We still watch traditional TV occasionally in my house, so we had to find something to satiate that need. So I’m willing to forgive a momentary loss of service now and again if my cable modem hasn’t been rebooted recently enough, and it’s suddenly overwhelmed by a tidal wave of kids streaming YouTube and online gaming. At the best of times, the broadband tests say our speed gets up into maybe the 80 Mbit/s range, and for a much more manageable $40 a month. That was the last straw, goodbye Verizon.īeing fortunate enough to live in one of the few areas in America with somewhat of a choice of broadband provider, I signed up with Charter I mean Spectrum for plain and simple Internet. Then, I was told when canceling my service on the 2nd call that they could have gotten my cost down as low as $65, if I had figured out how to threaten them in just the right way the first time I called, whatever that means. Somehow having TV in the bundle actually lowers the price (probably due to some stupid government subsidy). If only I’d threatened to cancel in just the right way…Īnyway, after making my complaints known, and listening to FiOS customer service hemming and hawing, the best Big Red could do for me was $95/month, still including local channels by the way. But I started to wonder more and more as the bills came rolling in: is that reliability worth such a mark-up, when Verizon was recently offering Internet-only plans for $40 for new customers (and only new customers)? I decided no. Mine came when I called Verizon this summer to try and get a better price than the $120+ I was paying for (to be honest, decently fast and pretty reliable) FiOS Internet along with an assortment of cable channels we almost never used. Every cord cutter knows what their breaking point was. Let’s be clear: there is no better feeling than the day you break up with your Internet/TV/Phone provider and cut the cord. Click here to skip my Doofenshmirtz-level backstory and right to the review.
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