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Originally Posted by mrdills
I would like to see your breakdown on this one................
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I worked this out on a spreadsheet, but will try to translate it into understandable text. All numbers are based on quotes from the related companies and include taxes and fees.
Assuming 2 DVRs and 2 other Digital Boxes,
Comcast Triple Play comes to 179.23/month in the first year, 195.28/month in the second and 211.33 per month in the third.
Getting into the details of all the annually increasing individual monthly cost would make this way too hard to follow in text but the
total monthly cost for Comcast High Speed Internet, Direct TV (same TV boxes as Comcast with equal or more channels) and Ooma (assuming $5.00 per month in tax, although I am told it is lower)
are $115.83, $165 and $180.
When you do the comparison it comes to a savings of $63.40 per month in the first year, $30.28 per month in the second and $31.33 per month in the third year.
Annual savings are $760.74, $363.30 and $375.90 for a total of $1,499.94.
I purchased the Omma unit for $200 on sale and forgot
to subtract that from the savings (but all things remaining equal) there is at least a $350 annual savings from year three on, plus the
net savings of about $1,300 over the first three years (after including the initial cost of the phone unit in this calculation
).
By the way, you do not have to keep your computer on for the phone to work.
Hope this helps!