Frugal

We all know in this forum to regularly have the conversation with our ISP on price increases where they either give or you leave. I had the convo twice this year with my ISP, Ziply (who was bought last year by Bell Canada) and was told to pound sand.

The major phone providers rolled out 5g 5+ years ago and also slowly started offering wireless internet as a home internet service. There was lots of variability in service quality depending on city and wireless provider and overall it has continued to improve. What was (predictably) disappointing was that major providers, including discount wireless and even MNVOs had stubbornly high prices for wireless home internet--until fairly recently. While service speed, quality and price will still vary and depending on your needs it may not suffice but, I wanted to share that it may be worth looking at (or looking at it again if you explored in the past) as both the quality has impressed me so far and the pricing is finally where it should be. With regular/legacy internet providers continuing to jack up prices to pad their margins and consolidation continuing apace in the industry, price increases will continue to eat away at your monthly budget.

I use Mint(T-mob MNVO) as my cell provider and they finally started offering a discount for signing up for wireless home internet; $30/month if you pay a year at a time and are also a wireless phone customer. T-mobile and verizon have 5g wireless service available on their website for $35/mo. AT&T of course lists it for $55 as they've always been overpriced, there may be other affordable options worth considering. If you have any good pricing options for your area/region and thoughts on your service experience please feel free to share in the comments.

I got my home gateway this week for Mint and speeds were far in excess of what I was hoping for; 500+mbps down and ~90mbps up with 25-35ms ping. As this was better than the 300/300 fiber I was paying for and not any meaningful experience difference I'm stoked to almost halve my internet bill and wanted to pass this along. Good luck!

Edit: adding cap info as it came up a few times: Mint's home "internet" is unlimited data but in the fine print it's a 1TB cap per month after which your data/traffic may be shaped, slowed, deprioritized, etc. Obviously only a marketer would call that "unlimited", though I doubt most average users would hit 1tb in a month. Other carrier policies may vary.