Wall St. Journal: On saving on phone service and cable

 
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123310097165622001.html

Granted, this article isn't exactly aimed at people who are truly
struggling, but I thought I'd post it anyway.

Lenona.

  lenona321@yahoo.com wrote:

Trouble is that it misses the point utterly. The real way to go is viop.

 On Feb 2, 6:02 pm, lenona...@yahoo.com wrote:

We stopped paying for cable TV last September when we got the
Digital Stream DTV box from Radio Shack with the $40.00 government
coupon.

We pay five dollars a month for cell phone

 lenona321@yahoo.com wrote in news:54159e57-d28d-4ecf-b939-e087ddfacdc3
@e24g2000vbe.googlegroups.com:


Good point. You have to keep watch on what you pay.
I dropped CATV about a year ago. I got a DTV converter
for Over the Air TV (BTW: There are extra channels).
There is also TV over the internet (Hulu, Joost, etc).
So no real reason to have CATV.

My basic stratagy is to get a big fat internet connection
and stuff everything (TVoIP and VOIP) down that pipe. It
should be cheaper than buying everything separately.

Cel phones are another story.  I'm now Month to Month on my
Sprint contract.  So I'm looking at other options there too.

 

What abt using T Mobile prepaid and then buying a sim
based GSM phone that has wifi built in

That way you can use Skype and wifi to "talk" within
wifi hotspots..... and save the cell minutes for times
nothing else available?