Re: What about having no LD carrier on landline?

Evan Platt <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com> wrote in
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> No. As a matter of fact, the basta... SBC charges you to not have a LD
> carrier.
>
> And to NOT list your number.
>

Armed with this wonderful information, I'd like to ask the original poster
if he/she actually NEEDS a land line. I haven't had one in my house for 3
years...good riddance. No sales calls during dinner, or any other time.
No Long Distance scams by the landline carrier or AT&T. No tax games by
the state/local tax bureaucrats who just can't leave a telephone untaxed to
death.

Why in hell put yourself through all this. All you need is a good
cellphone with Unlimited nights/weekends and nationwide long distance
included. Folks on here from your area can tell you who's the best for
your area.

Tell SBC to kiss your ass and DUMP 'EM!
You can't imagine how good that feels after being their victim since you
were born..(c;

YOU CAN EVEN TAKE YOUR LANDLINE NUMBER TO YOUR NEW CELLULAR PHONE!!...(C;

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Larry

"Joseph" <JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:48:02 -0400, Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:
>
>>Armed with this wonderful information, I'd like to ask the original poster
>>if he/she actually NEEDS a land line. I haven't had one in my house for 3
>>years...good riddance. No sales calls during dinner, or any other time.
>>No Long Distance scams by the landline carrier or AT&T. No tax games by
>>the state/local tax bureaucrats who just can't leave a telephone untaxed
>>to
>>death.
>
> Going cellphone only is fine if everyone in your house has a
> cellphone. If not it's pretty hard to use the phone if you're out of
> the house and someone else needs to make a call. For singles it's
> ideal. I've not had a wireline phone for over three years. It also
> makes a difference what kind of reception you get in your place as
> well. I'd say it would be pretty inconvenient if every time you had
> to make a call you had to go outside to be able to do it.
>>
>>Why in hell put yourself through all this. All you need is a good
>>cellphone with Unlimited nights/weekends and nationwide long distance
>>included. Folks on here from your area can tell you who's the best for
>>your area.
>

I dropped my landline when I moved recently, so I'm cellular only. I don't
regret it for a second. My son and others of his generation (early 20s) all
have cell phones only, because SBC, etc., wants such huge deposits from them
to get a landline. Here in Houston 911 isn't a problem on cell, and my
reception is terrific. At work it's less than that, but I have a work phone
for anything I need there. My landline was just an extra chunk of money I
paid for nothing I didn't already have with cellular, and I had to pay extra
for caller ID, call waiting, etc., and had to have an answering machine -
all things included in my monthly cell plan. I now have no wrong numbers,
sales calls, charity calls, and all that other fun stuff that comes with a
landline (yes, I did sign up for the national "do not call" list, but I
still got junk calls, although not as many). My internet is via cable, and
long distance is the reason I got the cell in the first place, so I don't
miss my land phone one teensy bit.

Joseph <JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:12h4e19qoium3ltg33msfmgjocbgf8f86u@4ax.com:

> Going cellphone only is fine if everyone in your house has a
> cellphone.

With all the share plans going on with lots of competition, the extra $10
per line is a bargain. Everyone can have their own number. With all the
IN plans, where you call for nothing inside the carrier's cellphone system,
cellphone to cellphone without using minutes during primetime, this makes
it even better.

--
Larry

George <gh424NO824SPAM@cox.net> wrote in
news:0LrEe.46489$rb6.4638@lakeread07:

> And then there are the 911 questions.

All the new cellphones put on systems are E911 qualified. They pinpoint
your position with a GPS receiver built right into the phone. Whatever
position the GPS heard as you entered the building is what's reported.

>
> I don't know. Perhaps I should at it again. But you know,
> where I live I'd probably end up with Cingular, which is
> still SBC. You just can't get away from them. :-)
>

My contention isn't about a company, it's about the physics of it all. I
can no longer "wait around for your call" on some tied-down landline phone.

Larry wrote:

> All the new cellphones put on systems are E911 qualified. They pinpoint
> your position with a GPS receiver built right into the phone. Whatever
> position the GPS heard as you entered the building is what's reported.

I understand, actually, that a couple of the carriers are doing GPS and a
couple others are doing some sort of enhanced triangulation.


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Look at Americom.. They have a 3.9 cents a minute long distance
service with no monthly minimums or service fees. You can set this up
as your long distance carrier with the telco. We have a VOIP line at
home with unlimited 21 country long distance. We keep a regular line
as a backup and have this as our long distance provider.

Stu