What ever you decide if you go Cale or internet with either spectrum or xfinity the price will increase once your “initial contract” rate expires. I am not techie enough to go with internet streaming. I have spectrum, not very basic but not with lots of channels I won’t watch and with taxes my bill is about $150. I have internet with century link guaranteed for life with a landline $85/month. I like to push the all power on button on remote then guide and find what I want to see.

Great choices. If you can't entertain yourself with 113 channels, you need to get a life. The Ooma box is great. Buy one for around $80, port your home telephone number, and make all the calls you want for around $4 per month (the federal taxes). I prefer YouTube TV for their excellent unlimited cloud DVR and local channels, but Sling is a good choice if their channel mix suits your needs.

Check to see if spectrum is in your area, we’ve been here 3 years and have Comcast we thought about switching but when I called spectrum I was told their not in my area

Been here in Marsh Bend using Spectrum for internet only :

Spectrum internet 100mbs - $54.99/mo.
Netflix - $12.99/mo.
YouTube TV - $64.99/mo.
Disney+ - $3/mo. @ 36 mo.
HBO Max - $11.99/mo.
Amazon Prime - $13.99/mo.

Total - $162/mo.

Note: dropping Prime soon, HBO is a test drive for a year, YouTube TV is giving me all my Philly channels (still have PA home zip code) Disney+ was a steal for 3 bucks, Netflix is probably the most watched. I would like to knock off $30 of this total, but Netflix and YouTube TV are in for the long haul.

I believe you have access to the following in Pine Hills:

CenturyLink
- fiber optic cable to the house
- internet and their version of VoIP phone
- partnered with DirectTV for traditional "cable TV" programming

Spectrum
- coax cable for the last 50 feet to the house
- internet and traditional "cable TV" programming, as well as their version of VoIP phone

Comcast (aka Xfinity)
- coax cable for the last 50 feet to the house
- internet and traditional "cable TV" programming, as well as their version of VoIP phone

I don't think anyone can declare that one is "best". They all offer more internet bandwidth than you will need and there are lots of options for traditional cable TV programming content if you want to go that route. We use a couple of the streaming services (YouTube TV, Netflix, and Amazon Prime) so we only have internet access via CenturyLink. We still have Ooma VoIP phone service, from when I was working, for a "landline phone".

Ohiobuckeye
 

But is that $44. forever or does it go up every yr.?

Ohiobuckeye
 

Chrissy2231, you must got a special deal, I know 3 of my friends there that have Century & have had it for 8 yrs. now & their Century Bill, with Cable & Internet now runs about $186. a mo. Or is your Cable TV from another Company? Where I live now I have Frontier & my Cable & Internet is FREE because our $90. a mo. amenities pay for it. But you know if we get the wrong president elected I’m sure it’ll change!

Anything but Century Link. I had Spectrum at one time. Zero customer service on weekends. We'll fix it next Thursday. I was going to try DSL one more time because it's cheaper than Xfinity. Couldn't find the DSL signal in any of my phone outlets. Passed by several "experts" to other "exspurts" and finally the boss hung up on me and cancelled my account. Xfinity is more expensive, but it work consistently.

spectrum the bestgreat service response time had them since the start....

You don't need 100mbs speed to stream any of these things, unless you have multiple TV's running or you want to stream 4K. You can get a better price on a slower speed. You can also buy your own modem box and save the monthly rental charge from the cable company.

Good points UpNorth, I've been thinking about changing to my own modem as well.

I'm an avid online gamer, and I can somewhat justify the 100mbs. Usually I'm gaming and mrs. Is on Netflix.