Ditching the landline
I am thinking about ditching the landline. I might keep it for the house alarm, but cellular is an option for a small monthly. In true TCB fashion I am trying to see which is cheaper. It also might be nice in a longer power outage.
Is it true that ATT has a super basic / pay by the call phone line for $10-$20 per month? I can't find anything on it. I wanted to be informed before I called. Right now I am inclined to just shut it off.
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I love it, paid ~$100 for the phone, I'll be saving $ in another month or 2. Went from ~$40/month to $5/month with unlimited call to anywhere in North America. Comes in handy for those customer service calls that eat up your cell phone minutes & those long phone calls to relatives & friends out of state.
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ATT does offer a cheap monthly land line.......I got my home bill lowered about $25. If I remember correctly there are unlimited incoming calls but outgoing calls are limited to a certain number, I don't remember how many but if I go over my limit it is a flat .08 cents a call (for local calls). I didn't want to give it up completely and the flat rate is $5.55 a month plus taxes. They call it a "measured rate residence line".
I have something similar so that I can have DSL.
I have not had a land line since 2004, and I do not miss it. However, I do not have an alarm or DSL, either.
You guys know AT&T will sell you just the DSL now right?
No need for a bundled POTS line (plain old telephone service)
$23/month.
http://consumerist.com/342490/get-at...l-in-5-minutes
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That must be new.
Last year, it cost $100 extra to install the dry line due to a special plug specific to the dry line and you had to pay the full non-discounted price for the DSL. I got the same price for the basic phone service and DSL as what I would have had to pay for just DSL per month.
My bill is $46/month after taxes and includes the Pro DSL service $25 with $15 for the phone line.
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The FTC made ATT offer naked DSL as a condition of them buying Bell South, it's been available for about 10 months and ATT has been slow about letting anyone know about it, like their own employees, it took me an hour & half to get them to agree to sell it to me, then in true SBC/ATT fashion, a tech stole my pair last month when he hooked up a new neighbor, he listened to my line, no dial tone and gave it away, took 4 days to get it back.
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What did they steal?
Sounds painful!
The hours on the phone were painful... Damn tech lied in his repair report on the first visit, said his repairs were verified inside the house, got home that night and no internets.
The CSR told me what the tech wrote in his repair report & much fun was had about ATT & accountability of their repair guys. I got 3 different follow up calls from ATT apologizing about the mess.
Since I have DSL, not cable, the signal is transmitted over the regular phone lines; referred to as a "twisted pair". When someone got new service in my neighborhood, the tech hooked up their handset, and upon not hearing a dial tone on my no phone service line, (old habit, they're supposed to hook up a different device now to test for an internet signal since they sell a dry loop now) he disconnected me & gave the line to the new phone service subscriber, and hooked it up to regular phone service for them.
They refer to it as "stealing a pair"
I really wish I had cable or fiber service in my area, my speeds suck...
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Ahhh... I see... thanks for the info!
I did the same as well... I think the limited outgoing local calls are very generous. Something like 100 per month.
I have tons of cell minutes and 3 active cell phones in the house on a corp plan, so I don't worry about cell minutes. The alarm and power issues are the only reasons I can think of to keep a regular phone. If its less than $20 a month then I will.
ok went to the $5.55 deal. Thanks guys.
Tell us more about this $5.55 plan, you got a link?
I got my AT&T bill at the $20.00 a month mark, but we hardly ever use the land line anymore.
I moved over to ATT U-verse, then got rid of the phone line. I didn't know they offered DSL w/o the phone now, but I really like the U-Verse.
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