I had a client with about 80 customers, it's a neighborhood that sits at on the slopes of TV Mountain. That's the official geographic name. That's also its function. Yet, they could not get good wireless internet (we have ISPs in the valley floor for this), being in the dips of those hills (no line of sight) below the antennas. No cable to the neighborhood, either. Those whose houses I've been in have a Verizon tethering box that connects 5g cell to internet the same way your phone can pick up data (4g it was labeled LTE), something like this:

https://www.verizon.com/internet-devices/

For the TV part, I just cut $100 from Spectrum starting this month, and have one more level of change to make in Nov. The streaming landscape is changing more significantly than ever.

Charter-Optimum-Spectrum and I have a long fight history. "Oh, you don't get the Cooking Channel, even though you are on the Gold Plan? Oh, I see here you are on the wrong Gold Plan."

We dropped to Choice (a la carte, pick 15 channels) $50. Then add HBO/Max through Spectrum $15. Don't get it through HBO/Max directly. If you get it from HBO/Max, you don't get all the HBO content; get it through the cable provider and you get all of HBO (on cable) and all of Max (through streaming). Remember that MGM and Max are merged, so look at the Families of channels on Max, such as HGTV, Discovery, TLC, etc:

https://www.cabletv.com/hbo-max/channels

Don't pick those channels for your Choice package; that's double-access and a waste of 1 of the 15. However, get one Disney now. That way, real soon, when Disney buys all of Hulu and partners with ABC, etc, they are going to offer free streaming access to Disney cable subscribers, so you'll be good to go. We currently have Peacock streaming under those terms. Paramount + has a monthly free code; just search the web. We get Hulu (with ads) for for having Spotify; AT&T or Verizon or some cell phone services are partners with a bunch of streaming services, too. There are Cord Cutters forums on the web where they set up rotating subscriptions: Netflix for 3 months, binge; cancel and move to Apple TV for 3 months, binge; cancel and move to Amazon Prime for 3 months, binge: rotate and repeat.

Spectrum jumped our landline from $14.99 in Aug to $19.99 in Sept. That's was the last straw for me. We ported that to a Tracfone; it took 10 days of chaos, but was so worth it; back to $15 a month and that's our # to keep.

I recently came across a great comment: cell phone #s are the new tribal indicator. The area code tells other people, "This is the land I came from."

My Tracfone was free (Verizon owns Tracfone and had to upgrade you if you didn't have a 4g device) and my service is $7 a month, paid quarterly. I've since learned the way to maintain this is to buy through QVC or whoever it is that offers the annual $50-$150 Tracfone package, because it includes a new phone + service plan, and port over your number to that new device and any remnants of your existing plan.

We have a Samsung Smart TV, so the Spectrum app works for us (won't work for my mother, for instance, on Fire stick and dumb Sharp TV). I got rid of Spectrum's set top channel box and DVR, went to Cloud DVR. That saved another $25. Our internet through them is $85, so we went from $280 to $180 for Oct.

And Spectrum, at least in our area, has a "secret" TV package you never see listed or advertised and they don't mention it (I have a techie neighbor). This is my next change: Essentials. It is something like 40-60 channels, streaming only (which I'm already doing) and no local channels. So, here's what's arriving on Tuesday:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXKSHFS9?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

In your area, you might get over 100 OTA (over the air) channels. I tested my TV with a loaner antenna from a friend, and reference websites show our region has only about 6 or 8, with a couple of subchannels (such as PBS and PBS Kids). We're moving in 3 weeks (we hope, it's a new build that got delayed already) to the base of TV Mountain, where we have line of sight, and we'll hang this when we move in. One TV tower is about 180 degrees different (we live on the slopes of that mountain now), and that is the PBS channel tower, but we get Passport free for supporting NPR, and a free library card gets us Kanopy for free.

Then I can change to Essentials.