>The second part of the article was, I think, a response from the lobbyist for the cable companies <s>
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>I don't really have much point of comparison but I know the bundling (I have AT&T uverse) makes for a pretty expensive package. I pay $250 a month or so for broadband, about a 1000 ttv channels including all premium 5 set top boxes, a DVR, and a VOIP phone line. Cell service (also AT&T) is about $80 a month for pretty much unlimited voice and 3gb data (which is more than I need as I am almost always on wireless)

I pay almost the same as you (almost 300 a month for broadband + tv + home phone) + around 160 for cell-phone (3 cells, 2 sharing 1.2 Gb of data, the third no data), my plan for before the end of the year is to cut down TV, I do not know what was I thinking.... and now I do not know what to do about the cell-phones, my contract is about to end so I need to renew 2 of them but I have no idea what will I do, crazy how much money we spend in this...