Breezeline Bill

SAMIAM · 09-19-2025, 11:54 AM

Just got my bill for basic cable/hardline phone and internet service
$272 plus 89.49 for (taxes ,fees and surcharges plus an unknown fee of $3
Total of $365.07
I could eliminate the hard line and just have cable and WiFi
Were not real savvy of the services available but there must be something better out there

thinkxingu · 09-19-2025, 12:19 PM

That's crazy town. Our Xfinity, family T-Mobile plan (four phones, all unlimited), and Netflix, Paramount+, Hulu, and Apple TV+ services all total $235.

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TheTimeTraveler · 09-19-2025, 06:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SAMIAM

Just got my bill for basic cable/hardline phone and internet service
$272 plus 89.49 for (taxes ,fees and surcharges plus an unknown fee of $3
Total of $365.07
I could eliminate the hard line and just have cable and WiFi
Were not real savvy of the services available but there must be something better out there

We got rid of our cable, and our landline. All we have now is internet, and we stream all of our televisions.

The nice thing about streaming is that you no longer have to tether your television to an actual cable. This means that you can have a television anywhere as long as you have an electrical outlet nearby. No longer any need for a cable at all.

garysanfran · 09-20-2025, 06:36 AM

I think that Breezeline does not offer an internet alone option. All their "packages" include cable. I do have their streaming box and it's great to not have to connect via coax.

What "internet" options are available in Meredith?

RUGMAN · 09-20-2025, 07:17 AM

We got rid of Breezeline, went with Xfinity. 5 years guarantee $65 for 1000 g,
Have U-Tube tv, now about $89. gets more channels than we have ever had.

Biggd · 09-20-2025, 07:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by garysanfran

I think that Breezeline does not offer an internet alone option. All their "packages" include cable. I do have their streaming box and it's great to not have to connect via coax.

What "internet" options are available in Meredith?

I have Breezeline internet only, runs about $80 per month. I've had it for over 10 years now.

TomC · 09-20-2025, 08:19 AM

I have fiber internet from the NHEC which works well, so other members of the household can stream if they want. I live on a hill, and all the Maine station transmitters are due east about 35 miles away, so I get ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox over-the-air and they all have those auxiliary channels with MeTV, Hallmark, etc., available. Best part is that it is completely free, including the Patriots games...

BroadHopper · 09-20-2025, 08:26 AM

Last year I switched from Breezeline to Xfinity. My Breezeline promotion expired and Xfinity promotion was cheaper. This month I switched to Breezeline. The Xfinity promotion expired and Breezeline promotion was cheaper. This time around the Breezeline promotion is locked for 2 years. 500GB broadband and local channels for 80 and change.

bostique · 09-20-2025, 08:33 AM

I have Breezeline internet 100/10 mg service along with free cell service for 1 year and I pay a total of $19.99/month.
It pays to check their website for special offers and speak to managers when calling. This is especially true for seniors and low income families. If you qualify, there are (or were) a lot of federally funded programs that might be able to shrink your bill. I could not be any happier with Breezeline.

smith point boater · 09-20-2025, 12:45 PM

We dumped BL 2yrs ago when bill got to $300

Went with Verizon internet, bought Roku for each TV (about $49 each one time) and signed up for You Tube TV (different than the You Tube app) ~75/month.

After I had all the pieces it took about 2hrs to set up 4 TV's then my wife called and cancelled Breezeline right away - they didn't care

Saving well over $200/month vs 2yrs ago

Good luck

jeffk · 09-20-2025, 05:03 PM

Fidium is available in Moultonborough. You would have to check your specific address. I have 1 gig internet service (slower speeds are available for slightly less) with VOIP phone for $92 per month. I have DirecTV streaming for $95, including local channels and unlimited cloud DVR completely integrated with DirecTV (which I did not have with Breezeline). I got a ROKU streaming stick (that you pay for) and can access basic ROKU services for no charge. $187 per month total.

When I dropped basic Breezeline service (only 300 mbs service), earlier this year my bill was approaching $300 plus a landline phone for about $80. I am saving $193 per month, $2316 per year, and have 3 times faster internet and DVR.

Plus, DirecTV streaming just added (if you have a Gemini Air wireless device, like I do) Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN for no extra charge (there are some limited ads). I am hearing that DirecTV will be raising their rates a bit in the future but with the added channels, if it goes up a little, I am OK with that and if I had kept Breezeline the price would have gone up as well.

Further, there is a plethora of services (HBO Max™, Cinemax®, MGM+, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME®, and STARZ, Peacock, Discovery Plus, Netflix, kids channels, ...) you can get through DirecTV if you want to pay for them and access through the DirecTV interface. They typically run $10 - $20 a month and you can add or drop them on a monthly basic from an online interface. You could turn them on, bing watch for a couple months, then drop them. I have used the interface and it is very easy to add and drop services.

Note: I am not big on sports so I got the Entertainment only package (the cheapest). If you step up to the sports packages, they are more expensive and you have to pay a regional sports fee of about $15 monthly.

Slickcraft · 09-20-2025, 08:15 PM

We have Breezeline internet only, $48.99/month for 250 Mbps. We stream to YouTube TV which and use the same account at home and on Welch. Long ago I bought my own cable modem and router. No rental fees.

Winilyme · 09-20-2025, 10:50 PM

This takes me back to simpler times as a child in 1960s suburban CT when we could only get six or seven over-the-air channels and only a few of those offered decent reception. No matter - as long as I could get the Yankees games - fuzzy as they often were. Who could have dreamed of the options we have today? What a day it was when Dad brought home this new-fangled tech that allowed us to adjust the rooftop antennae automatically from a set top box. In the early 70s he bought a color (we were a bit late to that game) TV that had a sorta-remote control. Was that ever cool...the handheld control along with the wire connecting it to the TV. And, one day, what's this thing called cable TV? And pong sure is fun not to mention Nintendo and all the renditions that have followed. Then the internet followed by plasma TVs, surround sound, LED, 3D TV, OLED, Wifi and all the tech stuff mentioned in this thread.

Makes one wonder how our children will look back on today's tech and compare it to what they will be living with in the future. What's next?

sky's · 09-21-2025, 12:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SAMIAM

Just got my bill for basic cable/hardline phone and internet service
$272 plus 89.49 for (taxes ,fees and surcharges plus an unknown fee of $3
Total of $365.07
I could eliminate the hard line and just have cable and WiFi
Were not real savvy of the services available but there must be something better out there

weve been happy with NH Broadband rates have not changed in 2 years that we've have been here

Garcia · 09-21-2025, 01:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by garysanfran

I think that Breezeline does not offer an internet alone option. All their "packages" include cable. I do have their streaming box and it's great to not have to connect via coax.

What "internet" options are available in Meredith?

More specifically what internet options are available for Bear Island?

NH.Solar · 09-22-2025, 03:34 PM

Regarding your landline... I have a little $75 device called an Obihai that plugs directly into my modem and then the old phones are wired to the Obihai. The system works through Google Voice and will allow me to answer calls using either my old landline phones or my cell phone. Google has VM built right in and will even accept (but not send) text messages. Any VMs and the text messages also show up on my Google email account ...and the monthly cost? zero. I can call anywhere for free and the service is crystal clear.
The best part is that I figured a way to retain my old local 968 home phone number. Google won't allow you to port a landline number to Voice, only cell phone numbers. So what I did was to transfer my 968 number to a throwaway cell phone, and then from that cell to Google Voice. Been working just great for five years now and my total investment was just $75 to buy the Obihai

longislander · 09-22-2025, 04:33 PM

Caveat:
WEB:
Does Obihai still work with Google voice?

"No, the OBiTALK consumer portal, which was necessary for configuring OBi devices with consumer Google Voice, was shut down on October 31, 2024, and OBi devices no longer work with the free Google Voice service. Existing, already-configured devices may continue to function for a time, but there are no guarantees, as Google has ended its support for the integration, and no other hardware devices are compatible with consumer Google Voice."

Cal-to-NH · 09-25-2025, 09:21 AM

Like others, I am considering cutting the cable as well. The combination of NH Broadband with Youtube TV seems to fill the bill, and two of my friends have done this combo. Along with Netflix, HULU and Amazon Prime, I also pay the annual fee for NESN separately because I love my Red Sox and Bruins games. The NESN hurts at $249 a year, but even with that extra $20 a month, it still beats Breezeline and Spectrum by about $100 a month...
The only channel I am still trying to get, and there only seems to be one option, is my History Channel. Hulu advertises that they have it, but it's not a regular History Channel, it's selected series that air on History Channel. There's a small streaming service with only a handful of channels called FRNDLY TV for $6.99 a month, but the History channel is the only one I would watch.
I think in the end you can duplicate the service you currently get from Cable and you would most like to keep. It seems like a little bit of work to do, but you will save money in the end....

Weekend Pundit · Today, 06:18 AM

Just a heads up for some towns in the Lakes Region served by Breezeline, that being Breezeline is operating in some of those towns under an extension of their franchise agreement which expires on December 31, 2025. This is due to a failure of the towns and Breezeline to sign a new 10-year franchise agreement because of Breezeline's violation of the present franchise agreement when they closed their local customer service office in Belmont a few years ago.

If no new franchise agreement is in place in those towns by the above date, Breezeline must stop operations. That means existing customers will lose their cable, Internet, and phone services should that come to pass.

In the past, that might have been disastrous. But with more choices available in some of those towns like Xfinity, Fidium, New Hampshire Broadband, as well Starlink, customers can find a new provider.

09-19-2025, 11:54 AM	#1
SAMIAM Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Moultonborough Posts: 2,923 Thanks: 349 Thanked 1,693 Times in 595 Posts	Breezeline Bill Just got my bill for basic cable/hardline phone and internet service $272 plus 89.49 for (taxes ,fees and surcharges plus an unknown fee of $3 Total of $365.07 I could eliminate the hard line and just have cable and WiFi Were not real savvy of the services available but there must be something better out there

09-20-2025, 06:36 AM	#4
garysanfran Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: San Francisco/Meredith Posts: 1,582 Thanks: 683 Thanked 684 Times in 350 Posts	I think that Breezeline does not offer an internet alone option. All their "packages" include cable. I do have their streaming box and it's great to not have to connect via coax. What "internet" options are available in Meredith? __________________ Gary ~~~~_/) ~~~ ~~~~~~~~

09-20-2025, 08:26 AM	#8
BroadHopper Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Laconia NH Posts: 5,608 Thanks: 3,244 Thanked 1,113 Times in 799 Posts	Last year I switched from Breezeline to Xfinity. My Breezeline promotion expired and Xfinity promotion was cheaper. This month I switched to Breezeline. The Xfinity promotion expired and Breezeline promotion was cheaper. This time around the Breezeline promotion is locked for 2 years. 500GB broadband and local channels for 80 and change. __________________ Someday may never be an actual day.

09-20-2025, 08:33 AM	#9
bostique Junior Member Join Date: May 2015 Location: Meredith, NH Posts: 19 Thanks: 83 Thanked 8 Times in 3 Posts	Breezeline work well for me I have Breezeline internet 100/10 mg service along with free cell service for 1 year and I pay a total of $19.99/month. It pays to check their website for special offers and speak to managers when calling. This is especially true for seniors and low income families. If you qualify, there are (or were) a lot of federally funded programs that might be able to shrink your bill. I could not be any happier with Breezeline.

09-20-2025, 12:45 PM	#10
smith point boater Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: West Alton,NH Posts: 220 Thanks: 343 Thanked 101 Times in 60 Posts	What Rugman said We dumped BL 2yrs ago when bill got to $300 Went with Verizon internet, bought Roku for each TV (about $49 each one time) and signed up for You Tube TV (different than the You Tube app) ~75/month. After I had all the pieces it took about 2hrs to set up 4 TV's then my wife called and cancelled Breezeline right away - they didn't care Saving well over $200/month vs 2yrs ago Good luck

09-19-2025, 12:19 PM	#2
thinkxingu Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2014 Posts: 6,419 Thanks: 1,180 Thanked 2,133 Times in 1,322 Posts	That's crazy town. Our Xfinity, family T-Mobile plan (four phones, all unlimited), and Netflix, Paramount+, Hulu, and Apple TV+ services all total $235. Sent from my SM-S931U using Tapatalk

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09-20-2025, 07:17 AM	#5
RUGMAN Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: weirs beach, Posts: 309 Thanks: 39 Thanked 42 Times in 34 Posts	We got rid of Breezeline, went with Xfinity. 5 years guarantee $65 for 1000 g, Have U-Tube tv, now about $89. gets more channels than we have ever had.

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09-20-2025, 08:19 AM	#7
TomC Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Lakes Region Posts: 732 Thanks: 29 Thanked 125 Times in 81 Posts	I have fiber internet from the NHEC which works well, so other members of the household can stream if they want. I live on a hill, and all the Maine station transmitters are due east about 35 miles away, so I get ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox over-the-air and they all have those auxiliary channels with MeTV, Hallmark, etc., available. Best part is that it is completely free, including the Patriots games...

09-20-2025, 05:03 PM	#11
jeffk Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Center Harbor Posts: 1,187 Thanks: 210 Thanked 457 Times in 262 Posts	Fidium is available in Moultonborough. You would have to check your specific address. I have 1 gig internet service (slower speeds are available for slightly less) with VOIP phone for $92 per month. I have DirecTV streaming for $95, including local channels and unlimited cloud DVR completely integrated with DirecTV (which I did not have with Breezeline). I got a ROKU streaming stick (that you pay for) and can access basic ROKU services for no charge. $187 per month total. When I dropped basic Breezeline service (only 300 mbs service), earlier this year my bill was approaching $300 plus a landline phone for about $80. I am saving $193 per month, $2316 per year, and have 3 times faster internet and DVR. Plus, DirecTV streaming just added (if you have a Gemini Air wireless device, like I do) Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN for no extra charge (there are some limited ads). I am hearing that DirecTV will be raising their rates a bit in the future but with the added channels, if it goes up a little, I am OK with that and if I had kept Breezeline the price would have gone up as well. Further, there is a plethora of services (HBO Max™, Cinemax®, MGM+, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME®, and STARZ, Peacock, Discovery Plus, Netflix, kids channels, ...) you can get through DirecTV if you want to pay for them and access through the DirecTV interface. They typically run $10 - $20 a month and you can add or drop them on a monthly basic from an online interface. You could turn them on, bing watch for a couple months, then drop them. I have used the interface and it is very easy to add and drop services. Note: I am not big on sports so I got the Entertainment only package (the cheapest). If you step up to the sports packages, they are more expensive and you have to pay a regional sports fee of about $15 monthly.

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09-20-2025, 08:15 PM	#12
Slickcraft Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Welch Island and The Taylor Community Posts: 3,334 Thanks: 1,243 Thanked 2,118 Times in 968 Posts	We have Breezeline internet only, $48.99/month for 250 Mbps. We stream to YouTube TV which and use the same account at home and on Welch. Long ago I bought my own cable modem and router. No rental fees.

09-20-2025, 10:50 PM	#13
Winilyme Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2019 Location: Ice in = CT / Ice out = Winnipesaukee Posts: 536 Thanks: 156 Thanked 309 Times in 167 Posts	TV Tech This takes me back to simpler times as a child in 1960s suburban CT when we could only get six or seven over-the-air channels and only a few of those offered decent reception. No matter - as long as I could get the Yankees games - fuzzy as they often were. Who could have dreamed of the options we have today? What a day it was when Dad brought home this new-fangled tech that allowed us to adjust the rooftop antennae automatically from a set top box. In the early 70s he bought a color (we were a bit late to that game) TV that had a sorta-remote control. Was that ever cool...the handheld control along with the wire connecting it to the TV. And, one day, what's this thing called cable TV? And pong sure is fun not to mention Nintendo and all the renditions that have followed. Then the internet followed by plasma TVs, surround sound, LED, 3D TV, OLED, Wifi and all the tech stuff mentioned in this thread. Makes one wonder how our children will look back on today's tech and compare it to what they will be living with in the future. What's next?

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09-22-2025, 03:34 PM	#16
NH.Solar Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2017 Location: Jackson Pond, New Hampton Posts: 245 Thanks: 48 Thanked 142 Times in 79 Posts	Regarding your landline... I have a little $75 device called an Obihai that plugs directly into my modem and then the old phones are wired to the Obihai. The system works through Google Voice and will allow me to answer calls using either my old landline phones or my cell phone. Google has VM built right in and will even accept (but not send) text messages. Any VMs and the text messages also show up on my Google email account ...and the monthly cost? zero. I can call anywhere for free and the service is crystal clear. The best part is that I figured a way to retain my old local 968 home phone number. Google won't allow you to port a landline number to Voice, only cell phone numbers. So what I did was to transfer my 968 number to a throwaway cell phone, and then from that cell to Google Voice. Been working just great for five years now and my total investment was just $75 to buy the Obihai __________________ Peter NH Solar

09-22-2025, 04:33 PM	#17
longislander Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Moultonborough Posts: 552 Thanks: 49 Thanked 101 Times in 76 Posts	Caveat: WEB: Does Obihai still work with Google voice? "No, the OBiTALK consumer portal, which was necessary for configuring OBi devices with consumer Google Voice, was shut down on October 31, 2024, and OBi devices no longer work with the free Google Voice service. Existing, already-configured devices may continue to function for a time, but there are no guarantees, as Google has ended its support for the integration, and no other hardware devices are compatible with consumer Google Voice."

09-25-2025, 09:21 AM	#18
Cal-to-NH Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Moultonborough Posts: 111 Thanks: 15 Thanked 55 Times in 26 Posts	Yes, there are options Like others, I am considering cutting the cable as well. The combination of NH Broadband with Youtube TV seems to fill the bill, and two of my friends have done this combo. Along with Netflix, HULU and Amazon Prime, I also pay the annual fee for NESN separately because I love my Red Sox and Bruins games. The NESN hurts at $249 a year, but even with that extra $20 a month, it still beats Breezeline and Spectrum by about $100 a month... The only channel I am still trying to get, and there only seems to be one option, is my History Channel. Hulu advertises that they have it, but it's not a regular History Channel, it's selected series that air on History Channel. There's a small streaming service with only a handful of channels called FRNDLY TV for $6.99 a month, but the History channel is the only one I would watch. I think in the end you can duplicate the service you currently get from Cable and you would most like to keep. It seems like a little bit of work to do, but you will save money in the end....

Today, 06:18 AM	#19
Weekend Pundit Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Gilford Posts: 355 Thanks: 26 Thanked 70 Times in 43 Posts	Breezeline Going Away? Just a heads up for some towns in the Lakes Region served by Breezeline, that being Breezeline is operating in some of those towns under an extension of their franchise agreement which expires on December 31, 2025. This is due to a failure of the towns and Breezeline to sign a new 10-year franchise agreement because of Breezeline's violation of the present franchise agreement when they closed their local customer service office in Belmont a few years ago. If no new franchise agreement is in place in those towns by the above date, Breezeline must stop operations. That means existing customers will lose their cable, Internet, and phone services should that come to pass. In the past, that might have been disastrous. But with more choices available in some of those towns like Xfinity, Fidium, New Hampshire Broadband, as well Starlink, customers can find a new provider.