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What I've been seeing with Quantum is when you sign up, you lock in a price and although there have been some minor pricing adjustments in the past year, your price remains the same. In fact, about 4 months ago, Quantum raised their lower tier prices $5 and lowered their upper tier prices by $5. My neighbor who had 1GBs service, upper tier, his price was reduced by $5. No one I know of in the lower tier was raised. Internet only service providers don't have as much overhead pressure as cable companies do so no matter what happens in the future, your cost should be the most stable with an internet ISP.

The trend I see is many here in the Villages with a choice of providers stay with cable for many reasons. Much if it is they don't want to make the effort to change to streaming and fiber either because they are unable or they feel it's too much work. They tend to stay the "status quo" until something pushes them. Like, neighbors and or friends switching or the cable company giving them an increase and not negotiating a lower price. Initially, I thought it was an "age demographic" "thing" but I'm get more referrals from Villagers in their 80's who have already switched to all streaming and are very computer savy. Many use traditional Roku or Firestick devices, some AppleTV and a lot using IPTV devices such as Apollo TV. I also, see Villagers with newer 4K HDR or Dolby Vision TVs with streamers not set up properly for the higher resolution content and watching 1080P. When I fix this, they are amazed at the difference in the picture quality. But you have to subscribe to streaming serivices that have this higher resolution content to get it. Not all cost money, such as regular YouTube has a LOT of 4k and HDR content by default and Amazon Prime has more and more these days. YouTube TV has some 4k content, but not much yet. So, at the end of the day, we here in the Villages are very fortunate to have a choice of providers and although I doubt Quantum or Centric will get to Bradford, ChittyChatty and those areas south of 44 that were missed any time soon, I can tell you Quantum is expanding at an "alarming" pace up in the Bonita, Liberty Park and those surrounding areas which is nice to see.