re: Another Post to Cut the Cord (TV/Internet)

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(Wish Verizon or Google Fiber where in BR!)

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There's your answer. You are settling for less while wishing for more. My wife and I have discussed this many times. It's a cost/benefit analysis. Bottom line: We like cable TV and we keep our old AT&T phone line for emergencies. We are total electric and if the power goes out we still have an old phone that will work when nothing else will. So yes, we could save about 100 bucks a month by dropping Cox cable and and our land line but it's not worth it at least from our perspective to do so.

My perspective as an IT professional: As people continue to drop cable TV and these streaming options become increasingly popular, bandwidth is going to be clogged and performance is going to suffer while internet service prices increase as service providers have to spend more to increase bandwidth. Yes, fiber will create a new threshold of performance but it's going to take many years for a nationwide fiber network to be installed.