How much per month do you pay for phone, computer, and TV, and for how many people?
I was thinking about how this is a not insignificant budget item for most of us that our parents did not need to cover.
Me, ~ $180 for a family of 5.
$115/month for the two of us.
We pay $90 for Internet and phone. We have an antenna for the TV.
$86 for two of us. That includes internet, Vonage, land line, and two pre-paid cell phones that are rarely used.
My $115 was for cable internet, cable tv, phone, and two cell phones.
Damn, I gotta look at mine. Unfortunately, tho I earn most of the income, I am a voting minority!
We got cable a year ago or so. I’d gladly go back to the antenna. And I could do without the cells.
We have basic cable, 2 cell phones, a land line, and cable internet.
If you have an HDTV then you can probably get a ton of over the air (OTA) digital stations for free. I looked yesterday at the Comcast in our area and they actually give less stations then I can get by antenna.
I forgot about cell phones, I have one I pay by the minute and I pay about $20 every three months. I don’t know how much my wife’s phone is.
The cost depends on whether or not you include wireless phones as part of the cost of communication.
We have a bundle through our cable TV provider and get cable, home phone, and high speed internet for about $130 a month.
On top of that the two of us each have pretty large wireless plans that include unlimited data, unlimited text messaging and fairly large pools of minutes. If you add the costs of our wireless plans into the mix, it about triples the cost.
Mine averages out to $130 CDN most months.
That includes landline, high speed internet, cable TV (basic + the next tier up + Movie Network), and two cell phones (minimal voice plan + voicemail/callID/txt bundle + Blackberry data for mine).
I do get employee discount on the above, so anyone else would pay nearly double for the same combo of services. I guess working for The Man occasionally has its perks.
I know, man, but the wife wants The Daily Show, and youngest daughter has become a channel surfer to challenge any guy.
Why on earth wouldn’t you?
If they are not for communication, then what are they?
I pay $80-something for my “silver package” cable TV. My cable internet, phone and cellphone are picked up by my company. How awesome is that?
Probably close to $200 - Broadband Cable, Cable TV, Home Phone, Long Distance, Cell Phone.
With an average of $9 for the cell phone, I feel like the addtional $10 to piggyback the neighbor’s DSL is not an outrageous cost.
When I bought the $90 television antenna from Radio Shack the twerp behind the counter kept trying sell me a satellite subscription, saying I could get $30 a month. I told him I wanted to watch Fox on Sundays and PBS on Tuesdays and with my single purchase I had a free lifetime subscription. He then told me how many choices and channels I would have with a dish. I mentioned that no matter how many piles of crap you had to choose from, you were still going to end up choosing crap.
Land line through AT&T, includes high-speed internet = $38.00-ish per month
Direct TV - expanded basic - no movie channels = $63.00-ish per month
No Cell phones!! Yahoo! 
I’m paying for six cell phones, two land lines and cable internet. Six-person family.
Part of this is for my home office and is tax-deductible.
The total monthly is in excess of $500. (please don’t scream.)
What do I win?
Generally about $110 for phone, cable, & Internet. Our phone bill has spiked greatly in the past few months since we’ve been calling our daughter in Namibia, but now that that’s settled, it’d be another $10-15.
My cell phone is paid for by my employer, so it’s not part of the equation. If I got my own cell phone, I’d possibly drop cable.
My sympathies.
For the two of us, it comes to $130 for our two cell phones, landline, DSL and Dish.
Thank you. We also have six vehicles on our automobile insurance policy.
ONE day they’ll all be out of college. ONE DAY. 
TV - nada. We don’t have cable. (Although, I would argue that TV does not really fall into the category of “communications”. Debatable, I know.)
Cell phone - $30/month for mine. MrWhatsit’s is currently out of commission, so $0 there. DSL internet + phone - $50/month.
So, total $80/month for a family of 5. Although, one of those 5 is still young enough to think of a phone as something to chew on rather than talk on.
My cell plan is $30 a month (really $35 after taxes, etc.), I don’t have cable, and I borrow my internet.