Just scheduled a "move of service" with the local phone company, which is also my ISP. Was able to do it all online which was nice, then someone called me within 30 minutes to confirm everything and verify that I did not want home phone service in the new location.
I get the first month free, except for the 2.99 monthly rental on the router/modem - used to be the basic modems came free with the service, but now they make you pick a wired or wireless router and make you pay for it. I got wired as I already have a good wireless router and will just use that if I want wireless for streaming to the TV or whatever.
Sadly even though I requested a self-installation I still had to schedule a time for an installer to come out, I confirmed the necessity of this with the rep who called me... apparently that place never had internet service through the phone company so they have to do something to enable it or so they say. Whatevs, at least there'll be someone there to make sure I do have internet when I'm supposed to. Service at the apartment will be disconnected at the same time it's activated at the condo.
Scary thing is - I know from the previous owner that she never had cable service at that address, which means she didn't get internet from Time Warner. Now I know that she wasn't getting it from the phone company either, unless she was still on dialup.
Anyway - just the internet will cost me about $20 less a month than what I've been paying for internet + phone service at the apartment so that's good. That will make up for the extra $20 in cable box rentals if I decide to add a couple TVs to the condo somewhere down the line.
Altho I think my "promotional" rate for digital cable is about to expire so who knows what that bill is going to be. OTOH I might get in on another promotion when I move the service. Better yet I should just see if I can start fresh with a new account at the new address and pretend to be a new customer, lol. Then I can just cancel the old service outright and return those boxes, one of which needs to be replaced anyway.
The downside with regard to internet service is that the soonest they can get a tech out there to activate it is on 5/18. Well, they could've done it sooner on a weekday and it would be no problem to leave the office and run down there - it's only about 5 minutes away - but I'd rather do it on a Saturday when I'm going to be there all day anyway, it's just less stressful that way.