Would You Cancel Your Home Internet Service?

Somewhat interesting article in the journal regarding cutting internet service in favor of using their wireless connections on their smartphones combined with wireless hot spots in places like starbucks.

For all the fuss over Americans dropping their cable subscriptions in favor of Internet video, another type of cord cutting appears to be more common.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans canceled their home Internet service last year, surveys suggest, taking advantage of the proliferation of Wi-Fi hot spots and fast new wireless networks that have made Web connections on smartphones and tablets ubiquitous.

Last year around 1% of U.S. households stopped paying for home Internet subscriptions and relied on wireless access instead, according to consumer surveys by Leichtman Research Group Inc. Just 0.4% of households in the last year canceled their pay-television subscriptions in favor of getting video entertainment over the Internet via services such as Hulu or Netflix.

Obviously, this is an extraordinarily small amount of households and not nearly enough to raise any alarms but it does intrigue me because I would have figured more people would cut their cable service in favor of their internet connections. This article doesn't exactly strike me as heartwarming as to people being extraordinarily pinched in their budgets but I'm still surprised that people would choose cable tv over home internet. Personally, besides my phone, that would be the absolute last thing I would ever cut. What do you guys think?

 

in order for this to happen cell-based internet would have to be more reliable and less restrictive. The current plans all top out at about 5-6 gigs before crazy throttling begins

 

I've been using my phone as a hot-spot for internet access in my home the past year. This week I subscribed to an internet provider, but only because the condo I recently moved into is concrete, and cell service sucks - I still don't have cable TV, and don't plan on getting it - ever.

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Bought a $1,200 TV my senior year of college on an interest free BestBuy credit card. Took two years to pay it off. By the end of the cycle, I had gone from basic cable to zero cable, and ended up giving it away to the parents. I can watch HD movies and TV shows on my laptop, and if the NFL playoffs are on, I'd prefer to watch it in a bar anyways. I don't think I'll ever buy a TV again...

 

I like turtles. Turtles aren't on TV much, but are easy to find on the internet.

So I would cut cable before the internet.

I like turtles.

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