How much do you pay for Phone/Internet/TV?

[YeOldeStonecat]

4...one is on a tiny plan, it's just the secondary weekend hotline phone.

 

[Markverhyden]

VZ is expensive! I've got a business AT&T account, 25gb/month, 6 numbers (3 actual phones, 3 data devices) and I only pay some $270/month.

 

[HCHTech]

VZ is expensive!

Boy howdy. Unfortunately, they have the best infrastructure in my area. I have local friends (hard to believe, I know) that have AT&T and TMobile - they put up with bad signal to save $. My business is running on these phones, so I don't really have the option to make that trade.

 

[Mike McCall]

I work from home, so I don't have to pay business rates for internet. I get 250Mbps for $60mo. I get 2 phone numbers from Ooma, one I use for personal & one is my business number for $15. I put up an outside antenna for local stations (about 30), and use a Roku for everything else. I have my cell through Consumer Cellular and pay $20 for unlimited minutes, and $5 for unlimited textx & 250MB of data. I don't use much data. The next data plan up from mine is 3GB for $10mo.

 

[Markverhyden]

Boy howdy. Unfortunately, they have the best infrastructure in my area. I have local friends (hard to believe, I know) that have AT&T and TMobile - they put up with bad signal to save $. My business is running on these phones, so I don't really have the option to make that trade.

My area is part of their home turf. So I always thought they would have the best coverage. 6-7 years ago I performed a WLAN (4G, etc) survey for a company at area malls. Close to 25 sites from Southern NH to RI, west to Springfield and Hartford, CT. Surprisingly, on average, VZ ranked last. AT&T was first, Team Mobile second.

 

[HCHTech]

6-7 years ago I performed a WLAN (4G, etc) survey for a company at area malls.

Wow - valuable data. What tool(s) did you use to perform that survey? I've tried a couple of cell map apps on my phone, but I always assumed there was equipment out there for that purpose...

 

[Markverhyden]

Wow - valuable data. What tool(s) did you use to perform that survey? I've tried a couple of cell map apps on my phone, but I always assumed there was equipment out there for that purpose...

Actually it was pretty low tech. This was a survey for the company that was handling Toys R Us popup stores networking. Someone came up with the idea of doing these for the holiday season. Everything staged at regional distribution centers in trailers. Everything, fixtures, registers, stock, etc. All that happened was an electrician had to build out some quad outlets on the sales floor.

The ISP would be whatever wireless provider was best, router is a AT&T NetGate 8300 up at the cash wrap.

The survey was using USB devices from AT&T, VZ, and Sprint (TM) with a Netbridge cellular router. They had a target list of properties, mall and store space, which we went to one after the other. Just ran speedtest.net or speakeasy at the front of each space for each provider, log up, down, 2G/3G and db.

When I went looking for a doc it was actually 5 years ago.

 

[HCHTech]

Actually it was pretty low tech.

I wish it were easier for consumers to get this kind of comparison data for their area. I'm sure the wireless vendors don't have any incentive to provide that kind of micro detail. They're more than happy to trumpet that they have the BEST COVERAGE*, but I'll bet the fine print underneath each of their claims would be interesting reading.

 

[ohio_grad_06]

Since I do my stuff from home, my breakdown is this.

Spectrum 100mbps=$40 a month, might go up to 50.
Direct TV Now(streaming)=$35 a month
Netflix=$10.99 a month
Hulu(not tv package)=$11.99

I've got some other package from a smaller streaming service that's 5.99 a month. So I pay nearly as much as I did for cable, I think $103 or $105 is what I came up with,but I'm getting exactly what I want. Plus I could always dump netflix and or hulu and save like 20 a month instantly. Would pay Direct TV Now a little extra for DVR, supposedly that feature is due out this year. We have an antennae for local stations. Looks like I could pick up a box for under 100 to attach a hard drive to and record over the air shows.

I want to say our residential cell phones cost about 200 a month with verizon for 3 lines and unlimited data. Not terrible when you figure device payments on 2 of the phones are around 40 a month total.

 

[Mr. Ingram's Computer Repair & Shoppe]

I just switched over to ATT, they are coming to install on the 15th.
75down 5up for $40
1 phone line $30

after taxes and garbage fees its right at $80.

SO much happier!

 

[jzukerman]

Spectrum Biz Class (coax) Data, 60Meg/5Meg, $99.95/month.
CallCentric SIP lines, 1 toll-free, 2 standard 10 digit numbers, $16.00 + change per month, plus whatever outgoing minutes used at like $0.02/min.
One backup SIP line from VoIP.MS, $0.99/month plus whatever incoming/outgoing minutes used at like $0.02/min.
I have a VPS at Linode that runs my Asterisk box, so there's that cost of $10 a month. But it runs other services too (SC host namely).
1 cell phone plan with US Cellular, $80 and change/month, Unlimited talk/txt, 2GB data (I'm on WiFi mostly so I rarely go over that). Thinking about switching to Google Fi as they backhaul with USCC, T-Mobile & Sprint which would save me like $30/month (although I'd have to buy a phone so maybe that's a wash).