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houseofcards03
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| am I getting charged too much for long distance? |
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Hi,
I have a question on long distance service plans. I recently moved from a city where my wife and I both had a mobile plan with free minutes within the area code, which worked since both most of our friends and family members lived in the same area. But within the past two months, we were able to put the down payment on a modest home of our own in a much smaller town in the neighboring state. And we love our new house but neither of us really wants to add to the local company’s clout, since we feel their out of town rates are far too high. It is my wishful thinking or is it really a ripoff to pay $.05 cents each minute for calls to St. Paul (and we’re in Wisconsin, it isn’t like we’re making daily calls to China), which is then taxed alongside an extra charge for the connection? It just doesn’t sound reasonable.
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Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:25 am |
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drshields
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HouseofCards: Do you still have your mobile plan w/free minutes in the area code? Most cell phone companies have nationwide plans now. In fact, I cant think of one that doesn't. You may want to give up the fight with a LD carrier and just your mobile for everything.
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Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:47 am |
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MattL
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We had the phone company disable our long distance so we don't unknowingly make any LLD calls. We have free long distance nationwide on our cell phones.
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Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:30 pm |
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Jaszbo
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have you looked into VOIP phones like vonage?
You can get a plan for 500 minutes that you can call anywhere in the nation, including puerto rico and canada for I believe 15.99 or for 24.99 you can have unlimited calls to the nation. It has all the features you want like caller ID, call waiting, three way calling, digital voice message. While you are at work, you can receive an email telling you that you have a voice message that you can check online.
If you travel, you just take it with you and in Europe you could plug it there online and somebody can call you with the same phone number you always use. You can even get a phone number from another state and add another phone number for 4 bucks. So if you live in New York and have family say in California and if you have vonage it would be free for you to call them, but if you wanted them to call you free, you could just get a local number there for 4 dollars. Both phone numbers would ring your phone line.
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Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:39 pm |
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jakes1217
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Five cents per minute doesn’t sound like a terrible rate to me but I guess it adds up, not to mention the taxes. I like onesuite for long-distance calls since it’s what the fam has used for years. But your calling habits might differ a lot from mine (mostly local calls, occassional long distance). You should check out a lot of different places to have a good idea of your options.
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Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:09 am |
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teezmama
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quote:
houseofcards03 wrote:
Hi,
I have a question on long distance service plans. I recently moved from a city where my wife and I both had a mobile plan with free minutes within the area code, which worked since both most of our friends and family members lived in the same area. But within the past two months, we were able to put the down payment on a modest home of our own in a much smaller town in the neighboring state. And we love our new house but neither of us really wants to add to the local company’s clout, since we feel their out of town rates are far too high. It is my wishful thinking or is it really a ripoff to pay $.05 cents each minute for calls to St. Paul (and we’re in Wisconsin, it isn’t like we’re making daily calls to China), which is then taxed alongside an extra charge for the connection? It just doesn’t sound reasonable.
I just joined a company that offers cheap wireless service as well as cheap long distance. Check out https://LHolden.neccglobal.com. You can get a free phone, with no credit check and no ssn. No huge deposit is required, a major difference from the network guys. If you do have these items, your rate is even cheaper.
The awesome feature about NECC is that it allows you to place direct international calls from your cellphone without a calling card. As you may know, with a calling card, you have the activation fee, beginning connection, talk time and ending connection. With a $50 card, you only get $30 some minutes of actual talk time. All you do is hold down "5" for about 3 seconds and you are connected internationally. You can call to Mexico, Russia or China for just pennies a minutes.
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Fri Jan 20, 2006 6:08 am |
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No-Brainer
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I have looked at so many ways to get long distance including cell phone free (which is not really free if you count minutes), VoIP at $29 a month unlimited (which is really limited by the number of minutes I actually have time to use) and too many companies that offer great deals that are really not so great.
I live in Oregon where in-state long distance is 11 cents a minute with mnost carriers
The last couple of years I have been using a pre-paid system.
I charge my account with $10 at 2 cents a minute good in or out of state.
I set up my account so I don't need to dial an access code from my home phone.
I set my phones autodial to the access number.
I set speed dial on my phone for commonly called numbers
Since I don't use long distance much, my total bill is under $10 a month, in fact I often go 2 or 3 months on the same $10.
Even if I make an opportunity conference call for an hour that's only $1.20 (try one of those on a cell phone). I keep my cell phone minutes for times when I am not home and I never run over with their outrageous overage charges.
Since it's so cheap, they have no affiliate program other than they give each party in a referral (me and you) each 20 minutes free long distance.
https://www.onesuite.com/036N33650/suitetreat
If anyone has a better option, I sure would like to know about it. Actually after all this time with OneSuite I have finally stopped looking.
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Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:49 am |
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Rolo
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"Long Distance"? You mean companies still charge for that?
My cell phones do not have LD.
My VoIP phone (Vonage) does not have LD plus the benefit of having a foreign number (a number local to someone far away who calls you).
Traditional Ma Bell isn't as reliable as you may think: when I was in Hurricane Ivan (MY town was on CNN! heh), my POTS home phone stopped working yet my cell phone still worked, in spite of most of the town being without power.
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Fri Jan 20, 2006 12:46 pm |
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manu06
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Try SKYPE. Free VOIP when talking to other Skype users and 2 cents per
minute to land lines any where in the world. This is for video phone service.
A cheap computer camera and a cheap microphone and your set.
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