In my neck of the woods, Time Warner has a monopoly on high speed Internet. The only real competition is DSL, which doesn't come close to my bandwidth requirements.
Verizon is moving into the region and running fiber optic to every house. They plan to provide an alternative to Time Warner. But so far the roll out has been pretty slow.
I called Verizon tonight to check on availability in my area. Unfortunately, there is none. Which means Time Warner remains my only option.
Since I was talking to Verizon, I decided to right-size my cell phone bill. Verizon recently dropped their prices. Also, I have a 3GB plan and never use more than .5GB, so I dropped the plan to 2GB and will monitor my usage and consider going to 1GB later. Finally, I asked if I qualify for any promotional discounts - and I did! All together? I dropped my two smart phone cell bill from $144 per month to $109 a month. That is $410 per year!
Getting a smaller cell phone bill wasn't part of my cable cutting plan - but I'll take it! And add it to my cable savings, totally my monthly savings with this project at $100 per month so far!
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