Landline Phones
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Hard to understand. Some people seem uncomfortable with not having 100% agreement. Almost seems like lack of confidence.
Mr._Graybeard
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Our township was doing some minor road work and knocked out the land line. AT&T took more than two weeks to fix it. That convinced us that The Big T didn't place a high priority on its legacy customers anymore, so we added our home phone service to our Consumer Cellular package.
rk911
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youbet wrote: “Wow! You were really getting ripped!“ referring to our $100 p/m AT&T LL service.
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AT&T DID offer a no-frills copper line. MIL was in an assisted living center with a bare bones copper line...~$30 p/m with taxes and the Al Gore fees bur she could make local calls only within the same central office. long distance calls to her sons were $$. but since she literally made only 2 or 3 calls per year it worked fine for her. us? not so much.
BIL #1ives in Kalifornia, #2 lived in Springfield, my mom in Florida, sister in Chicago. our friends scattered throughout the burbs. i think they called that All Calling or something like it. then there’s call forwarding for when we travel, caller ID, call waiting while i was working, yadda yadda...the features that made modern life easier. with taxes and Al Gore fees we were just over $100 p/m.
a few years ago AT&T made it clear that they were wanting to dump their copper lines. Their U-Verse fiber optic service never quite made it to our neighborhood despite assurances that it was coming. a buddy in another part of town had the U-Verse service and did save some $ but not a huge amount.
we used to have minimal long distance service and used those pre-paid calling cards or those 10-10-xxx long distance services...remember them? that’s when AT&T fought back and introduced their All Calls service. a call to Honolulu was the same as calls to the guy next door. use it ir don’t...same flat fee.
VoIPs were introduced but i resisted them because of their, initial, inability to properly route 9-1-1 calls. i recall speaking with a VoIP rep at work one day who wanted to route ALL of his company’s 9-1-1 calls to our center. i declined the offer and explained how 9-1-1 selective routing needed to work.
VoIPs have come a long way since then so when we dumped our DSL line and switched to Comcast and found we could add their voice service for $7 p/m and correct 9-1-1 routing it was a no brainer. that was verified a couple of years ago when wife had a medical emergency and my call to 9-1-1 was properly routed. so between dumping AT&T, Earthlink DSL and bundling with Comcast we saved ~$1800 p/y.
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AT&T DID offer a no-frills copper line. MIL was in an assisted living center with a bare bones copper line...~$30 p/m with taxes and the Al Gore fees bur she could make local calls only within the same central office. long distance calls to her sons were $$. but since she literally made only 2 or 3 calls per year it worked fine for her. us? not so much.
BIL #1ives in Kalifornia, #2 lived in Springfield, my mom in Florida, sister in Chicago. our friends scattered throughout the burbs. i think they called that All Calling or something like it. then there’s call forwarding for when we travel, caller ID, call waiting while i was working, yadda yadda...the features that made modern life easier. with taxes and Al Gore fees we were just over $100 p/m.
a few years ago AT&T made it clear that they were wanting to dump their copper lines. Their U-Verse fiber optic service never quite made it to our neighborhood despite assurances that it was coming. a buddy in another part of town had the U-Verse service and did save some $ but not a huge amount.
we used to have minimal long distance service and used those pre-paid calling cards or those 10-10-xxx long distance services...remember them? that’s when AT&T fought back and introduced their All Calls service. a call to Honolulu was the same as calls to the guy next door. use it ir don’t...same flat fee.
VoIPs were introduced but i resisted them because of their, initial, inability to properly route 9-1-1 calls. i recall speaking with a VoIP rep at work one day who wanted to route ALL of his company’s 9-1-1 calls to our center. i declined the offer and explained how 9-1-1 selective routing needed to work.
VoIPs have come a long way since then so when we dumped our DSL line and switched to Comcast and found we could add their voice service for $7 p/m and correct 9-1-1 routing it was a no brainer. that was verified a couple of years ago when wife had a medical emergency and my call to 9-1-1 was properly routed. so between dumping AT&T, Earthlink DSL and bundling with Comcast we saved ~$1800 p/y.
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