Every time I turned around, my Frontier rate climbed a few dollars. When it reached $210 a month for TV, internet, and a landline, I dropped the cable TV (about 2 years ago, now). Can't quite wrap my head around how they get away with adding sports fees to a cable bill. Don't those people make enough money? Why are we all subsidizing it? I don't watch them. 300 channels, and I used MAYBE 10 of them. I don't even miss it.
I mounted a good TV antenna at the highest point in my attic, and I get numerous channels. Added Netflix and I am perfectly happy. I believe it's now time ditch the landline, as the only purpose it serves is giving robocallers something to do.
Well, we live in a free country and a free economy.
Nothing wrong with them charging what they do and at the same time, we are free to go elsewhere.
Bottom line, until recently, people have been paying whatever they want to charge, as a business, it only makes sense to make as much money as possible.
We cut the cord a decade ago, before it was the "in" thing. Saved thousands of dollars and we have sooo much programming we can not possibly watch it all, its stupid and out of control. Its sooooo cool to see other posts like yours now!
We still have a landline phone, we like to give that number out to places that we dont want to have our cell number, cell number for family and whatever, home number for services and we never answer it, leave a message *LOL*
Our landline phone only cost $5.35 a month for the last decade, unlimited calling and cheap international too.
As Americans we whine and cry about prices but we never say no to them, companies know this and have a right to charge whatever they want.
Its not just Pay TV, its everything, including automobiles! Only in the USA are vehicles loaded up full of options compared to the European Union. Because Americans will take out the HUGE loans to buy them.
Most new families have NO idea about the constant drain on their paychecks, instead of focusing on paying down debt, they ignore the costs of the credit and "auto payments" coming out of the checking accounts.