Gjac wrote:
1775 wrote:
You still have to pay COX for your internet connection - or someone. And having a single service from these cable companies often costs more than when paired with one of their other services.
This seems to be the big question that is not answered in these discussions. What do folks pay for just the internet? Then when you add additional costs for the other devices and services how did this compare with the bundled service plan? I think most of us feel we pay more than we should for channels we never watch especially when you add the cable/dish and cell phones together.
Our cable bill was $180 and change for HDTV, a DVR, and Internet. No premium channels, no sports. With a TiVo and antenna, plus Netflix, Amazon Prime and paying for season subscriptions to recent shows ("Walking Dead", etc.) we average now about $90 per month. Internet alone was to be $62, but Comcast had a bundle deal with internet and very basic TV for $54 - so we took it, and didn't bother hooking up the TV. We pretty much watch what we always did with cable. Can't think of a single show we haven't been able to find one way or the other since dropping the TV portion of cable.
There is chatter that Comcast is thinking of converting to "pay per gigabyte" like cell phones, to recover the fall off in income from cord cutters. That will be a sad day if it comes about.
