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How I Cut My Time Warner Cable Bill By 33%

Posted by timothy on from the now-how-much-would-you-pay? dept.

lpress writes "I was at a Time Warner Cable (TWC) store returning a router, when I asked what my new monthly bill would be. The answer — $110 — surprised me, so I asked a few questions and ended up with the same service for $76.37. Check out my conversation with their representative to see what was said, then do the same yourself."

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  1. Only works if you have viable alternatives by rsilvergun · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And the Cable companies track on a per person / per neighborhood basis whether you do or not. I was paying $75/mo just for internet at one point because there was no DSL in my neighborhood. My buddy got the same service for $55/mo, but he could jump ship to DSL because his house was newer. When I called to "cancel" they just called my bluff ala South Park

    Big Data is real and they use it to screw us.

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  2. Re:I cut my cable bill by 100% by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To cut it 100%, you'd have to drop internet and phone too...did you do that?

    I did. I needed to move a little over a year ago and decided I'd like to ditch cable entirely. I found a niche fiber provider in my area and limited my search of apartments to ones they served. 100mbps symmetric, under $40/mo and I don't miss a thing about cable.

  3. Re:I cut my cable bill by 100% by David+Jao · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Google Voice support ends on May 15. You can't pay to continue using it; the XMPP service (which Obihai requires) is simply being discontinued. http://blog.obihai.com/2013/10...