We don't get good enough reception here for me to drop the land line. Yuma has a lot of dead areas, and I often have to step outside to hear... which sucks when it's 125 degrees outside. I make calls as quick as possible when that happens! I have Qwest for my land line, and I'm very happy with them. I'd end up paying more for Verizon to up my minutes than I do for Verizon and Qwest every month now... plus I have unlimited long distance on the land line. Some of my volunteers I can only reach via their cell with a long distance number (like service people who keep their home-area numbers), I really need that unlimited long-distance! I probably log a good 20 hours a week on the phone with my volunteer work. -- Piggy's Pad

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Date Posted: 7:32:35 pm, Wed, 06/06/07
Author: V~
Subject: We don't get good enough reception here for me to drop the land line. Yuma has a lot of dead areas, and I often have to step outside to hear... which sucks when it's 125 degrees outside. I make calls as quick as possible when that happens! I have Qwest for my land line, and I'm very happy with them. I'd end up paying more for Verizon to up my minutes than I do for Verizon and Qwest every month now... plus I have unlimited long distance on the land line. Some of my volunteers I can only reach via their cell with a long distance number (like service people who keep their home-area numbers), I really need that unlimited long-distance! I probably log a good 20 hours a week on the phone with my volunteer work.
In reply to: Sandy 's message, "When we disconnected our house phone and gave AT&T the long overdue and deserved boot, I upped our Verizon peak minutes to 1400 a month. I'd been watching our phone bills for about 6 months and adding up the long distance minutes, doubling that amount to balance the INcoming long distance and then doubled it again to count for regular calls. We're at mid-month and we've only used about 300 minutes between both of us. So I think I planned well, even if I was on the high side. But I'd rather be high than not have enough and have to pay 40+ cents a minute for an overage. Even with upping our minutes that high, we're still saving money over paying both AT&T and Verizon. I just plain hated AT&T. They'd pulled some sneaky stuff lately and made me mad, whereby I've had very few problems with Verizon since we first started with them so very long ago, and those problems were only for billing errors, which they fixed immediately. So, me? I'm happy as a clam at high tide......LOL." on 6:29:11 pm, Wed, 06/06/07

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The one thing I hate about Verizon is how late the free evening minutes kick in. With me on PST, it's midnight to call friends on the East Coast! I wish they'd knock the time down to at least 7:00. (NT) -- V~, 7:34:17 pm, Wed, 06/06/07
I do agree with you on that one. I run into that problem with Kate, Gerry's family and my girlfriend in South Carolina. It *would* be nice if they'd follow Cingular's lead and start those night calling minutes at 7 p.m. but I'm not holding my breath. Of course, Cingular/AT&T is the worst carrier in the USA. My youngest sister has them (her hubby arranged for their cell service) and I keep telling her to drop Cingular and go with Verizon. But it's got to be hard on you when you're in the Pacific time zone and the rest of us are a lot earlier than you are. (NT) -- Sandy, 5:23:14 am, Thu, 06/07/07
BTW, just a heads up for you.......and this is part of the reason why we were able to go ahead and drop AT&T. Were you aware that AT&T is no longer offering their Unlimited Nationwide long distance to new customers and they're going to be dropping this plan all together in the future? According to what I've read, there's been no date set for them taking away the unlimited long distance but it's coming. That plan was a lifesaver for us when my Dad died and we found out what my older sister had **really** been up to. I mean, I was racking up over 4,000 (yup, that's right......four THOUSAND) minutes of long distance between myself and my two younger sisters in Little Rock and Houston. We never could have paid the bill if we had to pay for each minute......even at 5 cents. But now, with both Mom and Dad being gone, I don't foresee that kind of thing happening again. And if it does, I guess I just call Verizon and go for the "heavy duty" plan. (NT) -- Sandy, 5:28:33 am, Thu, 06/07/07
Wow! I just got a flyer from AT&T offering free nationwide long distance if I switched. I am VERY happy with Qwest tho, so not switching. My cable company offers digital long distance they could add to my bundle (tv and internet) with unlimited long distance in the US and Canada... I'll probably switch to them if Qwest drops the unlimited long distance. I want to keep my same home phone number tho... for sentimental reasons. We've had this same phone number for 45 years now... and Daddy has relatives that I have no clue how to reach that have this number... so I do NOT want to lose it! Silly maybe, but oh well.... (NT) -- V~, 9:03:30 am, Thu, 06/07/07
But if you are talking to someone with Verizon you don't have to worry about when the free evening minutes kick in right? I love my cell and with working WW I use it so much more now!! (NT) -- Kate, 9:30:01 am, Thu, 06/07/07

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