What Would You Cancel If Finances Were Tight?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65622403
I'm not skint but if I was I'd rather cancel Sky TV et al than broadband. Broadband to me has become a vital utility.

[1ozzy]

My wife?

[Hymie]

Unfortunately (in a large part due to more than a decade of Tory government incompetence and corruption) many people are having to resort to the use of food banks to get by, now many cannot even afford a home internet connection – to children living in such a home, their education will inevitably suffer without access to such a resource.

No doubt to a Tory supporter, it is all the fault of poor people.

[Hymie]

Perhaps these poor people who cannot afford an internet connection should take TTT’s advice, cancel their Sky subscription and have Fortnum & Mason cut back on their weekly caviar deliveries.

[barry1010]

Broadband is very cheap these days especially the perfectly good social tariffs. I pay less for the Internet now than I did 20 years ago and get 200MBps. I could have a cheaper service if I wanted it.
Those that get a good 4G or 5G signal can tether devices to a cheap PAYG SIM card, there are some really good deals for unlimited data.
I would not consider having no Internet, it saves me more than it costs

[Peter Pedant]

norty lozza
it is a serous question posed so I can understand it

the people making these silly silly decisions cant budget
and this is another of them ( bad budget decision)

[Peter Pedant]

I pay less for the Internet now than I did 20 years ago.

well the cambridge ring ( wing ding) 1970s sort of didnt grow because the idea was too leave your computer on ALL the timme and the telephone companies all said - yes please, look at our fees!

then we had the age of the dong-ie dong-ie machines boing boing
( that is me imitating a phone link)

[Old_Geezer]

Do they still do narrow band ?

I think I'd cancel the call girls; it's not as if I can recall what I'm supposed to do with them these days. Memory like a sieve.

[ToraToraTora]

well they all seem to manage 20 B&H a day hymie.

[ToraToraTora]

I've just had City Fibre installed, 500mb! and that's not the fastest!

[Maydup]

Cancel the Sky or Netflix subscriptions, not that I have them to cancel, no takeaways or meal deliveries, and live on vegetables from a market with a few tinned pulses or beans to give nourishment to stews and sauces over pasta.

[Maydup]

Living in the countryside I would keep the broadband and some money for petrol.

[barry1010]

I wonder how many homes have really cancelled the internet?
How many have switched from home broadband to mobile data?

[Maydup]

Most likely the case Barry. And get the teenagers to pay for their own data packages!

[barry1010]

If I didn't want Virgin TV I'd go for mobile data. My friends live on a narrowboat and have got a fantastic mifi service

[bednobs]

i would start off by cancelling after school activities for my daughter (most reluctantly of course).
She does choir, band jam, maths tutoring.
it flipping adds up!

[youngmafbog]

Certainly does Bednobs, but then I always excepted that was the going with private education. The Ski trips etc are even more of a nightmare!

Yes TTT, Sky, Amazon, Netflix all go prior to broadband. After all if you have an internet connections there are many ways of getting entertainment.

For me Internet is a must as I work from home. Indeed my Synology router is connected to a permanent fibre connection and a 5g for back up.

[youngmafbog]

That should have been accepted of course.

[Redhelen72]

What you can cancel is dependant on if you are in contract or not.

For example you cannot just cancel sky if you are in contract - I worked out that their fine is only £30 cheaper than paying the rest of the contract!
Mobile phones too if you are in contract you have to pay heavily to end them early.

[lankeela]

TV Licence. Hardly watch it these days and use catch up to watch Emmerdale on the computer.

[bednobs]

yes ymb, the choir are doing 2 international trips next year - they sounded like a great idea (before we got the payment schedules through!)