On Monday, October 27, 2014 6:01:28 PM UTC-7, wrote:


When my wife adds in her cell phone bill it is almost a grand
a month.


WOW! a thousand a month???

On 10/27/14 11:43 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 19:51:24 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Monday, October 27, 2014 6:01:28 PM UTC-7, wrote:


When my wife adds in her cell phone bill it is almost a grand
a month.


WOW! a thousand a month???

She is paying the bill for the whole famdamily. Me kids and grandpa
but I shjould be free. I use about 3 minutes a month.on average.and
most are Verison to Verison (free).
I could save on the Dish bill by dropping the full boat package too.
WTF it is only money ;-)



Wow! I've got myself and four relatives on my cell bill with unlimited
talk and text and I think with all the various federal and state taxes
and fees, the monthly hit is just over $200. You must have a lot of
"data usage."

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Wife and I are now on prepaid Virgin Mobile service.
We pay $100.00 per year upfront.
If we get chatty, we can go online and add more on our accounts.
On the other hand, my wife hasn't used her hundred dollars the last couple of years so Virgin allows you to carry the balance to the new year if you top up the new hundred by the anniversary date.

Our Internet/cable tv/home phone add $158.00 per month.....and we feel that is expensive.

On 10/28/14 7:46 AM, True North wrote:
Wife and I are now on prepaid Virgin Mobile service.
We pay $100.00 per year upfront.
If we get chatty, we can go online and add more on our accounts.
On the other hand, my wife hasn't used her hundred dollars the last couple of years so Virgin allows you to carry the balance to the new year if you top up the new hundred by the anniversary date.

Our Internet/cable tv/home phone add $158.00 per month.....and we feel that is expensive.



So that's where all those Virgins went...they became *Mobile*

Cable is a huge rip off. In most markets, the cable companies have
bribed their way into being sole providers for an entire city or large
parts of it, and in this era of non-regulation, charge whatever the hell
they want. It's the 'Merican way, and apparently the Canadian way, too.

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A vote for any Republican is a vote AGAINST:

Social Security, Medicare, Minimum Wage, Fair Pay, Food Stamps, Clean
Air and Water, Modest Gun Regulations, Public Schools, Rebuilding
Infrastructure and Good Jobs, Women's Rights, Veterans’ Rights, LGBT
Rights, and, of course, Your Right to Vote.

On 10/28/2014 8:51 AM, BAR wrote:
In article ,
says...

On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:06:45 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/27/2014 9:25 AM, F*O*A*D erroneously repeats (over and over):

Don't confuse Harry with facts. He can't assimilate them.

He is "Factose Intolerant"

I am going to steal that phrase.


Mee too...

The city that I live in we have access to ATT Uverse, WOW, Comcast, Dish, Direct TV so there are choices at least in my home city.

On 10/29/14 11:35 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 05:27:46 +0000, RGrew176
wrote:


The city that I live in we have access to ATT Uverse, WOW, Comcast,
Dish, Direct TV so there are choices at least in my home city.

I have the choice of Comcast, Dish, DirectTV or the phone company that
swears it can send me TV/Internet over Cat 3 copper.
My DSL only runs about 10 meg but it does it all the timer, not like
Comcast that swings between 100 meg and zero. When I had comcast, my
error log file overflowed a couple times a week because of the number
of failed updates from my weather station. The connection is spotty at
best and customer service is lousy.


Our choices here are Comcast, DSL, and satellite. DSL is slow, and
several of my neighbors with Dish or the other one say satellite is
"flakey" when the weather is bad. Comcast is OK, but it does go down
whenever there is a power outage in our area, mainly because its cables
are carried on the main street utility poles, and not enough effort is
expended to chop down trees near those wires.

Comcast has "offshored" much of its telephone tech support. That sucks.

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On 10/29/14 12:23 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:39:45 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 10/29/14 11:35 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 05:27:46 +0000, RGrew176
wrote:


The city that I live in we have access to ATT Uverse, WOW, Comcast,
Dish, Direct TV so there are choices at least in my home city.

I have the choice of Comcast, Dish, DirectTV or the phone company that
swears it can send me TV/Internet over Cat 3 copper.
My DSL only runs about 10 meg but it does it all the timer, not like
Comcast that swings between 100 meg and zero. When I had comcast, my
error log file overflowed a couple times a week because of the number
of failed updates from my weather station. The connection is spotty at
best and customer service is lousy.


Our choices here are Comcast, DSL, and satellite. DSL is slow, and
several of my neighbors with Dish or the other one say satellite is
"flakey" when the weather is bad. Comcast is OK, but it does go down
whenever there is a power outage in our area, mainly because its cables
are carried on the main street utility poles, and not enough effort is
expended to chop down trees near those wires.

Comcast has "offshored" much of its telephone tech support. That sucks.

The main difference for me is the Dish breaks up during a big storm.
The Comcast cable stays down for weeks after the storm.
My neighbor even offered to share his fast Comcast connection with me
if he could use my slow DSL connection when Comcast was down.
They have 3 commercial accounts at my wife's club and their service is
no better than a single family residence,



Usually, when our cable goes down because of trees falling on the
electric wires, the cable comes back up shortly after our rinky-dink
electric co-op's contractors get the powerline wires back up.

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“There’s more idleness and abuse of government favors among the
economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.” -
Norman Mailer