A GROWING NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS are skipping TV for smartphones & tablets.

I can understand why. I pay a boatload for TV, internet, landline and wireless phone service. And yet my landline phone is used primarily for ignoring junk calls; of the several hundred cable television channels that are available, I can stomach watching maybe 4 or 5; and my 'broadband' internet access is so clogged with popovers, popunders, and spam that I've hardly got better access than I had with dial-up.

Ninety percent of the money I pay is for communication 'services' I neither use nor want but can't not buy.

It won't be long before I join the 'Zero Services' user group.