Streaming this week's PBS programs using the PBS app on an AppleTV is free. No subscription cost. If one wants to have access to the whole archive of older PBS episodes, one needs to join one's PBS affiliate (costs for this can vary from one PBS station to another).

We pay $90/mo for FIOS 1GB. Best value ever! Had Xfinity for years. Thing about cable is the advertised speeds are only down not up. FIOS is both up and down. Makes a huge difference when spouse and kid and me all on video calls (both work from home). My Xfinity used to drop randomly middle of day and then come back. Same with my neighbors.

Also pay another $140/mo for cable, including $36/mo for 4 boxes. I wish there was a way around that. Not sure about value for the cable but I love my FIOS internet.

Anonymous wrote:Great info. Thanks everyone. Anyone using YouTube tv as an option?

It really depends on what you watch. Our bill was $300 something a month when we pulled the plug. That was for internet and cable with premium packages(not including movies rentals). Ended up with sling tv gold(added blue for sports), Netflix, Apple TV, PBS(app suck), Hulu, Amazon prime with Max(showtime, etc), paramount plus and peacock(sucked) with high speed internet for about $140ish a month. Some of those over lap so we got YouTube tv and stopped sling, peacock, PBS.

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Anonymous wrote:Holy cow that's a lot. We don't have Verizon fiber access, but do have the option of RCN and Xfinity. So just switch between them every two years when the promotional pricing runs out. Currently on $25/month for 300mbps from RCN. Have our own cable modem for 10 years.

That's a great deal. You must be brand new to RCN. I have RCN and I'm paying $60 for 300 mbps.

Yes that's why we switch every two years. To get the "new customer" promotional pricing, which usually lasts for 2 years. But obviously need to have both as an option,.not everyone does.

We use to do that. We tried that with Xfinity and they said they would give $25 off if we moved our phones over. So we got high speed internet and YouTube TV. Ends up being 1/2 the price of cable.

We pay $55 for just Internet with Xfinity and don't have cable: I juggle various subscription free trial and "are you sure you want to cancel?" really cheap deals for $3/mo. Only one you cannot do this with is Netflix.

We spend about $100 for Verizon High speed cable, and maybe another $100 for YouTube TV - much better than Verizon DVRs or TiVO.

Anonymous wrote:Do you have your cell phone(s) on xfinity? They use the Verizon network. Our cable is pricey but we haven’t switched in part because our phones (both lines) are 3 GB for $36 (total) / month and $12 / GB after that. Most months we’re paying $48 for our phones combined and we were well over that each previously.

Cable/internet and mobile can be separate. Are you getting a bundle with xfinity?