Sorry to hear that, Clarkie, I feel your pain and have only just recently managed to ditch that horrible situation myself. I count myself lucky that I now pay £16 per month for unlimited mobile broadband that also has unlimited tether. In means I can call, text, and use as much data as I wish, and it doesn't matter whether I use a TV, a computer or a tablet, it all just uses my phone as a broadband modem and connects me to the internet that way.

The icing on the cake is that because the sim it uses is installed in my phone, I have those abilities wherever I have my phone. Before that, I was being bled senseless by a landline-based broadband provider, which actually cost me over double that amount and wasn't even unlimited. So just in case you have not thought about it, look into the best unlimited mobile broadband you can get, cause over here, it actually works out better and cheaper than a landline, a lot better and a lot cheaper!

This might have happened in the US as well.