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View Poll Results: How much is your average monthly cost for TV, landline, cellphones and internet?
$0 - $50 6 2.07%
$51 - $100 46 15.86%
$101 - $150 46 15.86%
$151 - $200 58 20.00%
$201 - $250 52 17.93%
over $250 82 28.28%
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Old 11-26-2018, 10:29 PM   #41
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There are some ambiguities in the question. Does TV include all video or just actual TV channels? Does cell phone include just the service or also the cost of the phone?

TV - Playstation Vue - $54.11, Hulu - $8.63 - Netflix - $15.14 (We also get some video through Amazon Prime but that is a bonus because we have Prime mostly for the shipping).

Landline - None

Cell phone - About $138 for the service (Verizon, includes service on an Apple Watch). We are also currently paying for 2 Apple iPhones and that cost is not included in the above as it is time limited.

Internet - $48.82. Will go up $5 when the first year is up and then up another $5 at the end of the second year.
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Old 11-26-2018, 10:35 PM   #42
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There are some ambiguities in the question. Does TV include all video or just actual TV channels? Does cell phone include just the service or also the cost of the phone?....
OMG... this must be the first poll in the history of e-r.org with ambiguities.

TV is for what you watch... some people are satisfied with basic cable and others want the premium channels.

Cell phone was not intended to include the cost of the phone... just the service.. some people have just talk but these days most people have talk/text and data.
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Old 11-26-2018, 10:56 PM   #43
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Old 11-27-2018, 02:14 AM   #44
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Interesting that the definition of utilities in US is different. In Singapore, utilities means power+cooking gas+water.

Also realized Internet is expensive in the US. In Singapore 500mbps fibre broadband costs S$29. That is the cheapest. The more expensive 1gbps and 2gbps cost like $40-50.
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Old 11-27-2018, 02:55 AM   #45
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I'm high I guess. Single:

$149 Cell plan, nation wide, unlimited data with no throttling (also my only internet), 2 sim cards
$10 Amazon Prime
$11 Netflix
$8 VPN ($99/yr)

$178 total

I'm adding Youtube TV next summer.
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Old 11-27-2018, 04:17 AM   #46
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We own a home in Florida and a home in Mexico.

Florida
TV and Internet: $147 (bundled with Spectrum)
Cell: $50 (T-Mobile unlimited calls, texts, data)
Landline: none
Total: $197

Mexico (in US dollars equivalent):
TV: none (we watch our Spectrum from US via Slingplayer)
Internet and Landline: $17 (TelMex phone company)
Cell: $12 (TelCel, unlimited calls, text, data)
Total: $29
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Old 11-27-2018, 05:23 AM   #47
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Old 11-27-2018, 05:29 AM   #48
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Hulu, Netflix - $18 (we also watch Amazon Prime - not incl)
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Channel Master DVR - $0
Cell T Mobile 55+ - $30 (per instructions - cost of 1 line)
Landline - Don't have one

Total $98
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Old 11-27-2018, 05:40 AM   #49
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I selected 150-200, although right now it's below 150. It will be above $150 at some point next year. One time phone costs are included.
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Direct TV 75.99 per month
AT&T u-verse internet 50.00
Cricket phones for 2- 60.00
Cut cord on land line 2014

185.99 per month total.

All Electric Utilities average for the year- 94.37 per month with Geo Thermal
electric heat and cool in the St Louis area.
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Old 11-27-2018, 06:21 AM   #52
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Spectrum TV/internet/land phone works less premium channels $205 (just went up $20)
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Old 11-27-2018, 06:56 AM   #53
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So sorry - voted before I read your note indicating that only one cell phone bill should be included, not two.

Here is correction:
Cell phone via TMobile Sr. plan (which I learned about here, thank you!): $35 all in, as one half of their $70 all in plan for two 55+ people. For that I get unlimited calls and text throughout North America, plus 5GB of data.

Internet: $50 all in with AT&T. We piggyback off family subscriptions for Hulu, Netflix and Amazon Prime.

CBS Online: $5.99. This is our ongoing birthday gift to my SIL, which we then share with family in return for their sharing of above. CBS shows, which my SIL loves, are not available next day via Hulu.

No cable. No landline.

So all in, one person, $90.99/two people $125.99.
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I included our two person cellphone plan.
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Imagine this poll in 1980.
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Interesting that the definition of utilities in US is different. In Singapore, utilities means power+cooking gas+water.
I wouldn't say this is the definition of utilities in the US. It's only the definition for this poll/thread. I could see these things being included in utilities, but utilities normally includes what you list. I can also see why the OP didn't want to muddy the picture including those things. I'm not taking issue with the thread title, just pointing out that utilities doesn't have an entirely different definition in the US than in Singapore.
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Imagine this poll in 1980.

Very inexpensive. All you had to do was hang out the kitchen window and yell, “Hey Trixie! Hey Norton! Ready to go to the Raccoon Lodge?”
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Very inexpensive. All you had to do was hang out the kitchen window and yell, “Hey Trixie! Hey Norton! Ready to go to the Raccoon Lodge
Got to back it up 25 years for that.
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Got to back it up 25 years for that.
Yes, but the magic of streaming can back it up as if it were yesterday!
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In Canada

Internet - $34.99 plus tax (Carrytell 75Mb down, 10Mb up)
Cell Phone - $48 plus tax (Fido 5GB data, unlimited phone and text)
Landline - $0 (Obihai200 with freephoneonline.ca (unlimited CDN LD) and Google Voice (Unlimited US LD)
Television - $0 (OTA)

Total $93.77
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