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NobodyвЂ™s happy about it, but for folks like me that only have one option for internet and TV, thereвЂ™s not much you can do about it. ThereвЂ™s some talk about the new rates on the DSLReports forums. But I bought that back in 2015, so IвЂ™ve certainly got my moneyвЂ™s worth out of it, and I shouldnвЂ™t worry about that particular sunk cost. Every time I think about dropping cable, I remember that IвЂ™ve got a TiVo which would become useless if I drop cable. But the $35 increase isnвЂ™t necessarily going to push me to do anything rash.

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If theyвЂ™d actually done the full rate increase all at once, my bill would be going up by more than $60, and that would likely have moved me to (finally) drop my cable TV subscription. So my overall bill should go up by maybe $35.

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So it should be two $14.50 increases, plus a handful of fee increases, mostly in the $1 to $2 range. I called to ask about it, and of course itвЂ™s the former. It said вЂњrateвЂќ and not вЂњbillвЂќ so it wasnвЂ™t clear if it meant that no individual charge would go up by more than $14.50, or if the total increase wouldnвЂ™t be more than $14.50. The wording on this was a bit hard to parse. But thereвЂ™s also a note that says that existing customers wonвЂ™t see their rate increase by more than $14.50. ItвЂ™s a pretty big increase, both on my TV service and my internet service. My cable bill this month had a notice of a rate increase, starting next month. (And also, a bit, about the sunk cost fallacy.) This blog post is going to be about some (relatively) small things. IвЂ™ve been thinking about the boiling frog metaphor a lot lately, both with regards to small things and big things. Of course, IвЂ™m also tempted to sign up for Paramount+, for the Star Trek stuff, and HBO Max, for the DC stuff, but IвЂ™m not too tempted. All told, it took about 15 minutes.ДЇor streaming video, IвЂ™m now paying for Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney+, and Apple TV+. They didnвЂ™t try to get me to keep the old package, or put me on hold, or disconnect me or anything. I was pleasantly surprised that Optimum didnвЂ™t make me work too hard to do this. Not enough to justify $50 or $70 every month. IвЂ™ll also watch stuff on TCM, BBCA, and SyFy occasionally, but not that often. And at this point, thatвЂ™s about 90% of my cable TV viewing. The math on my cable bill is complicated, but the change should save me somewhere between $50 and $70 per month.Д«roadcast Basic is the tier that just gets you broadcast channels, plus News 12. I finally managed to at least convince myself to drop back from the вЂњOptimum ValueвЂќ package to the вЂњBroadcast BasicвЂќ package, and I called and took care of that today. But I can never quite talk myself into it. IвЂ™ve been thinking about canceling my cable TV service for quite a while now.