OT: Telephone land line and DSL alternatives?

[Eric Cope]

What fax service does he use? I've searched for a fax service like that, but
have never found one.
Thanks,
Eric

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:10 AM, AZ Pete <subs2 at cactusfamily.com> wrote:

> I have Cox for Internet, Phone and Cable.
>
> Several months ago I was getting irritated with the high cost of the land
> line phone portion of my bill. What I did was to get a Google voice number,
> which provided me with free long distance and voice mail (as well a many
> other excellent features - all for free). I then dropped all the "bells &
> whistles" and long distance service from my land line and simply have a
> basic line w/Caller ID. The cost for this land line is $11.75 line fee +
> $5.95 for caller ID. The rest is various taxes. Total land line = $28
> /month.
>
> If someone calls my land line directly (instead of my Google #), I have an
> answering machine to handle that.
> If you really want to get lean, drop your land line altogether and have
> your Google voice number simply route to your calls to your cell phone.
>
> As far as fax service, there is absolutely no need to have a dedicated fax
> line and machine these days. There are so many online services available for
> so cheap that it doesn't pay to "host" it yourself.  My brother receives
> hundreds of faxes each month and he pays $2-3 per month flat rate.  To send
> a fax, he simply sends an email to the hosting service and they fax it
> appropriately (although the need for sending faxes is getting exceedingly
> rare).
>
> Hope this helps.
> Peter
>
>
>
> joe at actionline.com wrote:
>
>> Are there any alternatives to Qwest for land-line telephone and DSL
>> service?
>>
>> Qwest has just raised their rates and I think some of the charges are
>> unreasonable, particularly for voice mail and the portion of the DSL
>> service that goes to M$ (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?
>>
>>
>>
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