# What are your communications costs? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 13, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-communications-costs/429858 "2007-12-13T14:29:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-communications-costs/429858/21 "2007-12-14T18:14:39Z")
1 cell phone, $50/month. I don’t have cable or Internet service. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-communications-costs/429858/22 "2007-12-14T18:27:54Z")
Charter Communications takes care of landline phone (3 numbers, 2 actual lines, unlimited domestic long distance), minimal basic cable TV (mostly shopping channels) and Internet (5Mb down, 512Kb up, reliable and no cutoffs for too much data). This runs $120/month. Celphone is a different company, about $30/month. I never use up the minimum minutes, so it never costs more. My celphone doesn’t work at home anyway. What pisses me off the most is the Charter $2.50/month charge for an unpublished phone number. It actually costs them MORE to NOT list it? For a 1-bit flag in a database? What a rippoff. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-communications-costs/429858/23 "2007-12-14T19:58:10Z")
$30 for landline phone. $10 for cell phone (Tracphone). For TV I use an antenna to recieve HD broadcasts, but I have 2 Tivos (a HD and a Series 2) that cost about $20 a month together. $50 for wireless Internet. So $110. ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-communications-costs/429858/24 "2007-12-14T20:37:31Z")
Cable = $60 DSL = $30 Landline pPhone = $30 (approximately) Cell phone = $20 BlackBerry = $20 So that’s $160 just for me. Not split with anyone else. I really oughta drop cable. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-communications-costs/429858/25 "2007-12-15T01:02:04Z")
$30 for cell phone $25 for my half of the internet. I don’t know about counting cable as “communications” since I think of it as “entertainment”, but if you’re all counting cable, then I guess I should throw in $20 for Netflix. ---
**Author:** ![EnginNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ea924/32.png) [@EnginNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnginNerd)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-communications-costs/429858/26 "2007-12-15T06:20:10Z")
$25 for half of a shared cable internet connection. My cell phone is covered by my employer and I have good old rabbit ears for TV. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-communications-costs/429858.md?page=1)