Hey guys, what are your internet/tv/phone providers?
Here are mine:
Internet:
Charter Internet Plus (10 megs) $54.99
At&t 3g (Iphone)
Tv:
Directv Premier in 5 rooms (HR21 HDDVR in the main room with 40" samsung, HD20 with a 20" edtv in a guest room, HD21 in my bedroom with 24" 1080p lcd, HD21 in dining room with 15" 1080i lcd, D10 non hd in kitchen with 13 pos lcd from 2003), $143
Charter basic cable, 3 rooms (2 as backup since directv can go out in storms, and we need backups since we run backup generators, and a guest room with it as the main tv source) $9.99
Phone:
At&t wireless (2 phones, 3g service for iphone, 700 minutes, unlimited texting, can't beat price) $100
Vonage unlimited plan $24.99
The charter 10 megs is best this area can get. I wish faster internet would show itself here soon, wireless n is pretty much useless except for faster networking :\

55 bucks a month for 10meg net? I don't know much about the infrastructure across the atlantic, but I really thought it was better than what we've got in ole' blighty.
I'm with a company called BeThere - I get a 20meg line for £13.50 a month, which in weird green money is $19.47. Uncapped too.

It's our lovely internet, our providers have a monopoly and use us as cash cows.
We Have the largest semiconductor makers in the world in the US, yet we have crappy internet. I wish somebody would kick their asses.

By the by, what technology is your internet access based on? Cable/ADSL/other?
In the UK, we've got access to both, for the most part. Cable is run by Virgin and it's usually utter crap (there aren't really any other cable net providers as far as I know). ADSL can be offered by any company, masses of competition = good prices. I can imagine that it'd be tougher to get ADSL in certain areas of the states as it really requires you to be near the phone exchange, longer than 2km and you'll struggle to get a decent link.
Of course, as I said I know nothing about stateside infrastructure so I could well be talking out of my arse. Wouldn't be the first time :).

this is average and actually better than some areas. I know of some cable internet providers that charge that much for 3mb download.

You have ADSL+, which can provide up to 24 megs of speed.
Most areas in the US use either DSL (the original crap version that only goes up to 7 megs), cable, and fios.
Alot of areas have ADSL+, with good speeds, Alot of cable areas are going to docsis 3.0, which can go up to 100 megs (and apparantly has an even higher threshold up to 320), and fios which has almost unlimited speeds.
The problem isn't the speeds, or the formats, it's the providers. Verizon is the best, laying out fios in it's areas. Comcast, Cox, Charter, Time warner, are cable companies currently putting out docsis 3.0, fiber to the homes, etc, making better, faster speeds.
The main problem is, areas usually only have 1 phone company and one cable company, which gives the companies a virtual monoply, and some of the bigger companies like at&t practically do nothing.
At&t's fasts dsl speed is 6 megs, and here are the prices:
http://www.att.com/gen/general?pid=6431
the 6 megs is elite dsl, and it's $35 :\

Well, ADSL2+ if we're being pedantic :). Still, that's a pretty sucky situation you've got there. 35 bucks for 6mb is just absurd, but without competition what can you do :\.

16mbit/s uncapped (as in no transfer limit, not meaning that the connection couldn't be faster) DSL from Deutsche Telekom for €50/month, but including 3 ISDN phone lines, free national calls and special rates for calls to cellphones.
Another €50 for my cellphone contract from T-Mobile (unlimited HSDPA, however I'm on a Palm Centro, so I can't actually use it at that speed).
Overall I'm quite satisfied.... the only problem is that I'm getting automatically disconnected every 24 hours to assign me a new IP, they really should think of another solution for that.

Holy crap, Zellio, am I reading that right? You're paying 430 to 435 bucks a month for your services?
Our tv and internet is Shaw cable. We have cable in 2 rooms and only signed up for the basic package (too cheap to pay for more channels that we won't watch anyway). $70.09 (CDN) per month
Phone: Telus. Can't recall the package, but it's about 70 bucks a month. Probably we'll switch to Shaw digital phone, as this will end up saving us money when bundled with the cable and internet.
Oh yeah, I also have a cell phone (Telusmobility) which I rarely use and costs 10 bucks a month (the minimum to keep it topped up with minutes).

332.97.
Check your math ;)

*smile* I was going through your numbers again and again wondering what I might have missed.

Cable companies typically choose not to compete with each other.

D'oh. I added your AT&T phone charge twice.

I think the problem is that it's pretty hard to have real competition in a country where the population density is so low. The telcos know that if they start competing for those people out in the country, than nobody will be able to make a real profit on them.