I’ve been thinking about how much money I send to Verizon, AT&T, COX, NetFlix, etc. every month and their ads on how to save money by bundling their services together.<\/p>\n
So if I move my home phone from Verizon to Cox I can save $14\/month. \u00a0Maybe more, it looks like the “bundle” pricing is less than I’m currently paying \ud83d\ude41 \u00a0So the minimum bundle with Cox (intenet, local phone, basic TV) is $68\/month compared to my current unbundled cost of $148\/month. \u00a0Assuming Cox isn’t telling me about the $13 in telco fee’s & taxes that probably get added in, it’s still $67\/month lower!<\/p>\n
Or maybe move my TV and Internet Access to Verizon, oops FiOS isn’t here yet so it’d be DSL and Direct TV for now… Not going to go to a slower connection. \u00a0Too bad, since it’d be nice if I could get a bundle that included the mobile broadband data plan from them.<\/p>\n
So, combining services gets me down to $80\/month (which I’m not sure I believe since it’s less than my current bill!). \u00a0Now what if I dump services instead of just consolidating them?<\/p>\n
Why not dump the wired line and only use my cell phone? \u00a0Granted no power means no cell phone service, but that’s only if it’s a major power outage. \u00a0How about dumping cable? \u00a0I’ve got Roku with Netflix and can add Hulu Plus, and for local channels a USB TV Tuner is only $50 to get the local over the air channels.<\/p>\n
So if I bump up the Internet Plan for Cox to go from 16 to 24 MBPS and That gets me down to $59\/month, saving almost $90\/month!<\/p>\n
But what did you give up? \u00a0no more telemarketers and political pollsters calling and from the entertainment\/TV side. \u00a0Guess it’s time to try to live without cable news…..<\/p>\n
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I’ve been thinking about how much money I send to Verizon, AT&T, COX, NetFlix, etc. every month and their ads on how to save money by bundling their services together. So if I move my home phone from Verizon to … Continue reading