Vuvuzela, without telling exactly
where you live, are you in a Verizon telco or ATT telco area? Or some other telco. Telco = telephone company. Telephone company areas for land line (home phone service) do NOT overlap.
If Verizon or ATT, Verizon has FiOS (fiber optic) in some areas. ATT has Uverse. If you telco does not have FiOS or Uverse, then your service will be copper pairs. Most
WIRELESS companies provide service in most of the US, the service areas usually about the same.
As far as your choice... it really is a choice. Do you want the telephone company or the cable company. Each will provide the TV/phone/internet. You will just have to review your options and decide which satisfies your needs. Opinions seem to indicate fiber optic is the best choice.
Regardless of your choice, your TV isn't likely to have large options for foreign programming, other than BBCAmerica, which I think is usually fairly old programming. You might want to take a look at a
Roku and some add on options, such as
PlayOn with
PlayOn Scripts For about a hundred or so bucks (american, Roku, PlayOn and Scripts included) you can get recent programming from about anywhere on the planet, in some cases live. The PlayOn page will list devices
other than the Roku that will provide the same service.
Stand by for input from other posters.
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