Guess I'll cut cable TV - $$$$

[hunter]

19. I'd try pushing the phone company for a bare-bones DSL only line...

... with no "Plain Old Telephone Service."

They do have the technology.

Maybe if enough people did this they'd listen.

Our AT&T service reps claim to have DSL only service, bring your own modem, but it seems to be bait-and-switch operation for their u-verse and business services. I'm quite content to let our independent internet service provider deal with that AT&T bullshit.

I've had to deal with AT&T in commercial settings and its been madness. My sister-in-law and daughter-in-law have experienced similar frustration in their work. However, once you get the guys in the trucks and hardhats out they tend to be mensches, no complaints about them. They'll make it work. I had a nice friendly interaction with an AT&T service guy just last week and he did make it work, up on a ladder just below an 8 kV power line, getting scolded by the squirrels.

On a side note, AT&T and Comcast, u-verse and xfinity, send my wife and I incredible amounts of junk mail and I haven't yet discovered any way to make it stop.