I want to cancel cable tv but keep Internet

[Marthe48]

17. I could tell you stories :)

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We lived near Woodsfield Ohio for years. We got 2 channels on rabbit ears, sometimes 3 if the wind was blowing the right way. lol We got a dish antenna, the giant one, and enjoyed a lot of programming until the cable companies won both sides of their argument: not enough people in rural areas to run cable to, but so many that having dish antennas would run them out of business, and they got to block access to most of the satellite transmissions. My husband called the local cable company every month for years, and finally we got cable, like 1000 feet of wire thru the woods to our house.

When we moved to near Marietta, we had cable, and Charter was installing Internet access. I got an online job, and was using a telephone modem, which was so slow. My husband called Charter every week wanting to know when we'd have cable Internet access. When we finally got it, Charter sent us a letter that since we are such good customers, we'd only have to pay the initial monthly fee for as long as we were customers, that we'd get no price increases. We held on to that letter like it was gold. Well, Charter sold out to Suddenlink and they did not honor that letter.