Haven’t had cable for like 20 years now. Shop around, don’t pay for things you don’t use.
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Matthew_Gasoline@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Do you guys not have to pay for cable in order to get internet? Must be nice…
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Hexarei@programming.dev 5 months ago
“Shop around” <- found the non-USA-liver
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Most of us do. Rogers and Bell (the only companies we can get internet infrastructure from) don’t often sell internet on its own. You usually have to get a cable or home phone package with it.
If you’re lucky and some third party company is leasing some bandwidth from the existing fibre or cable infrastructure, you can pay a bit cheaper and just have an internet plan on its own (like with Start or Teksavvy or the others).
iegod@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Or if you’re in Toronto you get access to amazing ISPs like Benfield and fibrestream. $50 for 1Gb/s symmetric. Glorious
PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
That’s not true, I’ve been with Bell for 10+ years and they’ve always had an internet only option. In fact, I know they still do. So does East Link.
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I guess it depends where you live. I’m in Atlantic Canada and there aren’t any Bell or Rogers plans that have internet as standalone. Always in a bundle.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
No I don’t use a big telecom. I just get internet. Even if cable tv was free I wouldn’t use that trash. I have never paid for cable in my life.
PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Wait, you have guys have to pay for cable in order to get internet? I’ve never paid for cable in my life, just internet.
shortwavesurfer@monero.town 5 months ago
It depends on the company, at least here in the United States. I can most of the time pay for internet without cable of any kind, but I know some companies that don’t allow that.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Monopolies.
A lot of the time you can theoretically do it without the bundle, but the promo prices that are the only way pricing is remotely in the neighborhood of reasonable only apply to the bundle.
IamAnonymous@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No. It’s an option some companies sell as a bundle. I have gotten free cable box with free channels in order for me to get me hooked but I never plugged them in.