How We Make Money

RateWorld is free to use — no comparison fees, no service charges, no markups. This page explains exactly how we get paid, in plain language.

We put you first

RateWorld shows you the internet, TV, mobile and home-security plans that actually qualify at your address — pulled live from provider systems, with the real price, the contract length, and what the bill becomes after the promotional period.

When you find a plan you like, a Plan Pro places the order with the provider over one phone call. You never pay us anything at any point.

How we keep RateWorld free

RateWorld is an authorized reseller for the providers we list. When you activate a plan through us — online or by phone — the provider pays us a referral fee.

That fee comes out of the provider’s marketing budget, not your bill: you pay exactly what you would pay ordering directly from the provider. We never add surcharges, comparison fees, or hidden costs.

What compensation affects — and what it never does

Being honest about this is the whole point of the page:

• Which providers appear: we show the providers we are authorized to retail, so our catalog is not every provider in America.
• What never changes: the plans and prices you see come from live provider qualification for your address — a provider cannot pay to look cheaper or faster than it is.
• Ordering and ranking: results are ordered by plan attributes (price, speed, category), not by who pays us more.
• Regulated transparency: where a provider publishes an FCC Broadband Facts label for a plan, we link it on the plan card.

Questions?

If anything about how we work is unclear, ask us directly — a real person answers.