Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Savings Idea
The other discussions about saving money brought this to mind: phone, internet and TV. Right now Mom qualifies for an upgrade with Charter Comm. She can get all three of the above svcs for $99.95 per month for 12 months. After a year it goes to about $120. But we can downgrade then. She's probably paying over $60 per month now. Who's familiar with the phone bill from Bell? Is this a savings? Charter phone is free long distance 24/7 in US, Canada and Puerto Rico and has call waiting, voice mail and other stuff. She can keep her same number. Let me know and I can get it all set up. (The hard part will be getting the service guy out there. Thay make you wait all hours of the day, then don't show up, then nothing works when they leave, then you call the help line and somebody in India tells you "there's and outage in the area so just wait awhile and it'll come back on." You know, typical cable service.) So, does it save anything? Who ever pays the phone bill, let me know if you want to do this.
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I just read a Janet Evanovich book that had a cable company subplot. Vic, you describe it perfectly. In the book, every time someone said, "I'm waiting for the cable company" the response was "those f.......". Very funny.
Charter is $108/month - $45 for internet and $64 for TV.
Phone is about $50/month
$15.50 for residential line
$9.00 for caller ID
$12 taxes/surcharges
about $10 for local and long distance toll calls ($4.95/month + .05/minute) (Simpsonville, believe it or not, is a toll call)
At those rates we save about $700/yr. If there are no objections, I'll set it up. I'll keep her same number. That takes a little longer, but not much.
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