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mary
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response 25 of 30:
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Oct 11 00:25 UTC 2000 |
I have a pay-as-you-go cell phone and it works great for my needs, which
are modest. I can't roam and I don't make long distance calls on it. It
only costs me about $5 a month and for that it's simply a bit of
convenience when out and about and it allowed me to turn in my beeper,
which I really disliked.
But my son only makes long distance calls and he'd like to
be able to make as many as he can for about $30 a month, which
is all he wants to budget for monthly phone service. Alas, he's a
poor grad student. If he got a land-based phone through Atlantic
Bell he'd be paying about $20 a month for the hard line and only
have about $10 left to put toward long distance cards or carrier
charges. Somehow it just seems to be a better use of the money to
put all $30 into long distance and not pay for local hookup and
service.
Now, he could get a phone card and make all of his long distance
calls from his office phone. That might be the way to go. He
actually doesn't feel like being part of the whole cell-phone
culture. He's a minimalist and likes to keep it simple, spending
what he has on food and Philosophy books. He was adopted. ;-)
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goose
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response 26 of 30:
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Oct 19 00:35 UTC 2000 |
I'll respectfully disagree with Katie's comments about Verizon, I've had them
for close to a year and have had no problems from NYC to San Francisco.
I have no roaming/no long distance. I did get a couple drop outs of serivce
while crossing the desert in the southwest. I expected as much.
For home LD I've been using a "card" from www.bigzoo.com (no physical card)
which is 3.9cents a minute for domestic calls.
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mwg
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response 27 of 30:
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Oct 19 17:46 UTC 2000 |
For home LD I use PT-1 Communications, 7.9 cents/minute to the US, Canada
and the UK, the three countries I call the most. I rarely make LD calls
at all while in the area, so the lack of a monthly charge was rather more
important than a low per minute rate. I can deal with paying less than
$5/hour to the UK on those occasions when I need it.
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mary
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response 28 of 30:
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Nov 5 14:24 UTC 2000 |
Well, this is how the cell phone question worked out. I bought a digital
cell phone and the $29.99 / 500 minutes (all long distance) package from
Sprint. We plan to use this as our primary long distance service. I've
cancelled AT&T as our land-based long distance carrier and instead
selected Sprint at 7 cents per minute, which is half the price of AT&T. We
no longer having a calling card so my son is moving to bigzoo.com at 3.9
cents/min.
Thanks for the very helpful pointer to bigzoo.
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jerryr
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response 29 of 30:
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Nov 5 17:05 UTC 2000 |
spintpcs gave me a present of sorts. as long as i maintain my sprintpcs
account my landline sprint 7 cents a minute plan monthy service charge is
waved.
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goose
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response 30 of 30:
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Nov 5 19:06 UTC 2000 |
No problem Mary. Bigzoo has been a big money saver for me.
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