I can't understand why there would be a lot of complete cord cutting since often cable companies can provide high-speed internet connection at lower prices than telephone companies.
Unless everyone is using their cell phones to watch movies.
How sad if that is something that more and more people find acceptable. If so, they're going to have to eliminate the Oscar for cinematography.
Many people get a package deal (3 for $99.99 - cable, phone & Internet), and you can't break out only one of the options. So, yes, it does.
I believe that this chord cutting is simply Cable TV packages. The Cable TV companies are simply becoming Internet Service Providers. Phone companies too, I guess.
That's precisely the group.
The cord being cut is a virtual cord, not a physical coaxial or glass fiber cord. The cord is the TV portion of your cable service. You cancel that and receive your video over the internet — via YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, etc. You can put the cost of the canceled TV subscription towards a faster broadband connection.
Unless everyone is using their cell phones to watch movies.
That's certainly doable, and you don't have to watch the video on the phone's tiny screen. However, if the video content is coming over your phone's LTE connection, you'll need a big data allowance in your phone plan.
Some folks also get their landline phone service from the cable company. This is another cord to cut. Using, for example, Google Voice, you can run your landline phone service over the internet portion of your cable service.
If you cut both cords, the only one left is internet, and it's carrying your phone and TV as well as your web-surfing. That's more rational, because, in the end, phone, TV, and web-surfing are all just data.
If cable companies were smart they would allow us to buy and pay for the channels WE want... and I don't mean 'bundled crap' - like making us buy CNN if we just want FOX.
Control freak liberals run these companies - and they're running them right into the ground.