[jrref]

You make good points. I
Know many of these IPTV services have been shut down. Their web site looks legit. It would be interesting to know how they are getting and providing service.

[MorTech]

Smell test? does it smell like facts or assertions? What does that smell like? They have a 3day free trial (or buy one month) and if they are found to be illegal then the service goes away...if it proves unreliable then look elsewhere. This ain't that difficult! It is always best to pay for any of these internet services with a virtual card off your credit card so you can turn off the billing. Virtual Card is your friend

Google Freeplay is free...So is Roku Channel...Youtube is free (Not Youtube TV...what marketing genius thought naming the subscription channel "Youtube TV" was a good idea?) and there are billions of videos on Youtube. There are 100s of free channel apps to spelunk. It is shocking to me that anyone would pay $300 a month for garbage TV! ...And at that money, they still throw retarded commercials at you as well!

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by MorTech

No they don't...And they are not illegal.

$10 / month is a bargain.

Apollo Group TV

Xfinity NOW Internet 100mb - $30...Apollo TV - $10...Google Freeplay on Google TV / Google TV stream device - Free. 40 buck a month for all these junk TV channels is a good deal. Add additional subscription services if needed.

I would use MagicJack for a phone landline if needed.

Apollo itself isn't illegal, but it provides illegal content. Sometimes links to content that is dangerous and can result in identity theft and financial scams.

Is Apollo TV Legal? A Complete Legal Overview 2024 - iptvApolloGrouptv

[Flyers999]

My Xfinity plan $196.00
My Xfinity services $236.00
TV: Ultimate TV $90.00
Includes Limited Basic, Sports & News, Kids & Family,
Entertainment, 50+ Additional Channels, Streampix, HD
Programming, and 20 Hours of DVR Service.
Internet: Gigabit $116.00
Voice: Xfinity Voice $30.00
Unlimited Local and Long Distance Calls. International Calling Included To Several Countries With Others Available At An Additional Charge.
3 Product Discount: -$40.00
-----------------------------------------
Add ons
DVR Service $10.00
Starz $10.99
3 Premiums $32.00
Max, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, TMC
Peacock Premium Included $0.00 At No Extra Cost ($7.99/mo. Value) For 24 Months Then Regular Rates Apply If You Choose To Continue Service. The end date of your promotion is Jun 25, 2025.
More Sports & Ent Pkg $9.95
-------------------------------------------------------
Equipment & services
TV Box + Remote $20.00 Qty 2 @ $10.00 each
Internet/Voice Equipment Rental $15.00
----------------------------------------------------------
Service fees
Broadcast TV Fee $29.60
Regional Sports Fee $12.15
---------------------------------------------
Taxes, fees and other charges
Other charges $3.35
Regulatory Cost Recovery $1.59
Federal Universal Service Fund $1.76
-------------------------------------------------
Taxes & government fees
Sales Tax $2.45
State Communications Services Tax $14.39
Local Communications Services Tax $4.71
911 Fees $0.40
---------------------
Total Xfinity Bill: $360.99


In addition I also have $64.67 of non-xfinity TV monthly charges including:
Netflix $24.51
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra $16.15
YouTube Premium $13.99 (no commercials)
The Great Courses Plus $10.00 (via ROKU)
-----------------------------------
My Monthly Total is $360.99 + $64.67 = $425.65

The way I figure it, I could drop Xfinity (except for internet), and get all of these services somewhere else, but if I succeeded to get everything that I get with Xfinity, the cost savings wouldn't be that much. (as long as it’s legal)

Right?

Of course I could cut out services like Cinemax and Showtime, but I don’t want to do that.

[biker1]

QuantumFiber: $40 per month for internet
YouTubeTV: $41 per month (sharing the plan)
Netflix: $15 per month
Amazon Prime: $10 per month, IIRC

Originally Posted by Flyers999

My Xfinity plan $196.00
My Xfinity services $236.00
TV: Ultimate TV $90.00
Includes Limited Basic, Sports & News, Kids & Family,
Entertainment, 50+ Additional Channels, Streampix, HD
Programming, and 20 Hours of DVR Service.
Internet: Gigabit $116.00
Voice: Xfinity Voice $30.00
Unlimited Local and Long Distance Calls. International Calling Included To Several Countries With Others Available At An Additional Charge.
3 Product Discount: -$40.00
-----------------------------------------
Add ons
DVR Service $10.00
Starz $10.99
3 Premiums $32.00
Max, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, TMC
Peacock Premium Included $0.00 At No Extra Cost ($7.99/mo. Value) For 24 Months Then Regular Rates Apply If You Choose To Continue Service. The end date of your promotion is Jun 25, 2025.
More Sports & Ent Pkg $9.95
-------------------------------------------------------
Equipment & services
TV Box + Remote $20.00 Qty 2 @ $10.00 each
Internet/Voice Equipment Rental $15.00
----------------------------------------------------------
Service fees
Broadcast TV Fee $29.60
Regional Sports Fee $12.15
---------------------------------------------
Taxes, fees and other charges
Other charges $3.35
Regulatory Cost Recovery $1.59
Federal Universal Service Fund $1.76
-------------------------------------------------
Taxes & government fees
Sales Tax $2.45
State Communications Services Tax $14.39
Local Communications Services Tax $4.71
911 Fees $0.40
---------------------
Total Xfinity Bill: $360.99


In addition I also have $64.67 of non-xfinity TV monthly charges including:
Netflix $24.51
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra $16.15
YouTube Premium $13.99 (no commercials)
The Great Courses Plus $10.00 (via ROKU)
-----------------------------------
My Monthly Total is $360.99 + $64.67 = $425.65

The way I figure it, I could drop Xfinity (except for internet), and get all of these services somewhere else, but if I succeeded to get everything that I get with Xfinity, the cost savings wouldn't be that much. (as long as it’s legal)

Right?

Of course I could cut out services like Cinemax and Showtime, but I don’t want to do that.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Flyers999

My Xfinity plan $196.00
My Xfinity services $236.00
TV: Ultimate TV $90.00
Includes Limited Basic, Sports & News, Kids & Family, Entertainment, 50+ Additional Channels, Streampix, HD Programming, and 20 Hours of DVR Service.
Internet: Gigabit $116.00
Voice: Xfinity Voice $30.00

3 Product Discount: -$40.00
-----------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------
Equipment & services
TV Box + Remote $20.00 Qty 2 @ $10.00 each
Internet/Voice Equipment Rental $15.00
----------------------------------------------------------
Service fees
Broadcast TV Fee $29.60
Regional Sports Fee $12.15
---------------------------------------------
Taxes, fees and other charges
Other charges $3.35
Regulatory Cost Recovery $1.59
Federal Universal Service Fund $1.76
-------------------------------------------------
Taxes & government fees
Sales Tax $2.45
State Communications Services Tax $14.39
Local Communications Services Tax $4.71
911 Fees $0.40
---------------------
Total Xfinity Bill: $360.99

In addition I also have $64.67 of non-xfinity TV monthly charges including:
Netflix $24.51
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra $16.15
YouTube Premium $13.99 (no commercials)
The Great Courses Plus $10.00 (via ROKU)
-----------------------------------
My Monthly Total is $360.99 + $64.67 = $425.65

Your cost savings would be pretty significant. First, change your internet from 1G to the $50 plan. It might start you out at 100mbps and they'll bump you up in a month to 200mbps "no charge" (they do it for everyone). That's more than you'll need unless you're doing professional digital stuff, or own a shared game server.

So just by reducing your internet service speed, you'll be saving $66. Keeping everything else exactly the same.

NEXT...
Do you really need 4K Netflix with no ads? You're paying $20-something for that. For only $7 you can get HD, with some ads (they're really not a big deal, a minute or less, once every 15 minutes for some stuff, once every half hour for others).

NEXT...

Buy your router and modem. You'll save maybe $50 your first year, and $180+ each subsequent year, by not having to ever pay rent on it again.

You're paying all that, and only getting "Basic Limited" TV (50 channels) for $90? Dood. My condolences. Seriously, that's pretty horrible. Get YouTubeTV, or the Sling Blue with their sports-plus option, or Hulu+ LiveTV, and you'll get over 100 channels each. With Hulu, you get the added bonus of Hulu itself, plus Disney+ in the package. Each of these options are under $100 after taxes.

[Flyers999]

Thanks to the last two posters for their suggestions. I'm not sure when I'll make the change, but I'll continue to mull it over.

As far as sharing the YouTubeTV plan, I currently don't have anyone to share it with, but it might be tricky seeing how already I have a YouTube channel that I post nonsense on, along with YouTube Premium. They know who I am and where I live.

I don't want to lower my internet speed. I do a lot of Zoom and Zoom-like stuff with the company that I work for part time. I need it fast and reliable. Quantum fiber is available (940bps) at $75 /month, but then I'd have to change my comcast emails. I'm sure they'd let me keep them, but I'm sure there would be a charge. There's also the home phone number that works better than my cell phone numbers.

I have no interest in watching commercials on Netflix.

[jrref]

Originally Posted by Flyers999

Thanks to the last two posters for their suggestions. I'm not sure when I'll make the change, but I'll continue to mull it over.

As far as sharing the YouTubeTV plan, I currently don't have anyone to share it with, but it might be tricky seeing how already I have a YouTube channel that I post nonsense on, along with YouTube Premium. They know who I am and where I live.

I don't want to lower my internet speed. I do a lot of Zoom and Zoom-like stuff with the company that I work for part time. I need it fast and reliable. Quantum fiber is available (940bps) at $75 /month, but then I'd have to change my comcast emails. I'm sure they'd let me keep them, but I'm sure there would be a charge. There's also the home phone number that works better than my cell phone numbers.

I have no interest in watching commercials on Netflix.

Comcast will let you keep your email accounts at no charge.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Flyers999

Thanks to the last two posters for their suggestions. I'm not sure when I'll make the change, but I'll continue to mull it over.

As far as sharing the YouTubeTV plan, I currently don't have anyone to share it with, but it might be tricky seeing how already I have a YouTube channel that I post nonsense on, along with YouTube Premium. They know who I am and where I live.

I don't want to lower my internet speed. I do a lot of Zoom and Zoom-like stuff with the company that I work for part time. I need it fast and reliable. Quantum fiber is available (940bps) at $75 /month, but then I'd have to change my comcast emails. I'm sure they'd let me keep them, but I'm sure there would be a charge. There's also the home phone number that works better than my cell phone numbers.

I have no interest in watching commercials on Netflix.

For Zoom 200mbps is plenty, unless you're /hosting/ the server that everyone else is connecting to.

You don't have to change your comcast e-mails. Your e-mail is yours. It can't ever be recycled and used by anyone else, so they won't remove it. The only time I've ever "lost" access to an e-mail address was when I had a snet.net e-mail. SNET ceased to exist and eventually all snet.net e-mail addresses were retired and eliminated completely. I still have a comcast.net e-mail from when we had comcast up north. That account was closed when we moved down here and I opened a new account with a different account name and e-mail. I don't even use the one that comes with my Florida xfinity account, and the xfinity bill gets e-mailed to my gmail address.

Edited to add: I lied. I had over 10 AOL e-mail addresses (loved those free trial CDs that came in the mail every week, heh) and a Prodigy e-mail address. They might possibly still exist, but I've long forgotten their passwords and stopped caring about them by around 1997.

[jrref]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

For Zoom 200mbps is plenty, unless you're /hosting/ the server that everyone else is connecting to.

You don't have to change your comcast e-mails. Your e-mail is yours. It can't ever be recycled and used by anyone else, so they won't remove it. The only time I've ever "lost" access to an e-mail address was when I had a snet.net e-mail. SNET ceased to exist and eventually all snet.net e-mail addresses were retired and eliminated completely. I still have a comcast.net e-mail from when we had comcast up north. That account was closed when we moved down here and I opened a new account with a different account name and e-mail. I don't even use the one that comes with my Florida xfinity account, and the xfinity bill gets e-mailed to my gmail address.

Edited to add: I lied. I had over 10 AOL e-mail addresses (loved those free trial CDs that came in the mail every week, heh) and a Prodigy e-mail address. They might possibly still exist, but I've long forgotten their passwords and stopped caring about them by around 1997.

Just be aware, Comcast is under no obligation to keep your e-mail active after you leave them. I haven't seen anyone's Comcast e-mail deactivated but up north, other cable companies disable your e-mail the second they disconnect you. There could be a day where Comcast decides to remove all e-mail accounts of non-subscribers to save money. Your e-mail storage is not free for them.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by jrref

Just be aware, Comcast is under no obligation to keep your e-mail active after you leave them. I haven't seen anyone's Comcast e-mail deactivated but up north, other cable companies disable your e-mail the second they disconnect you. There could be a day where Comcast decides to remove all e-mail accounts of non-subscribers to save money. Your e-mail storage is not free for them.

But, isn't that true for any free email service?

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

But, isn't that true for any free email service?

But Comcast is not a free email service. Comcast is provides email capability to its paying customers and, so far, allows ex-customers who no longer pay for the service to keep the capability.

Gmail/yahoo/hotmail/etc provide free email service to anyone who signs up. While they could discontinue service to any or all whenever they like, the only way to become an ex-customer is to delete your account.

[jrref]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

But Comcast is not a free email service. Comcast is provides email capability to its paying customers and, so far, allows ex-customers who no longer pay for the service to keep the capability.

Gmail/yahoo/hotmail/etc provide free email service to anyone who signs up. While they could discontinue service to any or all whenever they like, the only way to become an ex-customer is to delete your account.

Thank you! LOL

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by DARFAP

Yes, after 90 days you can become a "new" customer again with them, if so desired, to get the latest promotions.

Correct, we cancel every fall at our family lake cottage up north in October and then become new customers again in early May. They always try to get us to put the service on seasonal hold for a small monthly fee, but then we would loose the new customer rate so we decline.

[Packer Fan]

Originally Posted by MorTech

For cell phone service use Tello Mobile (T-mobile network)...$25 full up.
Unlimited talk/text with 5GB data - $14/month.

Tello is good, Mint is better - Right now $180 per YEAR for unlimited on T-Mobile, if you pay with your amex (sign up for the deal with Amex) they give you $45 cash back so effectively $135 for a year of unlimited. When we are overseas, you get a minternational pass that is $20 for 10 days of data(10GB), talk, and text. Can't beat it.

Full disclosure - I actually keep a second line on US Mobile with 2 GBdata for $10 a month so I can access verizon and ATT if I need to (mostly out west travel where T-mobile not as good).

Frankly, if you are paying more than $30 a month for unlimited phone plans, you are a bit off.

What the OP is paying for internet and cable is insane, it is good he is asking. It actually made me question the $61 I was paying a month for internet and am switching to quantum fiber for $35.

To be honest, I am not sure I understand why anyone has a "home phone". My home phone travels in my pocket.