Posted by jkutti2000 on April 18, 2006, 10:17 am
folks.
I have fine tuned my Landline phone services.. SBC in dallas.Tx.
see my bill.details,
this is the bare minimum I can get it... maybe I;ll take Call waiting
off too. but it is handy.
.
there is one INLINE protection which I unknowlingly had subscribed to
for years.. they claim that they will fix the jacks in my house.. now I
am on my own... phew!
also, if i want my number to be unlisted..un published.. its like 5$
extra.. .. phew..
Please note. thru SBC, I have no LD carrier listed.. once I had taken
their LD.. andit was supposed to be free.. and 25C/min. US.. etc. i was
fine with that.. then all of a sudden they UNILATERALLY put a 3$ charge
for that service... and when I called , they said that it I was
notified in the fine print in my previous bill..
.. I cancelled. immediately.
so who knows.. what extra charge they can concoct up on me .... I just
keep looking..
how does this compare to other folks..
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Plans and Services
Monthly Service - Apr 1 thru Apr 30
1-01 Basic Local Service-Residence
11.05
1-02 Call Waiting
2.80
1-03 Touchtone
.18
Total Monthly Service
14.03
Surcharges and Other Fees
1-04 Federal Subscriber Line Charge
5.25
1-05 911 Service Fee
.20
1-06 TX TIF Reimbursement
.25
1-07 Federal Universal Service Fee
.57
1-08 Texas Universal Service
.85
1-09 Expanded Local Calling Service
.04
1-10 TX Rate Grp Reclass Surcharge
.93
1-11 Municipal Charge
1.12
Total Surcharges and Other Fees
9.21
Taxes
1-12 Federal (Local Charges)
.69
1-13 Federal (Non-regulated & Toll Charges)
.01
1-14 State and Local (Local Charges)
1.88
1-15 State and Local (Non-regulated & Toll Charges)
.02
Total Taxes
2.60
Total Plans and Services
25.84
Amount Subject to Sales Tax: 23.04
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by the way, I have SBC YAHOO dsl for 15 bucks more and sunrocket for
16.66- VOIP unlimited us/canada.. 3 way.. caller id.. call waiting..
etc etc.. etc.. "the whole shebang".plus 3 bucks free international
calls each month..
so my total for ALL THE CALLING I CAN DO.. plus conveinence of 2
lines.. plus BROADBAND is......57-58$..
Posted by C. Massey on April 18, 2006, 11:08 am
> folks.
> I have fine tuned my Landline phone services.. SBC in dallas.Tx.
> see my bill.details,
> this is the bare minimum I can get it... maybe I;ll take Call waiting
> off too. but it is handy.
> .
> there is one INLINE protection which I unknowlingly had subscribed to
> for years.. they claim that they will fix the jacks in my house.. now I
> am on my own... phew!
> also, if i want my number to be unlisted..un published.. its like 5$
> extra.. .. phew..
> Please note. thru SBC, I have no LD carrier listed.. once I had taken
> their LD.. andit was supposed to be free.. and 25C/min. US.. etc. i was
> fine with that.. then all of a sudden they UNILATERALLY put a 3$ charge
> for that service... and when I called , they said that it I was
> notified in the fine print in my previous bill..
> .. I cancelled. immediately.
> so who knows.. what extra charge they can concoct up on me .... I just
> keep looking..
> how does this compare to other folks..
>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Plans and Services
> Monthly Service - Apr 1 thru Apr 30
> 1-01 Basic Local Service-Residence
> 11.05
> 1-02 Call Waiting
> 2.80
> 1-03 Touchtone
> .18
> Total Monthly Service
> 14.03
> Surcharges and Other Fees
> 1-04 Federal Subscriber Line Charge
> 5.25
> 1-05 911 Service Fee
> .20
> 1-06 TX TIF Reimbursement
> .25
> 1-07 Federal Universal Service Fee
> .57
> 1-08 Texas Universal Service
> .85
> 1-09 Expanded Local Calling Service
> .04
> 1-10 TX Rate Grp Reclass Surcharge
> .93
> 1-11 Municipal Charge
> 1.12
> Total Surcharges and Other Fees
> 9.21
> Taxes
> 1-12 Federal (Local Charges)
> .69
> 1-13 Federal (Non-regulated & Toll Charges)
> .01
> 1-14 State and Local (Local Charges)
> 1.88
> 1-15 State and Local (Non-regulated & Toll Charges)
> .02
> Total Taxes
> 2.60
> Total Plans and Services
> 25.84
> Amount Subject to Sales Tax: 23.04
I'm in Ft. Worth, so we are practically next door. I looked at my bill and
never realized that caller id was $9.95 per month. I thought that it was $5
or less.
We have the same charges that you do other than we have caller id and do not
have call waiting. I saw three 1411 charges that we normally don't make (and
I will find out why they were made!) that costs us a total of $3.75. I also
saw a $0.25 charge for a local number that was called and I will be calling
SBC/ATT to find out why it was a toll call.
Best I can figure, our phone portion of the bill was $38.50 and that is
ridiculous!
I will be checking into getting cable internet instead of DSL, shutting off
the landline phones and upping our minutes on our cell phones... Wonder if
it's worth doing that?
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Posted by Bob Ward on April 18, 2006, 11:15 pm
On 18 Apr 2006 18:27:18 -0700, lenagainster@gmail.com wrote:
>C. Massey wrote:
>> I will be checking into getting cable internet instead of DSL, shutting off
>> the landline phones and upping our minutes on our cell phones... Wonder if
>> it's worth doing that?
>The big problem with shutting off your landline and strictly using the
>cellphone is that you have to keep that thing with you all the time.
>What about VOIP if you have cable or FiOS? VOIP is cheaper than a
>landline with features out the gazoo.
>Lena
Why do you have to keep "that thing" with you all the time? I'll
agree that it's certainly an option that does not exist for a land
line, but there is absolutely no reason that you HAVE to keep the
phone with you if you don't andicipate making or recieving a call.
Hint: You don't HAVE to answer it - it will happily take a message
and allows you to play it back when it is convenient for you to
listen.
Posted by rob on April 19, 2006, 7:26 am
On 18 Apr 2006 18:27:18 -0700, lenagainster@gmail.com wrote:
>C. Massey wrote:
>> I will be checking into getting cable internet instead of DSL, shutting off
>> the landline phones and upping our minutes on our cell phones... Wonder if
>> it's worth doing that?
>The big problem with shutting off your landline and strictly using the
>cellphone is that you have to keep that thing with you all the time.
>What about VOIP if you have cable or FiOS? VOIP is cheaper than a
>landline with features out the gazoo.
>Lena
From what I have heard (no personal experience) is that VOIP is not
always clear and like the internet is subject to go down periodically.
I think that's where the landline has the only advantages. I agree
tho, VOIP is a better bang for the buck.
I too, want to dump my phone company and use the cell phone instead.
The problems for ME (may not be applicable to anyone else) is my home
alarm monitoring can't use cell phones, 911 call technology
(supposedly working this out tho) and currently my savings will be
small because I have to increase my cell phone minutes.
All in all, I still hope to switch to cell phones with no landlines
someday.
If it weren't for my monitoring on my home alarm system, I would.
That monitoring can't use VOIP nor cell phone technology to do it's
job so either I have a landline with home monitoring or no landline
and no home monitoring.
The only other drawbacks I can see to eliminating a landline is the
911 emergency call technology (tho I think they are working on this
but I don't know the status right now) and perhaps the savings of
going to the cell phone might not be a big difference (this is
depending on what you pay for landline and assuming you have to
increase the minutes on your cell phone).
Posted by rob on April 19, 2006, 7:28 am
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:26:45 -0500, rob wrote:
>On 18 Apr 2006 18:27:18 -0700, lenagainster@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>C. Massey wrote:
>>> I will be checking into getting cable internet instead of DSL, shutting off
>>> the landline phones and upping our minutes on our cell phones... Wonder if
>>> it's worth doing that?
>>
>>The big problem with shutting off your landline and strictly using the
>>cellphone is that you have to keep that thing with you all the time.
>>What about VOIP if you have cable or FiOS? VOIP is cheaper than a
>>landline with features out the gazoo.
>>
>>Lena
>From what I have heard (no personal experience) is that VOIP is not
>always clear and like the internet is subject to go down periodically.
>I think that's where the landline has the only advantages. I agree
>tho, VOIP is a better bang for the buck.
>I too, want to dump my phone company and use the cell phone instead.
>The problems for ME (may not be applicable to anyone else) is my home
>alarm monitoring can't use cell phones, 911 call technology
>(supposedly working this out tho) and currently my savings will be
>small because I have to increase my cell phone minutes.
>All in all, I still hope to switch to cell phones with no landlines
>someday.
>If it weren't for my monitoring on my home alarm system, I would.
>That monitoring can't use VOIP nor cell phone technology to do it's
>job so either I have a landline with home monitoring or no landline
>and no home monitoring.
>The only other drawbacks I can see to eliminating a landline is the
>911 emergency call technology (tho I think they are working on this
>but I don't know the status right now) and perhaps the savings of
>going to the cell phone might not be a big difference (this is
>depending on what you pay for landline and assuming you have to
>increase the minutes on your cell phone).
Sorry, ignor last to paragraphs, bad editiing.
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> I have fine tuned my Landline phone services.. SBC in dallas.Tx.
> see my bill.details,
> this is the bare minimum I can get it... maybe I;ll take Call waiting
> off too. but it is handy.
> .
> there is one INLINE protection which I unknowlingly had subscribed to
> for years.. they claim that they will fix the jacks in my house.. now I
> am on my own... phew!
> also, if i want my number to be unlisted..un published.. its like 5$
> extra.. .. phew..
> Please note. thru SBC, I have no LD carrier listed.. once I had taken
> their LD.. andit was supposed to be free.. and 25C/min. US.. etc. i was
> fine with that.. then all of a sudden they UNILATERALLY put a 3$ charge
> for that service... and when I called , they said that it I was
> notified in the fine print in my previous bill..
> .. I cancelled. immediately.
> so who knows.. what extra charge they can concoct up on me .... I just
> keep looking..
> how does this compare to other folks..
>