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Originally Posted by jyl View Post
I've been looking at dropping the phone part of the cable bundle, and using an Internet phone - some here like them, I think Hugh is one.

The cable company makes it look like dropping the phone part doesn't save enough to make it worth bothering, but someone who works in the cable biz told me the hidden part - a lot of the fees, taxes, and add-on charges that make upa good chunk of the bill go with the phone service, so they would get dropped too.

I have not checked this, but you might want to.
We dropped cable completely, then went back for Internet only. Even pay extra for the internet only, we are still paying less. DISH costs less and offers more. We have a Vonage line which is less than the cost of the Cable phone service.

Be careful about the cheapest VOIP phones. I bought 4 Nettalk phones last year and 2 of the devices died.
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