OT: Telephone land line and DSL alternatives?

[Eric Cope]

VOIP?

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:

> joe at actionline.com wrote:
>
>> Are there any alternatives to Qwest for land-line telephone and DSL
>> service?
>>
>> Qwest has just raised their rates and I think some of the charges are
>> unreasonable, particularly for voice mail and the portion of the DSL
>> service that goes to M$ (which is the most irritating since I don't use M$
>> for anything).
>>
>> For the land-line phone service, I pay $37.99/month which includes a
>> second land-line and voice-mail for one line. But then they charge $6.20
>> for each of the two lines for "Federal Access Charge" (probably can't do
>> anything about that).  But for voice mail on the second line, they charge
>> an additional $7.95/month plus $3.95 for an extension mailbox. That part
>> seems excessive to me. Surely there must be some other good alternatives.
>>
>> The broadband charges  show as $38.00 for Qwest Connect Platinum
>> plus $16.99 for Qwest Connect PLTNM w MSFT, less "bundle savings"
>> of $5.00/month and a promotional discount of $15.00/month.
>> So $54.99 - $20.00 = $34.99/month.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>
> I don't know of an alternative to Qwest for DSL.
>
> If you have a cell phone, consider dropping the land line phone service
> entirely. I have Qwest DSL, with no phone service.
>
> If you think you need a phone line for fax, reconsider your faxing needs.
> Try life without fax. When you need to send a fax, there are services that
> will likely cost less than your phone line.
>
> If you must have a land line phone, consider using your own answering
> machine.
>
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
>
>
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