I wish I could laugh. It's hard, though, when one is stuck with a situation with suboptimal choices.
I looked into Verizon's DSL. My neighbor gets this for $30. However, it's "not available in my area."
Here are the options:
Verizon:
$79.99 for TV, internet, and land line.
This means, I would give up the VOIP and go back to a Verizon land line (which used to cost us $73).
Comcast:
Stay with the liars and keep paying $76 per month for 25 mbps. This is the slowest possible and, therefore, the cheapest.
Does not include a landline.
Note: Comcast said they would reduce my bill to $39.99 and then called back days later to say they could not do that.
The VOIP is $135 per year so around $11 per month.
Given the above, I am thinking Verizon is better for a few reasons:
1. Verizon has not yet had the opportunity to lie to me, so I am not as annoyed with them (yet).
2. With the land line bundled in there, we'd be combining two bills (land line and internet) into one.
The downside is that the Verizon land line used to stop working when it rained, and they could never fix the problem.
I am tempted to get rid of the internet all together, which I may do. I could live off of free wifi at coffeeshops or go back to a web phone plan (cheaper) to get email, which is all I really need.