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12/15/2003 Entry: "CEBRIDGE CONNECTIONS"

CEBRIDGE CONNECTIONS

We subscribe to basic cable service plus their internet high speed service. The latter is more important to me than the former. This combined service costs us $55.85 a month. $5.95 of it is the Basic TV service. There are a whole bunch of taxes included in that that is hard to sort through. We get $10 off the price of the basic service since I have the internet service too.

I called to see what it would cost to go from the basic TV service to the "Expanded Basic" service and it is $24.95 a month, plus a one time hook up fee of $24.95. I find it strange that it costs the same to have Mark come make the connection at the pole as it does for the monthly service.

Now, if you order HBO at their special rate of $7.95 a month for six months (after that time it goes up to their regular monthly rate...probably $10) you don't have to pay the $24.95 hook up fee. I don't need HBO. The one time we did have it on a trial basis many years ago, it was a lot like being in the Adult Arcade. No thanks.

I think I'll pass.