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Has anyone ever got in trouble because you went over Tmo bandwidth cap? I know it was a big issues when G1 first come out about 10gb cap/month limit.
I was wondering if anyone ever went over the cap limit? if so, what happen? I heard rumors that Tmo will lower the downstream speed to those individuals for the first offense, and then cancel your contract and service for future offense.
The reason I'm asking is because I use my rooted G1 as my main internet source for the past 3 weeks or so because my aunt doesn't want to pay for DSL anymore. I got 3G on my area and on good days I usually get about 750 kbps on my laptop, fast enough to pass by some free time. Lately, I been doing some heavy audio streaming and even downloading TV shows from torrent using my G1.
Pretty sure t-mobile will get pissed about bittorrent
Stop torrenting, and they should leave you alone
i know...but I can't help it. I need to watch my shows. I dont have tivo and can't afford extra bill for the damn internet for the house.
ichigoismyhomie said:
i know...but I can't help it. I need to watch my shows. I dont have tivo and can't afford extra bill for the damn internet for the house.
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use hulu.com it is completely legit and free streaming of shows and movies. ran by a tv station
Stop downloading so much, it makes the network slow for everyone else. If you do illegal activities on the phone I sure there will be some back lash. And if you keep this up they will make tethering against TOS, and you will ruin it for everyone.
is it possible to tehter on a tmobiile rc30 stock rom? and if so how?
Hate to be redundant, but I seriously hope that when T-mobile cracks down that they don't take out some poor guy who needs to ssh into a server and generates 10kb of traffic when they bust you for transferring multiple GB of bittorrent traffic.
The cost of bandwidth of a cell phone is VASTLY higher than over DSL or Cable. Radio bandwidth is a very limited commodity, and right now the networks barely have enough to serve their customers who just want to browse the web a little and watch the odd YouTube video (at low resolution).
If you have torrents seeding 24x7 you're going to use hundreds or thousands of times more bandwidth than an average user, and it is going to cause problems. Most likely you'll just get your service cut off (so then you'll be complaining about how you don't have DSL OR a cell phone). However, other possibilities include T-Mo blocking everything but port 80 and maybe 25. Please don't be the guy who does this to android...
Look, I'm all for net-neutrality and all that, and ISPs that have draconian filters need to be forced to remove them. However, you really can't compare a landline ISP that doesn't want you to do nothing more than web browse to a cell phone provider who wants you to stick to interactive use or otherwise low-bandwidth activities. Ditto for stuff like satellite-based internet. In these mediums bandwidth is genuinely limited.
If you need an analogy consider walking into a store every day and pocketing all the change in the "give/take a penny" bin. Sure, it is "free money," but you're basically ruining a community resource for even just the tiniest personal benefit. In you're case you're abusing what is likely a $60/month plan or so in order to avoid a $15/month DSL bill (give or take a few bucks).
Yeah cut it out. I heard that once you hit a data cap they drop you to edge speeds for the remainder of the month.
Don't ruin this for everyone. You'll live w/on your movies until you find another way.
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i know...but I can't help it. I need to watch my shows.
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It's called growing up. I'm 25 and haven't had internet and TV in MY house for going on 2 years. Do you know what I have a lot of? Books. *gasp*
"I need to watch my shows! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" *pout pout pout*
It's customers like you who are going to cause TMo to start throttling data usage so knock it off. Get a damn job and pay for an ISP yourself. What I quoted from you sounds like something my 8 year old would say.
uberingram said:
It's called growing up. I'm 25 and haven't had internet and TV in MY house for going on 2 years. Do you know what I have a lot of? Books. *gasp*
"I need to watch my shows! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" *pout pout pout*
It's customers like you who are going to cause TMo to start throttling data usage so knock it off. Get a damn job and pay for an ISP yourself. What I quoted from you sounds like something my 8 year old would say.
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I could not agree more. There are people starving in this world, and you NEED your tv shows. That is one of the most pathetic things I have heard in awhile. Here is a novel, parsimonious idea, instead of watching tv, educate yourself. Education can go along way, at least far enough to make you realize what a stupid idea it is to pirate over your cell phone.
ichigoismyhomie said:
i know...but I can't help it. I need to watch my shows. I dont have tivo and can't afford extra bill for the damn internet for the house.
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i understand how you feel, i can't afford internet at all, and so i have to use my phone to do everything like help n00bs on here, when i got my tilt i had 3G and it was great, at&t had a 5GB cap and i went over it repeatedly with no repercussions, i never did more than 10GB on at&t so i seriously doubt i could do that on the edge network i have here with my G1. but from what the t-mo rep tols me the other day, after telling me that it was impossible to tether, and that there is no way to write a program for it, they just knock you down to edge speends for the rest of the month.
i also use the phone for my main source of internet but don't torrent, people that torrent ruin things and it makes everyone hate you.
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It's called growing up. I'm 25 and haven't had internet and TV in MY house for going on 2 years. Do you know what I have a lot of? Books. *gasp*
"I need to watch my shows! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" *pout pout pout*
It's customers like you who are going to cause TMo to start throttling data usage so knock it off. Get a damn job and pay for an ISP yourself. What I quoted from you sounds like something my 8 year old would say.
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I'm so not gonna say anything.
Shaggy (41yrs old)
I think that maybe T-Mobile should charge additional per GB instead of putting a cap on. It should be about $2 per GB over (just an example). Which wouldn't be much for the average user... but for those who torrent it would definitly add up. However that would cause a change in the contract which T-Mobile reserves the right to do without notice. The would probably resort to such measures if everyone started doing this.
uberingram said:
It's called growing up. I'm 25 and haven't had internet and TV in MY house for going on 2 years. Do you know what I have a lot of? Books. *gasp*
"I need to watch my shows! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" *pout pout pout*
It's customers like you who are going to cause TMo to start throttling data usage so knock it off. Get a damn job and pay for an ISP yourself. What I quoted from you sounds like something my 8 year old would say.
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Don't think you're better than anyone just because you don't watch TV. Oh wow you don't have internet or tv in your house ! Why are you on the internet now then? Go read a book, you're wasting bandwidth for the rest of us.
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Don't think you're better than anyone just because you don't watch TV. Oh wow you don't have internet or tv in your house ! Why are you on the internet now then? Go read a book, you're wasting bandwidth for the rest of us.
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growing up... lol that's why he bought the G1.
Binary100100 said:
I think that maybe T-Mobile should charge additional per GB instead of putting a cap on. It should be about $2 per GB over (just an example). Which wouldn't be much for the average user... but for those who torrent it would definitly add up.
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Sounds fine to me. But they better make it possible to opt-out - I don't want some malfunctioning application to run up a $500 phone bill. If I hit a 10GB cap I'd rather they just cut me off.
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However that would cause a change in the contract which T-Mobile reserves the right to do without notice. The would probably resort to such measures if everyone started doing this.
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That would be wonderful! I just got a whole stack of phones at promotional pricing and a unilateral change in contract terms would be a material change that would get me out of my contract!
T-Mobile may not be required to give notice BEFORE changing the contract, but they certainly are required to tell you WHEN they change the contract. If the change is material to the terms of the contract you can refuse to accept the new terms, at which point they must either release you from the contract or continue service under the original terms. If they refused to do this and then tried to charge you a termination fee any court of law in the US would rule in your favor in a heartbeat (and they'd face a class action in no time). The whole point of contracts is that you agree to a set of terms and then you live by them - they can only be ammended by mutual consent. Anything written in the contract to the contrary is almost certainly unenforceable.
Sure, they might try to give you a hard time, but they would cave in. Just look at what happened when verizon decided to up some surcharge by 20 cents per month last year - lots of people argued it and got released from their contracts and continued month-to-month (with the freedom to leave at any time).
I doubt T-mobile would make a unilateral change like this anyway - the reason I signed up with them (besides the G1) is that they seemed to not have a reputation for some of the cheap shots some of the other companies pull.
look use rapidshare or megaupload that way theres no uploading but you still have to watch your limits (i use to go over 40gigs with my TYTN 2 on att and i thank god they never charged me be4 i was able to end my contract)
Hi
I wondering if someone knows how to watch tv on Xperia?
Cause I seen that they have create iPlayer for Xperia. Read please the link.
http://www.xperiax1.net/Latest/bbc-iplayer-comes-to-xperia-x1.html
I use KPN network and have free internet and streaming. Can i use a tv application for my Xperia so I can watch tv without payin for application?
Try this:
http://www.diamondtv.fr/
It had a fair few channels from all over the world. Even some porn ones.
you could use tvuplayer for windows mobile
http://pages.tvunetworks.com/labs/mobile.html
tvu mobile? .. thats amazing !!! ... do u guys think there is gonna be a problem with the provider though? Because even though I am on a unlimited data plan with Vodafone UK - I think the small print does say something about "reasonable amount of usage" bla bla max. 200 mb a month (could that be right?) .. so basically if you stream 90 minutes of premierleague I guess u d exceed that fairly quickly ..
what are your thoughts?
yeah - the "unlimited" thing basically means "unlimited web browsing" - i.e. streaming isn't included.
it's the same as anything like this - if you do a bit of streaming and end up with 225mb of usuage they probably wont bill you, if you managed 400mb they might not but you never know....just covering themselves i think.
Amanox said:
tvu mobile? .. thats amazing !!! ... do u guys think there is gonna be a problem with the provider though? Because even though I am on a unlimited data plan with Vodafone UK - I think the small print does say something about "reasonable amount of usage" bla bla max. 200 mb a month (could that be right?) .. so basically if you stream 90 minutes of premierleague I guess u d exceed that fairly quickly ..
what are your thoughts?
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VodaUK is 500mb fair use. Most likely if you go over you'll get a letter (or the speed will be reduced), do it again and they'll remove the package.
There is also a chance that you could even be billed at £2/mb for each over the allowance.
http://online.vodafone.co.uk/dispat...pb=true&_pageLabel=template11&pageID=PTC_0050
Mobile Internet and email pack (Pay monthly customers only)
The Mobile Internet and email pack is a monthly data access bundle available on compatible price plans. It can be included in your monthly line rental fee or added to your account as a monthly subscription. The Pack gives you unlimited data access in the UK only, subject to a fair use limit of 500mb per month. If we think your use is excessive or that you are abusing the service we may ask you to moderate your usage and/or we reserve the right to charge you for the excessive element of your usage at the standard out of bundle rate for your price plan. We may also move you to a more suitable price plan or an equivalent price plan without a Mobile Internet and email pack. The Mobile Internet and email pack is for private non-commercial use only and roaming charges apply to all data access from abroad.
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SPB TV works great on X1.
Limited channels but great choice.
News ,music,sports...
If you're unlimited, they are not going to charge you for overusing, unless it says so explicitly in the contract. What they might do is they might ask you to hold your horses a little more. They might also just silently get rid of you, stating some obscure reason for termination (and charging you termination fees). Happened to me with a (Vodafone based) provider.
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SPB TV works great on X1.
Limited channels but great choice.
News ,music,sports...
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sorry... do u know if spb tv has more channels than spb online?
One of the must annoying things about mobile tv is Sky News only brodcasting the lnews headlines over and over again! ie, its not really live, its a news loop
there is a free software in the general development section called webtv, it has over 1000 channels, not sure if the ones your looking for are included but worth having a look as it is free
francomur99
Hi ,the SlingPlayer is perfect more then 800 channels, the same Tv channels I've got at home connected with the Slimbox ,and the Skybox £120, you need wireless router £120 I watch my channels tv in London from Tenerife, Sardinia, Paris...more or less all over in the world. Then SPB Online £ 25 less channels 25/30 with italian channels like Rainews24, sport ecc. and Pocket Tv but this one is a bit crap. The best for me is the SlingPlayer.Ciao
I just go the email form netflix saying they are increasing there prices.
WTF, they have nothing new streaming.
Hows hulu plus?
We are separating unlimited DVDs by mail and unlimited streaming into two separate plans to better reflect the costs of each. Now our members have a choice: a streaming only plan, a DVD only plan, or both.
Your current $9.99 a month membership for unlimited streaming and unlimited DVDs will be split into 2 distinct plans:
Plan 1: Unlimited Streaming (no DVDs) for $7.99 a month
Plan 2: Unlimited DVDs, 1 out at-a-time (no streaming) for $7.99 a month
Your price for getting both of these plans will be $15.98 a month ($7.99 + $7.99). You don't need to do anything to continue your memberships for both unlimited streaming and unlimited DVDs.
These prices will start for charges on or after September 1, 2011.
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This is garbage if true.
Heard about this on the news, no surprise.
Especially since everyone shares their accounts with each other.
Wow you really feel that's garbage? Seems like an extremely compelling price still.
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Your current $23.99 a month membership for unlimited streaming and unlimited DVDs (including Blu-ray access) will be split into 2 distinct plans:
Plan 1: Unlimited Streaming (no DVDs) for $7.99 a month
Plan 2: Unlimited DVDs (including Blu-ray), 3 out at-a-time (no streaming)
for $19.99 a month
Your price for getting both of these plans will be $27.98 a month ($7.99 + $19.99). You don't need to do anything to continue your memberships for both unlimited streaming and unlimited DVDs.
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Hulu plus blows. I did the trial, they have a lot of no name movies, old(think 1960s) movies, and crap for TV shows
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Need more competition in the streaming market.
GunnerOnASpooky said:
Hulu plus blows. I did the trial, they have a lot of no name movies, old(think 1960s) movies, and crap for TV shows
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I only got Hulu Plus to watch Daria, but there's not a lot of HD content on there & the commercials gets on my nerves
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mattykinsx said:
Heard about this on the news, no surprise.
Especially since everyone shares their accounts with each other.
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+1 To that. My girlfriend gave me her account and we watch over xbox live since we're apart at the moment. Great idea we had.
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I only got Hulu Plus to watch Daria, but there's not a lot of HD content on there & the commercials gets on my nerves
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I thought the purpose of PLUS was to get away from the commercials? Plus the extended selection, blah blah...
davenukem said:
Wow you really feel that's garbage? Seems like an extremely compelling price still.
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Yeah I really feel it's garbage.
I've been streaming Netflix ever since it became available on XBOX360, and truthfully, the library has not gotten much better.
For the 4 or so DVD's I rent a month, I'll just run to a Redbox.
Also, +1 to the person who said we need more competition in the streaming arena.
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Yeah I really feel it's garbage.
I've been streaming Netflix ever since it became available on XBOX360, and truthfully, the library has not gotten much better.
For the 4 or so DVD's I rent a month, I'll just run to a Redbox.
Also, +1 to the person who said we need more competition in the streaming arena.
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I agree with what you're saying.
I don't have Netflix.
Wont pay for it.
Why?
50% of the stuff I want is "DVD only"
"DVD only" my balls.
mattykinsx said:
I agree with what you're saying.
I don't have Netflix.
Wont pay for it.
Why?
50% of the stuff I want is "DVD only"
"DVD only" my balls.
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I agree...when the lady and I wana watch something...'dvd only' It chips at our souls a little...each and every time.
I got the same email today and responded by cancelling my account.
Thank god for pirating.
Yeah, go ahead and flame me
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I got the same email today and responded by cancelling my account.
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Solid response, I'm considering the same.
Got my email today too. The way I see it Netflix for my movies and hulu for TV shows is still less than any cable or satellite programming.
SComp23 said:
Solid response, I'm considering the same.
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The only response that they will care about.
Unless you and a million other blow up their Facebook.
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I got the same email today and responded by cancelling my account.
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I'll be doing the same in august. That's sixteen rebox movies a month, and they are everywhere around here. Double the price in less than a year since I started, f that.
For those interested, amazon prime for $80 a year gives free streaming of mostly the same movies and gives free shipping. I may go that route myself.
chamala2000 said:
I just go the email form netflix saying they are increasing there prices.
WTF, they have nothing new streaming.
Hows hulu plus?
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I got the same damn email today and believe me, I'm pissed. They've been raising prices almost yearly if not sooner. I started out with the maximum amount of dvds out at once and added blurays as soon as they offered them. Now I'm on 1 disc at a time and its going to cost me as much as when I first started out. I'm about fed up.
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Hi
I thought I would share this experience: Hacking an Android phone for $8 monthly broadband and TV
My girlfriend has been transferred to San Antonio. She wanted television and broadband but not the $80 a month cable/interent bill.
She has T-Mobile's unlimited data plan so I rooted her phone and installed WiFi Tether Router on it and bought her Aereo live television for $8 a month and saved a truckload of money.
Aereo rebroadcasts over the air television over the internet delivering crystal clear HD.
Best
Nice article its indeed a interesting point of view but there's so many other things to consider. The location on america could be ok but even here in london i have a lot of connection problems and i am also a gamer i wouldnt like to have my connection delaying my game experience
However ya.. it could be a good oppurtunity who doesnt spend to much time at home or dont mind fail an episode here and then..
Also for those who may not know.. yet... which i find impossible lol. London's three operator is a low cost Unlimited Data and also others are following their step such Phone Houses and Orange (which is on promotion Sims right now)
Wow.. what a good idea man.. Thanks for the info.
thx
Interesting read! Thanks for sharing.
stevep2007 said:
Hi
I thought I would share this experience: Hacking an Android phone for $8 monthly broadband and TV
My girlfriend has been transferred to San Antonio. She wanted television and broadband but not the $80 a month cable/interent bill.
She has T-Mobile's unlimited data plan so I rooted her phone and installed WiFi Tether Router on it and bought her Aereo live television for $8 a month and saved a truckload of money.
Aereo rebroadcasts over the air television over the internet delivering crystal clear HD.
Best
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Is that a 4G phone or something?
I cut the cord a few months ago. I have two fire TVs, and I'm mostly happy with my Hulu subscription for getting TV shows that air on CBS, ABC, NBC, etc. However, I do miss live tv and am going to REALLY need it come football season. I was going to bite the bullet and get a rooftop antenna. It would have been really expensive, but hell, it's a one-time cost. Then I found out about Slingbox. You can use it to control your cable box remotely from an Android or Apple device so you can watch TV away from home. It reencodes the output from a video source and sends it over the Internet to your device. A Slingbox 350 sells for $100 and the app costs $15 from the Google Play store or Apple store. The Fire TV has a Slingbox app for free. One of the selling points of the Slingbox is for people who have multiple homes but don't want to pay for Cable TV at both locations. The Slingbox acts like a remote control extender and super long video cable from the one house to the other. My bright idea was to buy one of these things and put it at a relative's house. They'd get another cable box just for me and I'd pay them back for it. I'd connect the new cable box to the Slingbox 350 to it as if it were a TV, and stream the video to my home using their Internet connection and watch it through my Fire TVs. A couple of caveats:
You need to find someone who won't mind the upload bandwidth.
Willing to have another cable box installed in their home and pay its rental up front.
The Slingbox will only send the video to ONE device at a time. Even if everyone wants to watch the SAME thing, only one Slingbox to one device at a time.
The experiment was a success! They have FiOS TV with a 25/25 Internet service. The 25 upload speed capacity makes a BIG difference compared to the 50/8 Cablevision connection I had tried in the past. (I should note that the network activity on the relative's FiOS Internet connection is low as they hardly go on the Internet.) The video quality is very high.
The Slingbox app on the Fire TV isn't as nice as the one for phones and tablets. Instead of providing their own programming guide, it just uses the guide feature on the cable box. This is useless since there's a 5 second delay between commands. I don't understand why the Slingbox needs so long to send commands and why the video has to pause while it sends. The Fire TV app always defaults to the lowest quaility setting rather thn remember that I want the Best HD quality, so I have to manually set it each time I use it.
I didn't bother with the Slingbox 500 for a few reasons:
I didn't need or want wireless.
HDMI is protected such that it won't work for a lot of channels. Component is good enough for me.
I don't need or want any of the on-screen features provided by the Slingbox 500.
Overall, the Slingbox 350 and Fire TV might be a great way to piggyback someone else Cable TV service. The only fee I have to pay is the additional box fee, which is $10 a month.
Verizon has a 10tb limit or less before they send letters about high data usage.
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Verizon has a 10tb limit or less before they send letters about high data usage.
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10 TB means you'd have to transmit at over 32 Mbps constantly for 30 days to hit that cap.
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10 TB means you'd have to transmit at over 32 Mbps constantly for 30 days to hit that cap.
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yup something like that some people were getting letters with even less usage (verizon just claims it's unlimited)
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yup something like that some people were getting letters with even less usage (verizon just claims it's unlimited)
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Well, Verizon offers a lot of 50 and 75 deals. At 25 Mbps, you couldn't hit the cap anyway.
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Well, Verizon offers a lot of 50 and 75 deals. At 25 Mbps, you couldn't hit the cap anyway.
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I got a nice deal for 69.99 75/75 select hd 2015 and all premium channels jncluded 2 yrs free and use razer forge for live tv via cable card
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I got a nice deal for 69.99 75/75 select hd 2015 and all premium channels jncluded 2 yrs free and use razer forge for live tv via cable card
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Unfortunately for me, I can't get Fios TV. Only phone and Internet. The cable company knows this, so they screw us over due to lack of competition.