Tag: Internet
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Deal Alert: Verizon Fios Has a Great Deal for Cord Cutters
Internet is an important part of being a cord cutter. While you don’t need home Internet to be a cord cutter, it does make cord cutting so much easier. Now Verizon Fios has a special TV deal that is great for cord cutters. Right now you can get 50/50 Internet only for $39.99 with free…
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Deal Alert: AT&T Has a Special Internet Deal Ending Soon
If you have read Cord Cutters News you likely know I highly recommend shopping around for home internet and switching back and forth between your phone company and your cable company for internet. This allows you to always to get the best deal and even if you don’t want to switch ISPs, knowing what the…
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How to lower Your Internet Bill
Access to the Internet is becoming an important part of every American’s life. Not just for cord cutting but everything from work to banking is done online; however, the cost of Internet can easily get out of control if you are not careful. The following are a few tips on how to lower your Internet…
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Microsoft Has a Plan to Bring Broadband Internet to Rural America
Bringing broadband to rural Americans has been a battle for as long as the Internet has been around. Last year the FCC did a study and published a report that it would cost an estimated $80 billion to bring broadband to all of rural America. While the government does plan to spend more on rural…
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Please Shop Around For Internet
Every time I talk about Internet options I hear “I have no other options” or “there is DSL, but DSL is slow.” Hold on! Ninety percent of the time I talk someone into looking around, the ones who said there are no other options find out there are, and the ones who said DSL is…
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Can Cord Cutters Live With 1TB Data Caps? We Take a Look…
This week Cox joined Comcast, AT&T, and others by adding a 1TB data cap to most of its plans (2TB for gigabyte subscribers). That raised a lot of questions with our readers about their ability to stream what they want with a 1TB data cap. So we are going to do our best to answer…
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AT&T is Rolling Out Faster Rural Internet in 18 States
Back in April 2017 AT&T announced it completed a first wave of Fixed Wireless Internet availability for rural and undeserved locations in Georgia. Now AT&T has announced that they have added over 70,000 locations to the Fixed Wireless Internet service for rural areas. The work in started Georgia is expanding to 18 more states this year.…
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A New Bipartisan Bill Aims to Expand Gigabit Internet Availability
It seems the one thing that can get Democrats and Republicans to agree is the need for faster Internet. Recently Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito from West Virginia introduced the Gigabit Opportunity GO Act. Now Democratic Senator Chris Coons of Delaware has signed on as a co-sponsor of the bill. This bill would encourage companies…
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Deal Alert: Fios Gigabit Internet Is On Sale With FREE Setup & NO Contract
Verizon’s Fios service has always been one of the leaders in fiber Internet. Now for a limited time, customers can get Fios Gigabit Internet (data speeds up to 940Mbps/880Mbps) for $69.99/month for one year with no annual contract. Plus order online and Verizon will waive the set-up fee ($90 value). If you want fast speed…
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Study: Live TV Streaming Set to Expand 15-Fold
Today Cisco released a new study that looks at the future of the internet. A good part of that study looked at how video will continue to dominate internet traffic and overall Internet traffic growth—representing 80 percent of all Internet traffic by 2021, up from 67 percent in 2016. According to the report globally, there…