If you read personal finance blogs, you will see people finding ways to lower the monthly bills on Internet, Phone, Cable connection bills. I have been doing that for last few years and saved bunch of $$$. Our Time Warner Internet bill went up from $34.95 to $54.95. By default you will get Road Runner Standard 7 Mbps connection.
How to Lower the Bill
I called Time Warner Customer Service last evening and asked to speak to Customer Retention department, they handle requests like cancellation and discounts to bill. Don’t waste your time explaining the problem to Customer Rep who answers your call first.
Usually companies will give low monthly rate, if you can show a competitor with lower price, but this time around, I just asked to lower the rates to same $34.95 and they gave it to me for next 12 months.
It took about 5 minutes including the wait time and savings over $240 over next 12 months. Same rules apply to Dish Network, Vonageor other service providers. Let me know if you had success in lowering monthly bills?