"Every producer who was laid off on my team is a person of color."

[hunter]

59. As I recall we quit Comcast when they raised their rates from $29 to $39 a month...

... which shows you how long ago it was.

Neither the phone company or Comcast offered residential internet service back then.

And we probably needed the money for food.

Comcast made it very difficult to quit, especially by phone. I ended up driving to their local office and confronting a supervisor directly. After rejecting multiple hard-sell "special offers" I may have threatened to winch the cable connecting our home to their system out of the ground and remove it from our property.

Understanding I was serious, they canceled my outstanding balance from when I'd first tried to quit by phone (document, document, document...) leaving me with a positive balance of thirty some-odd cents. I think they recorded my reason for quitting as "moved" because sure enough a few days later Comcast sales people came to our front door offering special "move-in" deals and I got calls from them for about a year offering to reconnect me in my "new" home even after I told them to stop calling.

My wife and I only watched DVDs for a few years until one of our kids, who was home from college, set us up with Netflix. Since then we've usually subscribed to two or three no-advertising streaming services at any given time, most consistently Netflix, budgeting about $35 a month for television. Most of the money we "save" by not having cable we probably spend on books.

How are you set up for internet? I'm glad I don't have to choose between AT&T and Comcast. I also think internet service ought to be free for low income people because it's becoming nearly essential to have an internet connection to be fully functional in modern society.