Going Mobile: Our yearlong experiment without cable internet
This month our smartphone using, Netflix-streaming family of four wrapped up a yearlong experiment in cable cutting. Mainly it was just my wife and I, since all our toddlers had to give up was the PBS-Kids streaming app. With our hotspot enabled smart phones and their 8GB of data, we weren’t exactly off the grid, but it was certainly an adjustment. My wife and I are pretty typical Millennials when it comes to internet use. We were both early adopters of smartphones, and pretty invested in an all-digital, paper free lifestyle. We don’t have a checkbook, because we pay all our bills online. We don’t own a printer, because we never print anything besides baseball tickets. We also went two years without a DVD player, because, who needs one with Netflix and Hulu? Despite all this, when our monthy Comcast bill hit $65, it was just too much and we told them to turn it off, we would just get by using hotspots from our LTE smartphones (4GB each, plus unlimited music streaming). The