How To Get Hbo Go When Service Provider Doesnt Offer

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For all the talk most television networks and cablevision providers jumping into the 21st century with apps for accessing premium entertainment on the go, through but about whatsoever device, cablevision cutters are all to painfully enlightened of one huge caveat – you take to be subscribed to your cable or satellite television provider in order to enjoy premium telly shows on your devices.

HBO, by and big the nigh prominent provider of original telly shows, has an excellent HBO Go service available on multiple platforms, but once again – you need to be a cable customer which means paying a ridiculous cable neb of hundred bucks per calendar month or more.

Merely it doesn't have to be this way. Turns out you can in fact savor shows like Game of Thrones, True Detective, The Leftovers, Silicon Valley and more than, without committing your soul to a cablevision provider. You only need to know the magic word to keep HBO without paying for the additional 500 channels yous never watch…

Geoffrey Fowler wrote a overnice article over at The Wall Street Journal about exposing "the hole-and-corner code" to getting HBO without paying for a big cable package.

I should indicate out that only a scattering of biggest providers seem to exist willing to compromise with their customers who but want access to HBO.

Here'south what you demand to ask for:

Comcast: "Internet Plus"
Time Warner Cable: "Starter TV+HBO and an Internet programme"
Verizon FiOS: "fifty/25 Mbps + Local News and Sports + HBO (or First)"
AT&T U-poetry: "HBO Internet Plus"

A word of caution:

A alert anytime you try to downgrade or cutting off service: Cable companies sometimes can unfortunately make things confusing, or even confrontational, with their customers.

They could at any time alter the names of these special options, or ditch them completely. Either move would be the wrong choice. If they do, or hassle you lot to proceed higher-paying services, but keep saying: "I want Internet and HBO."

You'll be basically downgrading your total-blown subscription to a cheaper package with less content and services so it pays to counterbalance for yourself if you lot can do without hundreds of additional channels you never actually watch anyway.

Equally a bonus, the aforementioned basic service packages are way cheaper than higher-tier services they tricked y'all into ownership. If you've ever dealt with the likes of Comcast and others, you're enlightened these conglomerates leverage the popularity of HBO to upsell you to their well-nigh expensive offerings.

The toll difference alone is worth spending some time yelling at your customer service representative over the phone.

Specifically, the author of the article was able to downgrade his triple-play Comcast family unit subscription to the more affordable "Internet Plus" with a few basic channels (HBO and HBO Go included) and broadband Internet, cutting his monthly bill from $212 to but $75.

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The downgrade eliminated landline phone service through the cable company, but who needs a stock-still line these days?

It's of import to keep in mind that yous're still required to subscribe to some kind of service to get HBO. That's because HBO to this appointment refuses to offer online-only subscriptions for cable-cutters who'd like to savour premium HBO shows on their reckoner and mobile devices.

Of course, y'all could always infringe a friend's HBO login and practise away with your cable package altogether but an HBO spokesman cautioned that those logins are "limited to those residing in the dwelling."

Hopefully, this pull a fast one on volition work for y'all. If then, please share your experience with fellow readers down in the comments.