Re: super cordless phone

On Jan 10, 6:17 pm, Ecnerwal <LawrenceSM...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
In article <MPG.21efe406f1067be2989...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

krw <k...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You think phone service should be free? Land lines can cost the
same (hardware not included), so in a sense "mobile" is free.

If you pay as much for a landline as cell service costs, you're either
in a more equitably regulated country than the USA where cell cost is
reasonable, or you're loaded up on crap you don't need with the
land-line. The sleazebags keep trying to get me into another 2 year
commitment with "more minutes", when what I'd like out of them is half
the minutes at half the price - but they don't do that. And the pay as
you go phones are not - they expire unused minutes at a rate that makes
it cost as much as (or more than) a normal cell contract. It's a racket,
alright.


Verizon, Cingular/ATT and Virgin Mobile have these prepaid plans with
rollover minutes. I only use prepaid cell plans... if you refill the
minutes regularly, you get to "roll over" your unused minutes.
Verizon has an auto refill bot that zaps your VISA card; the others
you have to call in manually and not forget.

I got my Verizon years ago when it was 10c/min (25c connection fee, so
say 35c for the first minute), with $15 monthly renewal. They still
honor that rate. I'm up to 12 hours of unused talk time so far. But
now, Verizon has since raised their rates and no longer offer the 10c/
min rate to new customers. AT&T and Virgin have 25c/min rates... my
wife used both of those

Michael
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