Cord Cutter Diary: Part 3 – "They just keep moving the little sucker, don't they?"

In the early evening of Sunday night, March 1, about 12 days after cutting the cord, there is a headline in my e-mail inbox. AT&T has yet ANOTHER offering for streaming. How many ways can one company flip-flop on their plans for The Future?

But seriously... this is becoming a real problem for AT&T, as the people who have been cord-cutting up until recently have been focused on the details of making this choice, and when you significantly change your offering four times in a year, there is a loss of trust that becomes more and more corrosive.

Still, as someone who is in the early stages of being a cord cutter, my family and I still want to have easy access to more than we could ever consume. We are greedy. And we are willing to pay a reasonable price. So digging into the "AT&T TV" offering (that's the name, don't get to used to it!), I went...

This is for the XTRA plan. That's almost all the programming they have. That first three months is with free premium channels, which adds $54 in mo…