Changing Internet Service
@just4him (323168)
Green Bay, Wisconsin
May 20, 2016 1:51pm CST
I went online to pay my Internet bill and found it had gone up $16 over last month's bill. Totally ridiculous! I have my landline attached to my Internet, but still it shouldn't cost almost $90 just to be able to enjoy the Internet. Not when I'm seeing better rates than that from other providers.
So Time Warner is history. When I logged in to their site it said they had just merged with Comcast. I knew they were, I didn't expect a price hike like that though.
So now I'm with AT&T and will be connected with them the end of the month. Oh and the installation is waived when I move, so I will only pay a one time installation fee.
I think these services think we're made of money. I'm on a fixed income and can't afford a huge Internet/phone bill. I prefer landline to cell as I only have 250 minutes on my Obama phone - free government phone which is talk and text only. So I need the landline.
Anyway, my bills are paid today and I'm ready to rock and roll with you. I hope you're having a great day. It's Friday, the sun is shining, it's warm, and I'm in shorts. Nothing better than that.
Thanks for reading.
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@celticeagle (189833)
• Boise, Idaho
21 May 16
I am on a fixed income also. I have digital cable and both layers of stations as well as two DVRS and have all three together. That's internet, cable and telephone. The telephone has gone to Comcast I noticed. I know that my cable does have to hike their prices occasionally. I understand that this happens because they have to pay more for some stations. They all want a good amount for their services. I really don't know what the answer is to having it all work out so everyone is happy. I know I couldn't do without my cable.
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@celticeagle (189833)
• Boise, Idaho
22 May 16
@just4him ...Ghee, what a nice one to have around. Too bad you don't have someone close to you who is more positive and a help to you. Sounds like he has some odd ideas. Doesn't sound like he cares about your writing enough to read it for himself. That is so sad. A family should stand behind you and not put you down and try to get you to quit doing the things that you enjoy.
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@celticeagle (189833)
• Boise, Idaho
23 May 16
@just4him ...Glad he isn't real bad. I would just set him down and tell you enjoy this, it isn't going to stop and you would appreciate less of the negative from him.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
22 May 16
@celticeagle He's a good kid, but just doesn't like me spending any time writing, not even on here. When I told him what I made on here last month, he was quick to say he made that in one day on his job. A jab of course to the fact I don't work.
We had some 'words' a couple days ago about the way he puts me down.
However, on the whole, he's not bad and we get along well.
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@Drosophila (16568)
• Ireland
22 May 16
good to hear your bills are paid, btw skype an internet call provider works really great in terms of cost. You can call anyone unlimited in the world for like $10 a month.
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@Drosophila (16568)
• Ireland
23 May 16
@just4him there's a Skype subscription that let you call world wide landline and mobiles for hardly anything at all. I use that to call friends and family who's not on Skype
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
23 May 16
@Drosophila I had that, but when I lost my job I couldn't afford it so had to give up the Skype number. I still have my Skype account for PC to PC which is completely free, but I don't get hardly any action on it.
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@Juliaacv (56258)
• Canada
21 May 16
We have DSL but thru the company that I work for, so I get a 10 dollar discount. Which is about a third of my monthly charge. My phone bill is separate, but even if I cancelled that, the cost for a dry loop, which is what you need when you have DSL but no active home phone line, is only $5 with our company.
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@Juliaacv (56258)
• Canada
21 May 16
@just4him We do not sell dial up. DSL stands for dedicated second line, the internet travels over the phone line but you can still talk on the phone while being online. I prefer it, and it is superior over cable internet as cable internet is a shared service, meaning that the speed is shared with those in your neighbourhood and during peak times the speed drops.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
21 May 16
there are alot of big mergers going on, and from being inside one (not the 2 mentioned) I am NOT liking what I am seeing in terms of integrity and quality for the customers
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
21 May 16
@just4him it was there but prob buried on the bill somewhere
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
21 May 16
@Jessicalynnt I never read the bill. I paid online before the bill came out. I didn't see anything about it on the site except that they were merging.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
22 May 16
I'm not quite in shorts yet, but maybe tomorrow as we have a bear of a job planned. I use Charter for my phone, internet and tv service. That's not great either especially since it went up after a two-year plan. I think it would get lowered if we consider dropping one of the services, then and only then they may offer us a discounted price. Our bill is about 115.00 or so each month and the past several months I've been behind.
I've been pretty busy lately. In fact, I should be calling potential customers not playing here. I could probably find something on your page about your upcoming move and where you expect you'll move to. Would you want to tell me a few titles to look for?
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
28 May 16
@just4him I figured you probably already wrote about your upcoming move elsewhere, but maybe not. I thought if you mentioned something about it on a post about something else entirely, then I wouldn't know what 'titles' to look at. That's what my comment about titles was referring to.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
28 May 16
@MarshaMusselman That was Very Busy Day
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
22 May 16
For all three, that's not a bad price. It would be a lot higher here. You lost me about titles.
I won't know for a while yet about where I'll be moving too. I hope there will be options. In the meantime, I'm cleaning and getting everything ready for the move.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
23 May 16
I didn't know either until I started looking into it.
@LeaPea2417 (40029)
• Toccoa, Georgia
23 May 16
That is good that you changed services to save money. Those services are sneaky and raise your bill a little by little in hopes you wont notice it.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
23 May 16
I believe that. I had the lowest bill this year from my utility bill because summer is setting in.
@Tampa_girl7 (54715)
• United States
21 May 16
I hope that you enjoy your new service.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
21 May 16
I hope so too because I'm stuck with it for at least a year, but I have heard good things about AT&T, so we'll see.
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
20 May 16
My ISP charged $10 more last month than it was before. There was no notice at all, they just did it because they could. When I started, it was $50 for phone and Internet bundled. Now it is $136+. It is the same service. We do not even get cable. I just got the new bill and it is still $136 plus some change.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
21 May 16
@just4him In the particular spot where I live, the only other choice is even more expensive than the one I have. We changed over to the cheaper one that everyone here seems to have but then the price kept increasing. There are other options closer to town but in this park, there are only two.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
23 May 16
I had to give it a time out today, but it's doing better now.
@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
20 May 16
Those companies do seem to think they can raise their prices whenever they want to and no one will say anything. One of these days these will find they don't have as many customers as they once did because no one wants to pay those high prices.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
20 May 16
Everything is going up except the money we make. There needs to be a change somewhere, so I made the change with the Internet. We'll see what else changes in the near future. I'm sure there will be with the move I'm about to make.
@CRK109 (14556)
• United States
20 May 16
When I was ready to move, it just so happened that my last contract with Verizon had ended, so I was able to work another good contract with them. If that hadn't happened, I'd be changing the way I do things, too. You're right, they do think we're made of money. Thankfully, there are other more feasible ways to get the connections we need.
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@dwstory (1276)
• Roseburg, Oregon
22 May 16
We have AT&T and will get it here when we move into our house. It is the cheapest that we could find before.
