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Just, FYI, if you have been watching the financial news Xfinity and Spectrum and other cable companies are loosing customers way beyond initial expectations due to "cord cutters", changes in viewing habits, and people switching to Fiber and fixed Wireless internet services. Comcast (Xfinity) is looking at spinning off their TV and Internet business because of the steep decline. In fact, the FCC recently granted more spectrum to Verizon, AT&T and other carriers to expand their fixed wireless services.

We won't know what will happen and how soon any of this will impact customer's here in the Villages but keep a check on you cable bills because several people I recently signed up for Quantum Fiber have said their cable bill went up significantly and the re-negotiated "deal" was not very good. Most have moved their cell phones from cable to Visible, Consumer Cellular and other cell phone companies to get a better long term price that doesn't change and also dumped their cable and started using Roku or another streaming device to stream and moved to Quantum Fiber if they could get it. I spoke to a Quantum installer yesterday and he said they are all working overtime because of all the new orders. BTW, Roku TV which comes free with the device has a lot of channels including local TV which may be enough for most people vs getting YouTube or Hulu TV.

The point of this post is to be aware and keep an eye on your cable bill because they have been rasing their rates yet again becasue they are in trouble financially. Even if you "have a deal" for a specific amount of time, they can still raise fees and other parts of the bill while maintaining the cost of the service they comitted to you.

Interesting.