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FIREdreamer · 06-18-2009, 07:58 PM

I still have a land line but just basic services (911/local/800 numbers), no frills (no caller ID, call forwarding, etc...). I still hang on to it for emergencies. I mostly use my cell phone nowadays. I have friends and family in Europe and talk to them several hours a week. For that I use a $10 a month subscription with skype: it gives me unlimited calls to virtually any landline in the world and the US (a bit more for calling international cell phones). I used to spend $120 a month on long distance / international calls, now I spend that much in a year. I really like Skype a lot and would recommend it. But note that Skype does not allow emergency calls, so it can't completely replace a landline or cell phone.

06-18-2009, 07:58 PM	#4
FIREdreamer Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 2,492	I still have a land line but just basic services (911/local/800 numbers), no frills (no caller ID, call forwarding, etc...). I still hang on to it for emergencies. I mostly use my cell phone nowadays. I have friends and family in Europe and talk to them several hours a week. For that I use a $10 a month subscription with skype: it gives me unlimited calls to virtually any landline in the world and the US (a bit more for calling international cell phones). I used to spend $120 a month on long distance / international calls, now I spend that much in a year. I really like Skype a lot and would recommend it. But note that Skype does not allow emergency calls, so it can't completely replace a landline or cell phone.