superdave
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The Canadian Situation
We currently pay around $120/month for local phone, mid tier HD cable and no cap internet + a digital box + PVR. Not bad, but it can easily float to $200 /mth if you don't exercise some restraint. Every 6 mths or so, I call my provider, threaten to cancel, and they offer me the deal de jour. So I manage to keep my bill at around 120-140.
The local phone service is the easiest to replace. I already use Skype for long distance, so I figure that eventually a cell will replace the home phone.
I would love to drop the HD Cable, but I also love HD on my 2 HDTVs. In Canada, you have to use a US proxy to access online US content, but it is doable. In Nova Scotia, we don`t yet have OTA HD. If we did, I`d drop the Cable immediately.
At the end of the day, high speed internet is the only service I see me paying for within 1-2 years.
Interesting story. My brother in law has some coop students working for a company that run cable and such for `the providers`. They reason that they have a recession proof business. People will not give up high speed internet no matter what. So you gotta have power, water and high speed internet as necessities these days.
We currently pay around $120/month for local phone, mid tier HD cable and no cap internet + a digital box + PVR. Not bad, but it can easily float to $200 /mth if you don't exercise some restraint. Every 6 mths or so, I call my provider, threaten to cancel, and they offer me the deal de jour. So I manage to keep my bill at around 120-140.
The local phone service is the easiest to replace. I already use Skype for long distance, so I figure that eventually a cell will replace the home phone.
I would love to drop the HD Cable, but I also love HD on my 2 HDTVs. In Canada, you have to use a US proxy to access online US content, but it is doable. In Nova Scotia, we don`t yet have OTA HD. If we did, I`d drop the Cable immediately.
At the end of the day, high speed internet is the only service I see me paying for within 1-2 years.
Interesting story. My brother in law has some coop students working for a company that run cable and such for `the providers`. They reason that they have a recession proof business. People will not give up high speed internet no matter what. So you gotta have power, water and high speed internet as necessities these days.