F...Hidden Costs, Fees and Magic Numbers

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

I'd love to dump my land line but the wife wants to keep it.

Just do what I did...

I dropped all calling packages including long distance...so it's basically just a local line with a dialtone. When I have to call long distance (which I don't do a lot), just use one of those 10-10-### numbers that was popular a few years ago, they're like $0.20-0.30 to connect and for the first 20 minutes...but they're like 2 cents every minute afterwards. They're pretty cost-efficient if you stay on the line for a while, which usually happens since I call my family so infrequently...gotta catch up.

I have Verizon and with DSL INCLUDED...my phone bills are about $45-50 a month.

I only keep the line because I need it for my Dish Network receiver. I'd go Vonage if I didn't have to keep a land line for my TV.