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Originally Posted by rsmurano
When companies start losing customers that’s when they start making deals, it’s not the other way around. All of these cable/internet/netflix/amazon subscribers never want their quarterly report to state they lost customers or their stock will go down. I’m paying $40 a month for 1.2Gbps speed where xfinity wanted $150 when I was their customer at renewal time. Spectrum offers that same price today if you move your phones to their mobile plan. There are deals out there.
As for good tv, nothing good is free. Roku is just a device that gives you crap tv stations just like any other device like Apple TV 4K (preferred over Roku), firestick, chromecast, and other devices. You will pay for good tv channels and sometimes you can pay more than what cable tv costs because you are buying several packages instead of 1 service.
IPTV has been out for years. You can get thousands of channels but you better have vpn or you could get caught.
I have always made deals with vendors in this area for decades, they don’t want to lose you as a customer.
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Normally, I would agree with you but from what's being reported, It appears the cable companies don't want to operate at a loss. So, giving people a "deal" that is below their cost, although it retains the customer, doesen't help their bottom line. Those days may be coming to an end. As you stated, they use their cell phone business to get you to be a customer because that's a part where they can make money. They give you a discount on the internet service for a year or so to get you as a customer since they know you can easily get the same cell phone service at many providers for the same price with a better plan.
As far as Roku TV being "junk" TV, the point is it may be "junk" to you but many Villagers only watch a small segment of TV and may not care about commercials so they don't necessarily need to pay the price for YouTubeTV or Hulu or others. When switching to streaming it's alway best to write down the TV channels you watch all the time then check to see how many RokuTV and or other providers have for free vs just getting a "full service" TV package. Amazon Fire TV is also popular and good.
When you are talking about internet service, just remember cable internet is fine for most people here in the Villages expecially if that's all you can get. Where it gets "dicey" is when you have to "play" around with them every year to get a fair price. Not everyone here in the Villages has the ability and or courage to negotiate with them and end up just paying full price. If you can get Fiber, it's something you probably want to do especially if you are what I call a network "geek" because cable internet is not the same as fiber because of the technology.
Hope this puts things more into perspective.