<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Cox will offer a "promotion" if you call and threaten to cancel. Cost of getting a new customer is high and they will work with you. You have to mean it though, or at least sound like you do.<br><br></div>Hughes is know to be slow and expensive. The best website for this type of research is: <a href="http://www.dslreports.com/">http://www.dslreports.com/</a><br><br></div>There are no affordable alternatives. Broadband companies have exclusivity in a municipality. I would call it a monopoly. Verizon, Cox and Highes can exist together because they are different technologies, fiber,cable and satellite respectively.<br><br></div>FYI, the Trump administration is gutting FCC rules relating to broadband.<br><div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Karen Klingon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kklingon@earthlink.net" target="_blank">kklingon@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi All,<br>
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We dropped cable about a year ago, and our Cox bill for phone and internet just skyrocketed. I checked with Verizon and they're even higher. Has anyone used HughesNet satellite service for internet and/or phone? Are there any other options currently?<br>
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Karen<br>
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