{"id":8448,"date":"2022-10-03T16:05:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=9410"},"modified":"2022-10-03T17:00:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T21:00:20","slug":"are-you-paying-too-much-for-internet-or-cellular-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/are-you-paying-too-much-for-internet-or-cellular-connectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Paying Too Much for Internet or Cellular Connectivity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve recently worked with a few clients who were paying too much for their Internet or cellular service. Internet service providers (ISPs) and cellular carriers occasionally adjust their service plans to account for new technologies, economies of scale, changing competitive landscapes, and marketing efforts. Sometimes they\u2019ll increase speeds or capabilities across the board, but more often, when they debut new plans, current customers are grandfathered into their existing plans, often without notification. Upgrading to a new, better plan is usually simple\u2014first, check the plan details on your ISP\u2019s or cellular carrier\u2019s website. Then, if they look better or cheaper\u2014or if you don\u2019t remember what service levels you should be getting\u2014call the company\u2019s support line and ask if switching plans would be beneficial. Beware that they may try to upsell you on a more expensive plan, so agree to switch only if you\u2019ll end up paying less or getting significantly more. Remember, more speed isn\u2019t necessarily worthwhile\u2014most people won\u2019t notice the difference between 250 Mbps and 1 Gbps, for instance.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve recently worked with a few clients who were paying too much for their Internet or cellular service. Internet service providers (ISPs) and cellular carriers occasionally adjust their service plans to account for new technologies, economies of scale, changing competitive landscapes, and marketing efforts. Sometimes they\u2019ll increase speeds or capabilities across the board, but more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,8,112,185,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-iphone","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech","category-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8458,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448\/revisions\/8458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}