Your next phone a Netgear?

Steve Sobol wrote:
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>> No, but cellular is NEVER free....(c;
>
> And wifi is often cheaper than cellular. Not always, but often!


Depends on your usage. If I'm going to use it one day out of the month,
then maybe. If I'm going to use it 4 days out of the month, then EVDO
is on par. Any more than that and EVDO wins out on cost.


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DevilsPGD wrote:

>>>> No, but cellular is NEVER free....(c;
>>> And wifi is often cheaper than cellular. Not always, but often!
>> You mean all those posts about calling 911 from a bag phone for free were
>> LIES!?!?!?!??! Oh no!!!!!!!
>>
>
> Hence the "Often" and "Not always" qualifiers.

For any real amount of use, "often" isn't even a valid qualifier.

> Show of hands, how many here call 911 on a regular basis? How many call
> other numbers?


Show of hands: Who's gonna smile when this guy DOES need to call 911,
and realizes that this one potentially-lifesaving time he needs it, he
can't?

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Isaiah Beard wrote:
> DevilsPGD wrote:
>
>>>>> No, but cellular is NEVER free....(c;
>>>> And wifi is often cheaper than cellular. Not always, but often!
>>> You mean all those posts about calling 911 from a bag phone for
>>> free were LIES!?!?!?!??! Oh no!!!!!!!
>>>
>>
>> Hence the "Often" and "Not always" qualifiers.
>
> For any real amount of use, "often" isn't even a valid qualifier.
>
>> Show of hands, how many here call 911 on a regular basis? How many
>> call other numbers?
>
>
> Show of hands: Who's gonna smile when this guy DOES need to call 911,
> and realizes that this one potentially-lifesaving time he needs it, he
> can't?

Read what was repliued to..."No, but cellular is NEVER free."

While there was a qualifier on the reply "wifi is often cheaper than
cellular", there wasn't one on the original post, so the NEVER still applies
to the response "calling 911 from a bag phone " (a bag phone is absolutely
ONLY cellular, I've never heard of a wifi bagphone)....

Isaiah Beard <[email protected]> wrote in news:12ciga49t3cspc7
@corp.supernews.com:

> Show of hands: Who's gonna smile when this guy DOES need to call 911,
> and realizes that this one potentially-lifesaving time he needs it, he
> can't?
>
>

Just in the interest of "disclosure", what is your interest in the
debunking of using VoIP services, like Skype? Do you feel it's going to
cheat you out of cellular service, somehow? Do you work for cellular in
some way?

I'm trying to get a grasp on why you feel you need to attack anyone
pointing out something alternative to eating up their monthly minutes
chitchatting with their girlfriend. Is it going to "cost" you something
of value? Explain to us the "why" of both these posts. Skype isn't for
911 and it plainly states such on their webpages in many places. Of
course, I could call the cops by simply dialing their number, programmed
into the phone's phone book list. That would work but I'd have to tell
them where I am because even the cops don't get caller ID on
SkypeOut....neither do the toll frees and spammers, a real feature!

As my Skype In number is in a block of numbers used for modem
interconnect, here locally, I've gotten not one single spammer calling
me, at all! The whole block must be locked out of the spammers'
autodialers...(c; Wish I could say the same for the Verizon and Alltel
number blocks they do call on my cellphone.

So, tell us, please, in a "nice, unthreatening way" what YOUR personal
interest is in trashing such cheap VoIP services as Skype, open to all.
Why the hits?

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The customers, here in these newsgroups, are interested in way to reduce
their cellular phone bills. I'm one of them, and always have been. None
of us customers throw money through Alltel's front door begging them to
take it just because we all appreciate them allowing us to use their
towers for $3 to $12 an hour, plus taxes and mysterious addon charges for
"administration". I've found a great way to reduce my bill, Skype, and
I'd bet you I'm not a minority of one on here. Skype is over 110,000,000
registered users on the planet, now....headed towards their goal of 200K
by 1997. Here they are giving away service and steadily increasing
revenues, something I've yet to figure out, myself. I AM thankful to
Ebay for buying Skype, infusing it with more cash to increase
infrastructure to even more places.

This weekend, Skype opens up Japan's landlines for free for two whole
days...FREE is good. Let's check what it costs to call Japan on other
services this weekend......just for comparison to their regular 2.3c/min
rate.

Alltel charges $US65c/min
Verizon Wirless charges $US1.49/min
Cingular gets $US3.49 to phones, $US3.62 to mobiles!
T-Mobile charges $US34c/min.
After cruising Sprint/Nextel for 25 webpages, I couldn't find their
international rate chart to Japan. Maybe it doesn't exist or they don't
want you to ask.

Quite a range, isn't it, just to call Japan over the data lines, same as
Skype but not encrypted like Skype is. $3.49 a minute!....reminds me of
my IMTS rates!

Skype to Japan....from your Skype to their Skype - FREE 24/7/365
from your Skype to their landline - $US 2.3c/min
from your Skype to their cellular - $US 15.4c/min

$0.023/min or $3.49/min? It's not about 911 calls.....
I think the answer is fairly obvious unless you just HAVE to call from
your car speeding down the interstate, praying for a stable, usable
signal.

Bell$outh, our landline company, wants $US2.48/min from 2PM to 3AM to
Japan, another ripoff from Ma Bell.

You'd think the goddamned phone companies had to pull wires or coax under
the Pacific to Japan, like the old days.

Larry <[email protected]> wrote:

>So, tell us, please, in a "nice, unthreatening way" what YOUR personal
>interest is in trashing such cheap VoIP services as Skype, open to all.
>Why the hits?

good come back