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5. Sometimes just calling them up and asking for a better price works.
Fri Jun 30, 2023, 07:48 PM
Jun 2023

I have ViaSat and they were going to up my bill by $30. My area is part of the rural Broadband initiative. We are supposed to get broadband by the end of September provided through the electric co-op.

I called ViaSat to cancel my satellite internet and they sent me directly to customer service and dropped my bill by $40. So that's $70 off of what they were going to charge me. I was quite clear that I'm probably going to drop them when the Electric Co-op runs the wire. So I wasn't trying to cheat them or anything.

Also there is a lot of broadcast channels now available. I'm about 50 Mi south of a metro area and 45 miles Northwest of a different area. With a cheap antenna that's pointed in either direction I can get all the major networks. I get PBS and it's sub networks which include create TV and the world channel. All in all about 40 channels. Some of which just plays old sitcoms from the 50s 60s 70s 80s and 90s. Over Roku, you can get the Pluto channels. That would be using your internet.

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