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Post by flanz on Oct 18, 2016 19:45:11 GMT
For purposes of having a phone to use in a power outage, we are keeping our landline and two phones which do not require electricity to operate. I WANT a landline phone.
When Frontier bought Verizon our rate went up from $66 to $89 dollars a month. Ridiculous, even at $66, but I haven't had time to look into in until just now. We also pay our cable company around $65 per month for internet.
If we get landline plus internet from Frontier, one sales rep told me it would be $60 plus taxes/fees. Another rep at a diff. FRontier nmber told me that offer was not available in my area. No clarity on that yet.
Anyway, HOW do you choose your internet provider and are you happy with them? We have had Cox for years and they have been pretty reliable.
Thanks!
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Post by red88 on Oct 18, 2016 19:57:15 GMT
I currently have comcast....I currently hate comcast. Unfortunatley, they are our only option that I know of. Frontier is terrible service where I am, so they are not an option. Here is a breakdown of why I hate comcast: 1. 289.00 a month! (That includes cable, HBO, Showtime, etc. internet, & a phone which I've never used) 2. They just implemented a cap on data. 1 terabyte a month, which is okay, but... 3. I can no longer watch on demand outside of my home network! So when I take lunch at work I can't watch missed shows, or if we go out of town, no catching up on shows  4. Customer service is the worst! I was so hoping that google would come to town with their internet. But no such luck yet. I'm still deciding on what to do. I'd like to cut cable, but my husband watches sports religiously. I keep asking him if sports are worth 300 a month! It's a sore subject right now. |
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Post by christine58 on Oct 18, 2016 19:58:29 GMT
I do...$49.99/month for internet. Never have had any issues
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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 18, 2016 20:23:03 GMT
One of my BFFs had Frontier for a while and she hated it with the heat of a thousand suns. Her DH was trying to cut expenses and they had a deal running, but she said they had so many service issues no amount of savings made the headaches worth it.
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Post by shutterbug2sue on Oct 18, 2016 20:32:21 GMT
We were one of those that had Verizon landline and then it got bought by Frontier.
Our monthly bill is $73 for basic phone and pathetic DSL internet.
The phone itself works fine, we were given caller ID, which was a nice upgrade we didn't have with Verizon.
The DSL line was oversold and has constant connection issues, but the rate was lowered at the last renewal. Yeah! But lots of drops and not a ton of reliability.
I remember looking at my Frontier bill in a bit more depth just last night - internet is $20/month, phone is $40 ish and the rest are those required phone fees. The phone would be the cheapest plan - no long distance, etc. And I pay extra for un-listed.
We are up for renewal in January and I'm leaning towards dropping the phone part as we don't use it and it's an expensive item to not use.
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Post by johnnysmom on Oct 18, 2016 20:36:30 GMT
We had Frontier, it sucked. There was a while there was I was calling at least weekly complaining. At one point I had someone who could see how many times our internet dropped in a day, I want to say it was something like 400 times our connection was dropped just in 1 day.
As soon as our 2 years was up(we got a promotion when we signed up and had to stay for 2yrs) we switched back to Time Warner.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2016 22:50:11 GMT
Frontier, previously Verizon, is the only internet/phone company for my area. We had Dish before and it SUCKED. We were paying $120 with verizon for phone and internet and $160-180 for Dish. It was constantly going out. Channels were droped. Or you had to upgrade to keep a channel.
With Verizon we paid $144-150 for FIOS internet, landline, and cable with added channels.
Under Frontier we pay $159.
The switch had some glitches but I never had any issues with customer service.
The only draw back was the $50 battery for the fios connection. It lasted 4 years before it had to be switched.
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Post by garcia5050 on Oct 19, 2016 0:30:04 GMT
I was with Verizon for landline and DSL. I paid $66 for that bill, and it's either the same with Frontier or I was grandfathered in. My bill is still $66. I lost internet access about 6 weeks ago and frontier was great about replacing my old equipment, we've not had an internet outage with frontier yet (other than my old equipment outage-I had the same router since 1999). I heard about a lot of complaints, so I was not expecting a good experience. I was pleasantly surprised.
FYI: I'm in a suburb of Los Angeles, not sure if that makes a difference.
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Post by cmpeter on Oct 19, 2016 5:07:13 GMT
I have Frontier internet and phone for my business line. I pay $98 a month for both. We have Comcast for our home cable/phone/internet. The Frontier is fine, but the Comcast is better...more reliable, faster, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2016 10:03:36 GMT
I have Frontier for internet and a landline. I pay just a little over $85. I wish I could just have internet, but where I live, we don't have cell reception at all. And I need a phone for work to get hold of me. There is no other service in this area.
I don't have many problems with Frontier. Occasionally, it will go offline and I have to reset the modem, but happens rarely. We run 3 tvs, 3 cell phones and a tablet, and a desktop computer from it. We didn't get the satellite service with it. I do have Amazon, Hulu, Netflix and CBS All Access and pay less than I did when I had cable/phone/internet from Time Warner in my old town. So all in all, I'm pretty happy. I have no choice! LOL!
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Post by Scrapbrat on Oct 19, 2016 11:43:55 GMT
We used to have our internet through AT&T because, like you, we wanted to keep a landline and their DSL internet was a pretty good deal. But, AT&T's original idea of putting fiber-optic cable in our area petered out, and we started getting calls about switching to their TV service and bundling everything. The DSL service had never been that great, so instead I checked prices and we ended up doing an internet and TV bundle with Comcast, and I just went down to the lowest level of landline phone service with AT&T.
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Post by flanz on Oct 19, 2016 16:59:12 GMT
Thank you for all of your replies! The Frontier tech who came here to repair our landline yesterday checked our signal for DSL and said it was strong, so maybe we wouldn't have issues with their internet. Apparently there is a (tower?) or something closeby.
It burns me to pay $89 for the landline alone, and then another $65 to our cable company for the internet. However, the internet from Cox, our cable company, has always been very reliable. I don't think I want to sign a two year commitment for the Frontier internet. What if it stinks?
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Post by melanell on Oct 19, 2016 17:51:18 GMT
We have Frontier for our landline and get our internet through a local cable company. I can't stand Frontier and I hate how much we pay for the landline, but, like you, we want a landline. No two ways about that. So we deal with them.
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Post by flanz on Oct 20, 2016 3:16:15 GMT
We have Frontier for our landline and get our internet through a local cable company. I can't stand Frontier and I hate how much we pay for the landline, but, like you, we want a landline. No two ways about that. So we deal with them. Do you mind my asking if your bill is anywhere near $89??? |
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Post by hop2 on Oct 20, 2016 3:26:32 GMT
Be careful. When the cable/internet company here provides a 'landline' phone number in a bundle it is still somehow internet/cable based. None of my neighbors with bundled 'landlines' had phone service after Sandy. Even the ones with generators. Where as my old fashioned landline from the phone company never went out.
Now I'm not saying you can't live without a true landline-people do it all the time. Just be aware exactly what your getting.
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Post by flanz on Oct 20, 2016 4:53:27 GMT
Be careful. When the cable/internet company here provides a 'landline' phone number in a bundle it is still somehow internet/cable based. None of my neighbors with bundled 'landlines' had phone service after Sandy. Even the ones with generators. Where as my old fashioned landline from the phone company never went out. Now I'm not saying you can't live without a true landline-people do it all the time. Just be aware exactly what your getting. Thanks for your info, esp. about post-Sandy! I definitely don't want digital phone. Our cable company sends me junk mail once a week telling me I can save a hundred bucks a month if I add their phone to cable tv and internet. No thanks! I want a true landline, which is what I have with Frontier. |
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Post by melanell on Oct 20, 2016 13:52:09 GMT
We have Frontier for our landline and get our internet through a local cable company. I can't stand Frontier and I hate how much we pay for the landline, but, like you, we want a landline. No two ways about that. So we deal with them. Do you mind my asking if your bill is anywhere near $89??? We pay $70 a month to the cable company just for the internet. No cable at all. We now only pay frontier $40 a month, but that's because we had them drop everything extra so we're paying for the most basic landline option available. No call waiting. No caller ID. No long distance coverage at all. When we were paying Frontier for internet & the basic landline, it was costing us more than to pay 2 separate companies. If I recall it was about $125 a month. Save |
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Post by Linda on Oct 20, 2016 18:09:04 GMT
we have AT&T Uverse for digital phone ('land'line) and internet...not because we like AT&T (I don't) but because our options here were AT&T dial-up or AT&T Uverse...cable doesn't service our area and nobody else does either. And to be honest - I was so glad to ditch the dialup when Uverse was first available, I was willing to keep dealing with AT&T (we had moved from an area with DSl so dialup was a difficult thing to go back to)
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