Posted by The Real Bev on January 28, 2009, 12:43 am
AT&T is raising its price, probably along with everybody else. Almost all our
phone calls are local and the 99-Cent-Store 99-minute LD cards generally expire
with very few minutes used. Monthly rate will probably be $21 or so. As far as
I can tell, the only land-line providers in the L.A. area are AT&T and Verizon,
whose rates are higher than AT&T. Any locals have a better deal?
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Cheers, Bev
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"On the other hand, I live in California so I'd be willing to
squeeze schoolchildren to death if I thought some oil would
come out." -- Scott Adams
Posted by Gordon on January 28, 2009, 6:06 pm
> AT&T is raising its price, probably along with everybody else. Almost
> all our phone calls are local and the 99-Cent-Store 99-minute LD cards
> generally expire with very few minutes used. Monthly rate will
> probably be $21 or so. As far as I can tell, the only land-line
> providers in the L.A. area are AT&T and Verizon, whose rates are
> higher than AT&T. Any locals have a better deal?
>
Why Landline? Have you considered Voice over IP? How about
a Pay-as-You-go or All-You-can-Eat Cell phone plan?
Posted by Dan Birchall on February 28, 2009, 4:18 am
bashley101+mot@gmail.com (The Real Bev) wrote:
> AT&T is raising its price, probably along with everybody else.
> Almost all our phone calls are local and the 99-Cent-Store
> 99-minute LD cards generally expire with very few minutes used.
> Monthly rate will probably be $21 or so. As far as I can tell,
> the only land-line providers in the L.A. area are AT&T and Verizon,
> whose rates are higher than AT&T. Any locals have a better deal?
Do you really need landline? For years, I had a T-mobile prepaid
mobile phone; I could buy scratchcards (everywhere) for $100 that
got me something like 1,000 minutes, and the minutes were good for
a year. I used maybe $10-15 worth of airtime in a month, so I used
up the time in less than a year, but paid less per month than you're
looking at there.
Just a thought.
--
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the
surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90
million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some
indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be..." - Douglas Adams
Posted by larry on February 28, 2009, 6:23 pm
Dan Birchall wrote:
> bashley101+mot@gmail.com (The Real Bev) wrote:
>> AT&T is raising its price, probably along with everybody else.
>> Almost all our phone calls are local and the 99-Cent-Store
>> 99-minute LD cards generally expire with very few minutes used.
>> Monthly rate will probably be $21 or so. As far as I can tell,
>> the only land-line providers in the L.A. area are AT&T and Verizon,
>> whose rates are higher than AT&T. Any locals have a better deal?
>
> Do you really need landline? For years, I had a T-mobile prepaid
> mobile phone; I could buy scratchcards (everywhere) for $100 that
> got me something like 1,000 minutes, and the minutes were good for
> a year. I used maybe $10-15 worth of airtime in a month, so I used
> up the time in less than a year, but paid less per month than you're
> looking at there.
>
> Just a thought.
>
Last week we did the same thing. The new att rates made
going cell only the better choice. A bonus is having just
one number now. We're never going back!
We did try this two years ago but had issues with old tech
that needed a landline and it wasn't clear if we were saving
money. We got hosed by both tmobile, starting another
account, and att, charging a billing change fee. This was
caused by problems when we ported our number back. Just
don't believe anything the cs idiots tell you!
Posted by wilma6116 on February 28, 2009, 9:29 pm
> AT&T is raising its price, probably along with everybody else. Almost all our
> phone calls are local and the 99-Cent-Store 99-minute LD cards generally expire
> with very few minutes used. Monthly rate will probably be $21 or so. As far as
> I can tell, the only land-line providers in the L.A. area are AT&T and Verizon,
> whose rates are higher than AT&T. Any locals have a better deal?
> --
> Cheers, Bev
> ==================================================
============
> "On the other hand, I live in California so I'd be willing to
> squeeze schoolchildren to death if I thought some oil would
> come out." -- Scott Adams
I have a friend who lives in LaLaLand and he gets a landline cheap
because he gets the low income rate. The cutoff for the 'poverty' rate
is quite high and then they seldom even check one's income. His
service for like $5 a month does not allow for long distance and he
gets his internet through DSL Extreme for like $20 a month.
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> all our phone calls are local and the 99-Cent-Store 99-minute LD cards
> generally expire with very few minutes used. Monthly rate will
> probably be $21 or so. As far as I can tell, the only land-line
> providers in the L.A. area are AT&T and Verizon, whose rates are
> higher than AT&T. Any locals have a better deal?
>