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A few notes: * "First X months" deals are everywhere in home internet access. Buying TV and internet together is usually only slightly more expensive than inte
by karmelapple 9y ago
A few notes:
* "First X months" deals are everywhere in home internet access. Buying TV and internet together is usually only slightly more expensive than internet alone for the first 12 months. After that, I'm guessing they hope you've become dependent on it or forget your prices went up.
* I think "cord cutting" generally meant eliminating the cable plugin to the TV. Sure, a cable still goes to your modem, but if you had cable internet, you're still eliminating one cord... now your TV is solely fed by Roku/AppleTV/etc rather than that plus traditional cable.
It was just a way to communicate getting rid of something - cable TV - which many Americans equated with having success in life and/or prosperity.
- Swizec 9y ago> Buying TV and internet together is usually only slightly more expensive than internet alone for the first 12 months. It's even worse than that, Comcast won't even sell me their top tier internet without TV and the next tier down is only $10 cheaper but less than half the bandwidth. So I'm paying for cable that I have nowhere to plug into because I don't own a TV anyway.
- usaphp 9y ago> So I'm paying for cable that I have nowhere to plug into because I don't own a TV anyway. But you can watch all the channels online using their channel websites or phone apps if you want to. They ask your cable subscription login to verify.