We just got our new Altice/Cablevision bill. $266.00. They raised the Internet price from $53 to $103. We also have landlines with Frontier for home ($68) and office ($103.00), Cellphones with A T & T - Smartphone for wife and dumb flip phone for me ($163) and Directory listing - Dex-YP - for office at $24 - Grand Total - $624.00 each and every month. Over $7K per year. Four different companies. Outrageous. We don't even have the premium Cablevision or the fastest connection. The only other cable company is Frontier and they're slower and just as trouble prone. We had a telephone system years ago with Ma Bell that was a regulated monopoly and the best system in the world. Now, we have a hodgepodge crazy quilt of companies with foreign outsourced reps you can barely understand and the price keeps going up. And now it takes up to 20 hours before you can even speak to one.