Cutting the cable

We use Cablevision Flow/Fibertel with 100Mb Internet and hundreds of cable channels we never watch. For this we're paying around AR$2800 which seems to increase every month, just like everything else.

There are other players in the market including Telecentro and Claro fibre optic.

Telecentro 100Mb is $1876 with IP phone and hundreds of HD cable channels over IP.

Claro 100Mb fibre optic is $950 with one IP phone line.

Considering we only watch Netflix and sometimes Argentine news channels and football/rugby when there's a major championship, I don't think it's going to be a difficult decision, as we're burning money at this rate.

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We have Telecentro in Capital and I think we have some TV deal, but we never watch TV, just Netflix and Amazon Prime.

The more Telecentro calls us to upgrade our TV package, the more free trial time we get on TV. I think we have never paid for it to this date. We are genuinely not interested in TV, and always tell the Telecentro guy we just want the internet and he/she throws in a basic TV package.

We pay about 1100 ARS for Internet 100 MB. It is a discount deal that my husband got over the phone for some unknown reason. The connection is good, we some downtime once per month.

I love this post. Just goes to show that in Argentina, anything is possible.

Having just received the latest Cablevision/Fibertel bill for over AR$3000, I called Claro on Tuesday and today the technician has just finished connecting us to 100Mbps +phone for AR$750 per month. It's fixed for one year, with the first month free of charge and we decided not to go for the TV package, because the object of the exercise is to save money.

Because of the way Fibertel do their billing, we have until 15th June to cut their service, so we're trying Claro until then, after which we'll disconnect from Fibertel.

I've no complaints about Fibertel, except their extortionate prices and grateful that finally there's competition in the marketplace.

Here's our speed on Claro fibre optic, which is quite tasty actually.

I think you're referring to dual band routers which offer access at 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz. You'll notice the two when you do a WiFi search in your house. Older devices only use the 2.4Ghz band which is pretty fast anyway.

yes, we have one of those, but at 100mbps it's hard to tell much difference in the speed.

serafina

You mentioned Prime and I gather we can now get it here. Do you use it for your European account or did you start here?

Also, I know it's cheaper than Amazon at $2.99/pm, but what I can't find are current listings. How would I know what we're getting?

I can't tell if this page is for Arg or US or both, for example.

https://www.primevideo.com/sto…movie/ref=atv_nb_sf_mv_wk

I hasten to add that we have a smart TV with prime installed.

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Splinter

Will fibertel charge you when you cancel, to collect and remove their service and boxes?

Not that I'm aware of, mate. I just take the gizmos back to the shop and that's it.

I prefer the Prime interface to that of Netflix and also that prime doesn't shove noisy clips down your gob.

Quote from GlasgowJohn

My Claro is working just great . I have the phone , tv and internet package and so far no complaints

Ours is too mate and I think we made a very good decision. Here's our speed.