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Eliminate the overage charge rip-off! If I reach my limit, turn the dang thing off. How can they forcibly "sell" you something you don't want? Oh that's right, it's part of the take-it-or-leave-it deal they offer. One more reason to keep the cord CUT!
1 posted on 04/24/2016 5:00:48 PM PDT by Macoozie
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Eliminate the overage charge rip-off! If I reach my limit, turn the dang thing off.


Wouldn’t that stop your internet service, too?


2 posted on 04/24/2016 5:10:32 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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That's the bad thing. The cable company also provides the very Internet you need for streaming.

Since I live in an apt, I added the local channels to my internet service, because I couldn't find an antennae to save my life.

3 posted on 04/24/2016 5:11:20 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Rafael Cruz: Canadian-born, Cuban ancestry, ineligible for POTUS)
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You do realize that after a certain point, internet providers will begin restricting data plans to anyone that “cuts the cord”, right?

The big cable companies aren’t going down without a fight.


4 posted on 04/24/2016 5:12:38 PM PDT by Bratch
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TANSTAAFL


5 posted on 04/24/2016 5:12:42 PM PDT by bigbob
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Heck, when this archaic computer I’m using finally konks out, I’m seriously considering dumping the internet altogether. Already got rid of my dish, and I’m more than ready to ditch that second phone-line. No way I’m going to pay a cable-company for anything, as their high rates subsidize vile, left-wing networks I would never watch.


7 posted on 04/24/2016 5:29:44 PM PDT by greene66
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My ISP has a data cap but its actually never enforced.

You’d have stream so much to exceed it. I don’t think that’s possible as I’m a single person.

It could add up for a family though.


10 posted on 04/24/2016 5:38:02 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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Oh darn! They use all that technology and bandwidth and don't want to pay for it. Boo hoo.

And what about this crapola:

(perhaps by deploying an over-the-air antenna which should probably be part of any cord-cutter’s arsenal anyway)"

Arsenal?

So now deciding on the right mix of telco options is on a part with going to war!

"Intelligent consumer" is an oxymoron. Being primarily a consumer is inherently ignorant. Being an "intelligent consumer" is no different than being a "thoughtful tic-tac-toe player" or a "strong and healthy tiddlywinker".

12 posted on 04/24/2016 5:43:29 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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the net neutrality crap is also probably going to eliminate competitors to AT&T and Comcast...and so you see, the crony capitalists will continue to suck up to the government teat.

Until one day. A reckoning.


19 posted on 04/24/2016 6:19:30 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper (Just say no to HRC)
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There is no free lunch. Without the cord we are ultimately back to the 1960s. 3 networks, basically, and nothing else. But the truth and is that they are all the same anyway so why not?


20 posted on 04/24/2016 6:38:43 PM PDT by Brilliant
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Always read the small print


27 posted on 04/24/2016 10:54:01 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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