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High monthly cost, inflexible bundles of channels you never watch, long-term contracts, equipment rental fees, cancellation fees, lousy customer service - why would anyone want cable or satellite TV? There is revolution that has cable and satellite TV providers worried. 1 out of 7 Americans has cut the cord, opting to watch TV using an over-the-air antenna and by streaming video over the Internet. 3 out of 4 adults aged 18 to 29 do not have cable or satellite TV. 71% of cord cutters stated their reason for cutting the cord was the high cost of cable and satellite TV. A survey of cord cutters found the longer they went without cable or satellite TV, the more satisfied they were with their decision to cut the cord. The average cable TV bill is a whopping $103.10 per month - $1,237 a year! Most of us pay more. I will show you how you can easily cut the cord and save $75 or more each month, even if you are paying as little as $100 a month for cable or satellite TV. Think it's not worth the time or effort? The average cord cutter saves $104 a month - $1,248 a year! Now that is some real money! If you are tired of throwing good money away on high cable or satellite TV bills, this book is for you. Are you fed up with channel surfing through 200 channels only to find nothing is on? This book is for the dissatisfied cable or satellite TV customer who is fed up with their provider's high monthly fees, inflexible bundles, long-term contracts, and lousy customer service and wants to enjoy television without emptying their bank account. Let me help you cut the cord and save some big bucks!

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Tom Magrini is the author of six books on computers and technology. He is the author of five books in the best-selling Customizing OS X and Customizing macOS series, which teach Mac users to completely customize their macOS experience with hundreds of tweaks, hacks, secret commands, and hidden features. He has authored Cut the Cord to help others cut their cable or satellite TV cords as he did in 2015 when he ditched his satellite dish. Tom is an information technology professional with over 30 years' experience as an engineer and senior manager. During the work week, Tom is a busy IT director, leading a team of IT professionals who maintain two data centers and the network, telephony, telecommunications infrastructure, server, storage, operating systems, and security infrastructure for a large city. Tom is also a certified ITIL(R) Expert. Tom has taught programming, operating systems, Cisco Networking Academy, and wireless technology courses as a Computer Information Systems professor at two colleges. He has worked for numerous technology companies including SynOptics Communications, Bay Networks, FORE Systems, 3Com, and Cisco Systems, Inc. When Tom isn't writing, or hanging out with his family and dogs, he enjoys reading, movies, writing, baseball, and the beautiful Arizona weather with its 300 days of sunshine. And, of course, Tom enjoys the savings from ditching his satellite dish.

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