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Originally Posted by Catlady
My Spectrum bill was $170/mo for TV and Internet, without any of premium channels. When I canceled over the phone, the price for Internet only was quoted as $70, but when I returned my cable box in person a few weeks later, the agent dropped to price to $50/mo for a year if I added Internet phone service. Which I did, with no intention of ever using it.
Sling TV with two add-ons is $35/mo; Hulu is currently $1/mo because of the promo. I already had Prime Video. So I'm saving $85/mo--that's a lot to play around with if I want to add channels or rent video now and then.
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My Spectrum bill before I cancelled it was $157/mo for internet and cable. I had wheeled and dealed last year to get that reduced rate. I basically had the Silver package but without the premium channels, but I had digi Tier 1, and only one cable box/DVR. They gave me a $30 discount for 12 months, and since that was about to expire my monthly bill would have increased to $187. Ouch!!! I tried to wheel and deal again, but they wouldn't budge much and the best they would give me was $177/mo. I started out with Spectrum about 3-1/2 years ago and had the internet phone package to reduce the rate until I finally dropped it last year. It sucked so bad you couldn't use it anyway and they were starting to charge me for it. My internet without cable TV is now $70.99/mo plus taxes and fees which comes to about $75/mo total for 200 Mbps (the slowest speed they offer now). I got Hulu with Live TV for $39.99/mo, added the Enterainment package for $7.99/mo and the no commercials option for $3.99/mo, for a total of about $56/mo. That comes to about $131/mo for TV and internet combined, but that also includes the Hulu streaming and on Demand service which was costing me about $8.50/mo, so I'll save $177 + $8.50 - $131 = $54.50/mo and have about the same services and channels as I had before. I also have Amazon Prime Video, but to be honest, Amazon charges extra for almost every TV show or movie I want to watch. I also have the Britbox option at $7.99/mo plus tax. So I have plenty of things to watch.
BTW, I'll probably drop Hulu's no commercials option as it is not worth the $$$. They have so many gotchas built into it that very few streams actually are commercial free. Live TV of course is exempted so plenty of commercials. Any on demand streams provided directly by networks via Hulu are also exempted. Only the on demand streams of old TV shows and movies provided via Hulu itself are commercial free, and even then they can still have a few. So far I have found one show that was commercial free in the dozens I have watched.