Good for you! That’s a significant savings.
We have Dish and it’s currently $50.00 a month for a reasonable package - and my Dish contact is superb.
We cannot receive OTA in our location due to our location on the side of a mountain and we are in the shadow of virtually every antenna in our valley. We cannot even receive local radio...
Only in the last half-year or so have we been able to receive internet faster than 1.5 MB and we now have 5 MB and it’s great.
I can’t imagine cutting the cable for us with our location and lack of access to OTA...
I understand; when if works for people, it’s a huge savings. We are apparently in a pretty ideal location for OTA, so we have a little antenna to bring in some stations.
But my brother is about 30 miles away and surrounded by hills and buildings that make it far from ideal for him.
What most of the proponent fail to see is that people in rural areas (outside of large cities), don’t have good high speed internet service available. Nor do cable companies service rural areas. Dish and DirecTV are what these citizens depend upon.
Although Dish and DirectTV say they offer internet service, in most cases this is still through a land line.
A relative had better internet connectivity on a mountain top in Haiti, with no running water and dependence on solar panels and a generator, than we have at our home just outside a large city. They used HughesNet. that can be costly.