Process of elimination

Consumer Cellular for the phones. It's on ATT network, so your coverage will be identical.

I am a Consumer Cellular customer. Consumer Cellular uses AT&T network.
I suggest you take a look their rates. I have two cell phones and you can also use your cell phone system with your home phone. Your home phone will have it's own number and is $10.00 per month. Your cell phones will vary dependent on how many minutes you subscribe to.

consumer cellular

Not using text messaging because you don’t understand it or because? Heck, we text within the house, with the daughter and her husband...even ”come in for lunch!”

Time to cut the cord and dump the Dish.

Switch to Direct TV Online, you get a discount since you're with ATT, and streaming it doesn't count against your data. I believe it's $25 a month with your discount

Dump Windstream too, use your AtT service for phone and internet at home.

That's a savings of $167 a month

Dump Dish. Use Over The Air (OTA) and one of the now many TV over Internet such as YouTube TV, etc. Their seems to be more of these popping up everyday.

Consumer Cellular without data (keep your flip phones if you are happy with them)]/i] is $35 + taxes & fees. There is a 5% discount for AARP members.

We dumped dish several years ago. We used sling tv for about 2 years and just recently changed to YouTube tv. I like the choices on YouTube tv and I can also record to the cloud. The recordings are saved for 9 months. Of course all of this is based on having internet service.

At home scrap the wire line. if you use it for DSL interente get a "Dry Line" (no dial tone) way less expensive

Dish TV... I had that. I also had Direct, if you MUST have "Premimum" services those are your choices when RVing. Get an RV plan.
Direc can still sell "Distant Network Service" so you get ABC,NBC and all the TLAs (three letter Acronyms) no matter where you go with the possible exception of PBS.

Dish you have to call and change your service location every time you move.

use the "Spare" receivers in the house (you wil have to self install a dish/Antenna)

OR do what I do.. The simple version: OTA ANTENNA.. Yup Winegard Sensar IV with Sensar Pro and I can't watch all the TV I get.

Complex version... And this is very complex but read it anyway (Simplifed version here)

I have 2 (Shoudl have kept the 3rd one) REPLAY TV DVR's. these are older, no longer made (DirectTV owns the patents now) Digita Video Records NTSC standard,, They do not do modrn ATSC but I have a pair of digital converters in fron of them.. These are connected one to the MAIN tv up front and one to the Bedroom. the Sensar Pro feeds the multiplex switch (Box of many buttons) up front and from there it can feed any of the TV's or The front converter or the Replays, nto that they can use OTA any more.. The converters feed the REPLAY units on A/V in so the antenna jack is open in case the campagrond has Park Cabe on the NTSC standard (Some still do) When I was stuck in such a park it was fun because my favorite statrion did nto always work on cable, but did on teh OTA so the Replays choose Cabe or OTA automaticalyk they also contro the Converters ike they were Sat Receivers... |
They are networked so I can record in one room watch in the other, switch rooms mid show, and so on and a those "Only our over pricced subscription service lets you do this" stuff.
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Finally I have a dedicated 100 dollar computer that for 25/year gets access to a n electronic TV Guide (Program listing service)

So they DVR's work just ike a Dish DVR.. In fact... DISH got sued for copying Replay's software for use in their DVR's so it is JUST like a Dish DVR.

ANd I do it all for 25/year after initial investiment, and the Replays... Well I got them long, long ago.

Marvin, I think I owe you an apology. I was the one that suggested that you post to the open forum.
If you like to watch TV then you need to keep Dish but it should be installed at your home and you use the same receiver(s) in your RV when you travel. This costs you nothing additional. If you don't need Dish for TV then we have a different scenario. If you are paying for home phone service plus cellular phone service then you need to drop the home phone in favor of cellular only as that will work at home and when you are on the road.
Voice and messaging is generally included in all plans at no charge so whether you use it or not is not important. The plans are put together based upon data and trying to replace your Dish (any kind of TV service) with a service that requires internet is going to be much more costly than anything you are paying for now.
T-Mobile does have a very nice 55+ plan where you get 2 phones for $60/month with unlimited internet but that does not include tethering. I have heard that you can add tethering for another $20/month but there are still going to be many areas where limited or no service is available rendering ALL TV watching useless. I believe you have Dish at home and you plan to use it on the road. This is a GOOD plan. Separately, you need to consider your best options for phone and internet.

wa8yxm wrote:
if you use it for DSL interente get a "Dry Line" (no dial tone) way less expensive

Please explain the "dry line" to me since I pay $10 for a dial tone and just internet, no phone.

Horizon170 wrote:
Hi Everyone, We are paying about 80 bucks for our two AT&T flip phones and 75 bucks for home (Windstream) phone/internet. 117 bucks for DISH Network.
Is there anything I can have at home and camping to replace these?
I need internet and cell phone service.
I also have Dish but think I need to keep that at $117.00/month.
I have a separate antenna for dish network while traveling.
Thanks, Marvin
BTW, Neither of us use Text messaging.

$272.00/month

is putting a strain on our fixed income.

Cell phone:
$45/mo walmart Straight talk unlimited minutes, text, talk, and unlimited data. NO contract. Buy a phone or just bring your existing phone in, keep your number.
Just pay $45 bucks a month with credit card or pick up a monthly card at walmart and call in code.

If you are not a gamer you can easily use your phone on the $45/month card as a computer.

TV:
I had dish etc, ALL the channels, paid extra for the sports, and movie channels, pay for this box and pay for that box, yada yada yada.
............I CUT the line! I am cable/satellite free.....

I now use OTA - over the air antenna for FREE TV.
Depends where you are located how many channels you get. Right next to a major city over 40 channels. I does matter which OTA antenna you buy how many channels you will receive. I paid $50 bucks one time charge for the antenna for free channels.

My new winter home in Florida is below the road and surrounded by 100 year old trees and I 'still' get 28 free channels!! Plus And on weekends? ALL the sports channels broadcast for FREE. Every week they keep adding a channel off cable to my line up.

And here in Florida when it rains hard all the internet providers for TV go dark. I never loose my free channels.

My total for the month?.....

$45.00/mo

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I now save over $200+ a month that I don't have to fork over to dish, that's appox $2,400+ savings a year.

I most certainly can afford cable/satellite, etc.

But, IMHO no one needs 'that' many channels, and actually no one can watch all the channels per month that they make you bundle to charge you more. And honestly does anyone really sit in front of that TV 24 hours a day watching cable to warrant that type of monthly charge? :W