Living without cable

After I moved from my previous apartment to this new studio apartment, I didn't bother to bring Comcast cable over with me. Instead, I signed up for AT&T's Internet service. I've since discovered that where Comcast goes out of its way to force you into cable television service, AT&T goes out of its way to force you into overpriced telephone services to get Internet. An example: I signed up for a $5.00 measured line. That $5.00 measured line, after taxes and bizarre charges, costs about $35-40.

I had bought into AT&T thinking I might add satellite service later through them as well. I've completely changed my mind on this. I switched completely to Clearwire (a wireless service), and we'll see how that works.

But this post was about cable TV. I guess I chose the right time to do this because with the writers' strike going on in Hollywood right now, television really sucks. There's nothing original coming out other than what was canned originally and then brought back out because they have nothing else filmed. Who needs that crap? Certainly not me.

So I've been managing on a rabbit ear antenna and Netflix since then. And it's really not that much different.

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