Cutting Cable

My Time Warner cable bill is $250 per month. For that, I get Internet, TV, and two telephone lines. That seems like a lot of money to me, so, I am taking actions to cut my bill. I will chronicle my activities in this blog.

I called Time Warner and asked them to reduce my bill. They said they couldn't. That's OK because I am going to reduce it myself! Cable companies made their fortunes being monopolies, but today they aren't needed at all!

My first step was to order a Ooma telephone device for $110 at Amazon. Someday I will write a blog for how to have a good Ooma experience. So far my experience has been excellent. I plugged the ooma into my Internet, plugged a phone into ooma, did a little bit of web site configuring, and was done.

I pay over $70 per month for two telephone lines. With Ooma, all I pay are the taxes - $3.50 per month.

Today, I issued the request to have my home phone number switched to Ooma. The request cost $40. It can take a month for the request to process.

Once the request is finished, I will be able to drop one phone line from my cable service. I have $150 invested in the ooma. I figure I will break even in five months. After five months I will be saving $32 per month!

If this is ooma is successful, I will order a second ooma for the second line. You can run a second line to one ooma if you want. But my second line goes to an Inlaw apartment, so, they will need their own device. Once both Ooma are installed I will have knocked $70 per month from my bill!

I am looking forward to cutting my cable bill. Right now it is $250 so I am going to keep chipping away at it until I can get it as cheap as possible!