Chuckles
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join:2006-03-04
Saint Paul, MN | reply to screavic
Re: Well...
So your cell is more.
Either way you need to shop around. You're paying way too much! |
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screavic
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join:2006-08-11
Paron, AR
 ·Verizon Wireless B..
·Alltel Axess
| Our cell phone bill is for 2 cell phones and internet
I can't shop around on landline service cause AT&T is the only provider out here. Either way it goes we are just shutting down our landline service soon cause it's just not worth it.
I don't know if it's just Arkansas in general but all our cell phone and landline services seem high on all carriers. |
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Chuckles
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join:2006-03-04
Saint Paul, MN | Yeah ditch that landline. Why have both? You could put the money towards better things. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to screavic
Time to get a cell phone, and possibly Skype or another VoIP for outgoing house calls.
I pay $3/month for unlimited outbound calls on Skype... and I can put it on my cellphone and use it with WiFi when I'm out of the county in Canada. |
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C0deZer0
Oc'D To Rhythm And Police
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join:2001-10-03
Davenport, FL
 ·Verizon FIOS
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said by Chuckles  :So your cell is more. Either way you need to shop around. You're paying way too much! There is no such thing as "shopping around" for a landline though. You either get whoever is contracted to service your location, or you get nothing.
And up until Verizon started doing "bundle" specials here, just having the landline was another $40/month (with all the un-fees and BS) just to have a functional landline (which wasn't entirely, due to the fact that everything we'd want to call within a mile is a separate area code, and thus long distance  ). It was only as their trucks began laying down the infrastructure that allowed us to finally upgrade to FiOS that we started seeing more "common sense" options for a landline, such as being able to have unlimited calls to anywhere in the US and Puerto Rico off of it. VoIP was an option considered as well, but Bright House at least in this local bit of land is notorious for lousy service, and about the only part of the company that will work regardless of everything else getting SNAFU or FUBAR... is (you guessed it) billing. 
As it is now, I'm currently paying about $67 after all told for a family share plan with two lines. I was looking into getting an iPhone when the contract ends (because then I could pay for AppleCare ONCE and be covered, instead of paying some BS insurance fee every month on contract); problem is, to even have one adds another $30 a month to get the iPhone-specific data plan. Granted, I would be whoring the hell out of the data plan for sure, but that's certainly not an expense I can justify in the foreseeable moment. Maybe if things go well and I can get employed in my field of study, things will look more favorably to that... |
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