 a month for 2 years (depreciating the price of the box) then after that $4 a month for the taxes for 911.
I won't miss TV at all. With 2 little kids we don't have time to watch it, and half the time I end up watching tv shows on my tablet. We won't be going the netflix/amazon prime route either, I wasn't impressed with their catalog with my trials, and would rather have the money.
We are only saving $32 a month cutting cable + phone for the first two years, so it's easy to have other expenses suck up that void. I bumped up my 401K contribution 1% and espp plan 2% to celebrate this little savings.
I bought an HD antenna on Amazon, an OOMA, for voice over ip phone. I work from home, and my office provides a way to make phone calls though the computer, but the computer is such crap that I don't trust it. That and when I'm on the phone for long periods of time (like multiple calls to comcast and verizon to get the best rate) it's nice knowing I don't have to worry about minutes.
Ooma will be 7.99 a month for 2 years (depreciating the price of the box) then after that $4 a month for the taxes for 911.
I won't miss TV at all. With 2 little kids we don't have time to watch it, and half the time I end up watching tv shows on my tablet. We won't be going the netflix/amazon prime route either, I wasn't impressed with their catalog with my trials, and would rather have the money.
We are only saving $32 a month cutting cable + phone for the first two years, so it's easy to have other expenses suck up that void. I bumped up my 401K contribution 1% and espp plan 2% to celebrate this little savings.
. So, I gave them the boot and got an HD antenna at Walmart and haven't regreted it yet. I did keep internet with At&T, have had great internet service with them. If I miss a show on one of the three big networks, I login with a friend's cable login and watch it on my laptop. NO BIG LOSS!!!
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