You want Streaming Video, not regular TV!

Everyone wants TV, but many sign up with a contract and may miss out on an important option: Streaming Video. TV that comes to you via Wi-Fi.

Here is the deal: TV signal is not the same as Wi-Fi, so your TV modem receives the signal and converts it to the images your TV shows you. Dandy. If you like to watch 60 Minutes on Sunday evening at 7, fine. But if you miss the program, you lose. As with any TV show you like, if you miss it for some reason, you missed it, period! That is a big problem with dedicated TV service from Comcast, and of course that is an expensive service!

You need to get cheap Wi-Fi (read how...), also called Internet service. Same thing. and curiously, Wi-Fi does not stand fora longer name! But it is the signal that brings e-mai; and text messages to your phone, and Netflix, and Google, and any searching done with your Smartphone. Yes, your cellphone typically offers unlimited calling and a certain limited amount of Data! Data is how tha phone delivers anything that is not a voice call! Yes, they are two different things that can both work on your phone. but unless you have a Smart TV, no Netflix. A Smart TV does not need Wi-Fi, but you are still missing out. Read why... So that is a lot of info to get to this point: You will get more TV and for ;esss money if you dump the TV signal and just go with Wi-Fi!

You need to know that there is a real chance you have or can get a SNAP card (read about this)! Yes, the "food stamp" program that now issues an EBT card if you qualify. You will think it odd to learn that a food ticket can get you Internet access for just $10 a month, no contract, no rental fees. That $10 means you can get Apps that bring in streaming services for ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS. plus a list of other services you will eventually find on your own. 

Yes, most of these apps cost a monthly fee, but nothing over $10, and a few are less, and NBC is free! Now for the kicker: Streaming services now include the libraries of most shows that were or still are on TV. Now you can opt to start watching 30 Rock from the first show and on. Or look back to that show you missed on Sunday and watch it on Tuesday. Streaming video has created a class of previous cable subscribers now called Cord Cutters. What was once casting $80 and more can now be had for half the price but with severalties more to watch!

Now you need to know about how to get this onto your big screen TV. Two ways: Again with the Amazon. There is a Fire Stick and also a Fire Tablet. If you have a Smartphone, you can put the apps on your phone, then use a FireStick to mirror the images from your phone onto the TV! If you do not yet have a smartphone, you can get a really affordable Fire Tablet and that also will mirror to the TV with a Fire Stick.

Why would you want both the Amazon Fire Tablet and a Fire TV Stick? The Fire tablet is your access to the Internet! You can browse with Google, shop for shoes and groceries, read about Mexico, learn a new language! The World is now available, all because you have $10 wi-fi and a $50 tablet. Less than a month of Comcast.

Thanks for posting this. It is an improvement on what started as a mandated price to allow BASIC service that was $10, offered by both Comcast and AT&T. This new version, the ACP sounds better but is a little confusing to me!

It's better because it seems to apply to people who already have an Internet service because it offers a flexible amount up to $30 off an existing bill. I think that might be based on speed of the download? My AT&T Basic Access is pretty slow (only 6 mbps! It does work okay, but in my business I had 16 mbps and I that that was slow! 

I plan to apply for ACP, maybe I can drop my admittedly cheap Wi-Fi from $10 to $0! I will report whatever develops.\\PS: Curious about your sped? Put "Speedtest" into a Google search and it offers several sites that run a test. It's fast and free, and you will learn what your download and upload speeds are.