The government has a program to cut your Internet bill. Verizon is using it to force you onto a new

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2. Interesting, this analysis matches my instincts when I received a text message a couple of days ago

I'm on a special program with AT&T in which I pay only $10 a month for WiFi service. I use Roku for streaming TV and all of my devices. I've been on this program for the past five years.

For two days in a row, I've received text notifications of this program. There are times when I'm tempted to return to cable, but cable companies have jacked up their rates so ridiculously high, in some cases here over $200 monthly for extra access "packages".

Anything that includes MSNBC is going to be around that much a month. That discount offer is no incentive for me.

I also intuited the cable services would simply jack up their rates even higher.

I'll stick to my current Wifi service and my Roku TV and streaming service devices for $10 a month and no additional charges.