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Conina on 06 June 2017
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SvennoJ said:

It took about an hour and a half on the phone to find a suitable replacement package with 500GB data limit. Yay, still a data limit. Yet somehow $20 less a month than what we were paying, except, this is where they get you, in a year the bill will silently go up by $40 a month. Oh well, still have a year from then to negotiate a better deal before being off worse. That's what it feels like with my isp, yearly negotiations. Does it have to be this way.

At least they'll waive the overage charges (have to call again for that cause computers) and with nearly double the limit we should be good for a while again. I better check the next bill carefully. It usually takes a few back and forths until they get things as promised.


Anyone else have to negotiate yearly with their isp?
Btw we were paying about CAD 2500 ($1860) yearly for cable+internet+landline (useless thing but still have to keep it)

I have around 1 TB data per month (Steam, Origin, PSN, XBL + iTunes downloads + hundreds of automatic game updates every month + YouTube + Amazon Instant Video streaming). No torrents!

Last month only 850 GB, but last November I topped 2 TB (additional to the usual, I redownloaded a lot of PS4 games due to my switch from PS4 to PS4 Pro and many games with huge downloads were on sale):

On the other hand, we don't need much data volume for our mobile devices. My phone has 50 - 200 MB traffic per month, the rest of the family is way below that... so we "consume the internet" mostly at home.

Our costs are quite affordable: around € 50 per month for the whole package (telephone land line + 100 Mbit internet with no data cap + 4 phone/internet SIM cards for mobile devices + all telephone calls). All our TVs are connected to our satellite dish, so no extra costs for cable TV (except the €210 governmental broadcasting fee). 

So around €600 per year + €50 for Amazon Prime (will be €70 next year) + a few bucks for Netflix or Sky ticket for selected months + €210 TV fee... around €900 in total.