Has anyone given up cable or satellite TV for internet?

BCEagle91
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:47:03 +0000

Can you get lifeline service for your phone line? It’s $6 in my area which turns into about $16 after the taxes and fees.

What I did is called them up to cancel my service and they apparently connected me to a negotiator. The price increase was $6/month for phone/dsl. I told the negotiator that I was going to switch to ComCast since they had an offer for four times faster internet and much better phone service for the same price as DSL/phone from the phone company. So the negotiator offered me a $11 discount from my old rate for both for a year and I immediately said yes. The higher speed from ComCast would be nice as sometimes someone in the home is doing something bandwidth-intensive that slows everyone else down but it doesn’t happen enough to bother me.

You basically have to convince these companies that you are serious about dropping their service.

The one thing that I learned is how much profit margin they have to work with. I’m sure that they are still making money on my service, even with a 34% discount.