I dumped my cell service at $50-60/month, and did things just like I did before being brainwashed by the phone company.\n\nWhen people need to reach me, they call or leave a message at home. And I get to keep the extra $$ at the end of the month...
137355
Lately, a popular mechanism to save money is to dump the home phone service and use cell service.
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1. no, my parents did away with their rotary phone about 6 or 7 years ago. My husband and myself definately don't have one.\n\n2. It depends on the telemarketer. The one who eluded to the fact that i'm a computer idiot was how they got my phone number, i wasn't nice to. if you're nice to me i give it back. i've answered the phone before and heard laughing and talking or dead silence and after two hellos i get a response, those i'm not nice to.\n\n3. yeah, i've posted a telephone pole for a yard sale before. the staple gun crapped out on me, too so it was real fun trying to get it to stay.
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I got rid of telewest because the Internet regularly went down for days with no apology or rebate EVER and then they began charging me for phantom calls to Japan at £6.00 a go. When I eventually got someone at customer services to listen they said the computers could never be wrong - despite the fact the house was empty at the time of the calls and I dont know anyone in Japan it seems I MUST have made those calls.  Told them to stuff their shoddy expensive service xx
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Ever here of broadband?  RUN an OC48 connection to your local telephone company. And be prepared to pay them about $10000 a month.\n\nTata
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I have Virgin Mobile and no house phone so I talk very little.  About ten minutes every few days to my adult son who is also my best friend.  Everyone else I email except for work.  I'm an on-call employee so I call in once a day, five days a week to see if I'm going out on a job.  That takes about 2 minutes.
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Hello black orchid.. :)\n\nI do live a very humble lifestyle..\n\nI receive only $705.00 a month, my rent is $675.00 a month, I pay the electric and phone, yet the Lord still provides to me enough  give to others in need.. :)\n\nWhen you figure out the above math..I should not even have enough to pay my bills..but miracles happen and every month and my bills are met.. :)\n\nGreat Question..10 thumbs up.. :)\n\nIn Jesus Most Precious Name..\nWith Love..In Christ.. :)
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I worked as a call centre agent for many companies from selling webpages to inbound Fed Ex calls to Land Rover info line to banking and surveys.  I have done inbound (when people call you) and outbound (when you interrupt people's dinner)\n\nExperiences...it depending on where I was.  There was one company that treated us like crap and had no morals.  They did not follow the do no call laws and didnt do anything to people who harassed elderly people and sold to dead ones.  Other ones I worked at were very good, good environment, good pay and lots of support to help you do a good job.  \n\nCall centre work is very stressful.  Either you have sales targets to meet where any number you call is luck of the draw, or you have to do as much customer service as you can while keeping your talk time down.  Working inbound call centres there will always be certain times that the call you are on will have just disconnected when another calls in.  You will go home hearing the "ding" in your ear when a call comes in.\n\nYou have to learn to leave your job at the door when you go home or it will drive you insane.  People think that because you are on a phone, it gives them latitude to scream at you and say things they never would in person.  You didnt know it was their dinner time; it was 8:00 or later...but you get yelled at.  You didnt create the storm that grounded 35 Fed Ex flights in Memphis....but you are responsible.  Its not easy and anyone who says it is easy is lying to you because they have lost their morals at work.\n\nYou can try it, and see how it is.  Some people are okay with it for awhile, but rarely is it a "career" unless you are in management or IT.
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well, the downside to that is that you can't.  the only way is to subscribe to your cingular provider for some $10-$20 a month... or somewhere around there\n\nor...\n\nyou could apply for a job there... they get free minutes, ringtones, pretty much free everything!!!
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I'd undercut them...not too much or potential customers may think you offer a cheap service - moneywise AND skillwise.  I'd recommend you also get a freephone, they give the impression that you're more established than you may be, and obviously increase the number of enquires you'll get.  They don't cost much, either.  If you want more details, just email me or call me on 0800 298 2384.\nGood luck.
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They said I was in the covered area for service.The service I received was it would drop calls or not even connect or I had to walk around my house to get one to two bars to call out or to hear my phone ringing I had to place the phone in a window so the phone could be a little closer to one of those cell phone towers.I had to make calls at home on the ground phone and the cell phone would only really work when I went to the city.So my brother talked to a service person and found out that they made a mistake when telling me I was in a service area.So he got mad and called around and finally received the Vice President number and said if they don't give credit to my account or cancel my service without the disconnection fee that we were gone to sue for the lack of service abilities and about stating that I was in a area to receive their services.They waivered the last bill and I'm still with them because,they also did a up grade on phones from a regular old Kyocera2135 to a Audiovox CDM 8900 for free that works now in my area.But,you know hows it goes once deceived...You have to stay on them if you have a problem because,they will just blow you off.Good luck.
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How many months you want to pay up front?  I got a deal from them through my work, and they pay for 29.99 a month.  It was based on a one year plan, so that puts it at 359.88, but that was last year.
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They did the same thing to me too.  I moved out of their network and their mover's connect people said that since I moved against my will (military move) I could get outta my contract.  Well it took a month and a half before they shut down my phone and they billed me for it (which was fine I used it),  I paid my last bill in sept., then in March of the next year a collection agency called me up saying that I owed them over a thousand dollars.  Well long story short after 6 months of calls, faxes and letters to their cust. care center they finally said to hell with it and refunded me the money (I paid it so I wouldn't be bothered by the collection agency anymore... which I wouldn't recomend untill they admit guilt).  Just remember this dude. "the Sqeaky wheel gets the grease."  \nP.S. Everytime you call them it cost Verizon $8.50 so just keep calling them, eventually they'll give in!!!!\n\n\nP.S.S. Amy your completely full of sh** the only headway I got from verizon is when I started yelling, screaming, kicking, and bit**ing.  So unless you've been through it shut the he** up!  I also went into there store and they were complete morons in there, twice they acctually tried to resign me.... sh** after all the bs they put me through anytime anyone tells me there thinking of verizon I tell them my story!!!!!!!
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i dont get dropped calls either. and im with cingular. iv'e never heard of this new sim card thing. if you dont have the money, dont do it. maybe you should talk with the manager too.
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I personally don't like Vonage as they charge too much. I kicked out SBC over a year ago and am now using BroadVoice as my only phone! I pay $9.99 a month for Unlimited In-State calling. The rest of the US is something like 4 cents a minute. What I really got it for was for International. I call Japan for 3 cents a minute... Can't beat that. There is a onetime setup fee of $39.95.
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I do, my boyfriend had HAAADDDD cingular and let me tell you, he paid more for those bills then I did for my HOUSE! That company sucks big time!! I swear they cheat you out of your minutes!!!
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I had the same thing happen in August.  We went camping, had no cell service and had to use a pay phone to call home and check-in with the house sitter.  We made 1 collect call and had my brother in law call us right back.  That phone call cost me $23.  When I got the bill in Sept. I almost fell over, I couldn't believe it.\n\nI just paid it and chalked it up to a lesson learned.\n\nAnd the lesson learned is always carry change, or a credit card you can charge the call to.  Sounds stupid to charge a phone call, but I doubt it would have been $23 that way.\n\nHope this helps, and it doesn't sound stupid, it happened to my dad also.
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I pay around $150 after taxes and everything on my 2 phones, family plan, 2000 anytime minutes, unlimited nights and weekends starting at 7pm, unlimited text, unlimited internet, roadside assistance, insurance on the phones and whatever content I purchase, I am with Sprint and I live in Oklahoma but the price is the same pretty much everywhere.\n\nYou could get a decent family plan with unlimited text and 7pm nights and weekend for 59.99 plus another 22.50 for unlimited text and this includes roaming for both phones.