Please help me reduce my bills!

[BednBreakfast]

Any advice appreciated on this one!
I am paying:
$200 a month for cable (Directv, was $40 when I signed up 5 years ago)
$300-350 a month for Telefonica plus 3mb Speedy (I make few calls)

Telecentro do a $200 a month deal for the 3 services but a. I've heard the tv is all in Spanish, b. I need the phone line for Prosegur alarm system and don't know if it can hook up through a digital line.
Any advice on what to do and which service provider to use? Thanks in advance.

 

[scotttswan]

Telecentro have the usual bunch of yank channels in english and a few more with sap if you get their hd digital box (not sure if it works with their normal digital but i would presume so)

their phoneline works with their cable router. the only problem being if the cable is down the phoneline is down so this might not suit your needs.

 

[ndcj]

For a start, call DirecTV and tell them you want to cancel. They'll transfer you to the retentions department where you can negotiate a sweet deal for three to six months.

After three to six months, rinse and repeat. So far, I've been paying around $135 for all the channels, one HD decoder, one standard decoder and all the HD channels and all the movie channels for about a year.

 

[bebero]

I would make a combo of fibertel and cablevision for around 200 pesos, depending on what service you get, and get a regular phone line with the basic payment per month. you'll barely spend money on that.

 

[OutLaw]

Bebero took it away the words from my mouth the best choise its make your own combo: Fibertel+Cablevision for $200 and a regular phone line where you could keep your alarm sistem and make your few calls. "Total: $250" we could say rounding. That would be the half you are paying currently.

 

[BednBreakfast]

Thanks all, looks like step one is to see if I can get a special deal by threatening to cancel services. Telefonica actually offered me a free netbook and slightly lower rate if I continued my same Speedy plan for the next 2 years. That's when I realised how much I was overpaying...