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Need to find long-distance phone service!
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| Julie P. 2005-05-19, 11:51 am |
| Hi! I signed up with Verizon almost a month ago for home service. I have
only a few days left to choose a long-distance provider (one for in state
and another for out of state), otherwise there will be a $5 fee if I choose
one after 30 days.
Verizon has a huge list available, but does anyone have any recommendations?
IDT? Ver-tec?
Right now I cannot dial long-distance, except with a calling card. Choosing
a provider will change this. I pay 2.9 cents a minute with my calling card,
so the service would have to be lower than this.
Thanks!
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| Stanley Reynolds 2005-05-19, 11:51 am |
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"Julie P." <jporpiglia@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:35GdnWvzx4eXnhz
fRVn-rw@comcast.com...
> Hi! I signed up with Verizon almost a month ago for home service. I have
> only a few days left to choose a long-distance provider (one for in state
> and another for out of state), otherwise there will be a $5 fee if I
choose
> one after 30 days.
>
> Verizon has a huge list available, but does anyone have any
recommendations?
> IDT? Ver-tec?
>
> Right now I cannot dial long-distance, except with a calling card.
Choosing
> a provider will change this. I pay 2.9 cents a minute with my calling
card,
> so the service would have to be lower than this.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
http://www.longdistance.com/
I've been happy with these people for 3 years they have different plans
depending on your needs, 5¢ per minute for calls from 7pm until 7am, 10¢
per minute for calls from 7am until 7pm with no monthly fees.
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| Bob Ward 2005-05-19, 11:51 am |
| On Tue, 10 May 2005 14:48:01 -0500, "Stanley Reynolds"
< nospam_stanley_reyno
lds@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>"Julie P." <jporpiglia@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:35GdnWvzx4eXnhz
fRVn-rw@comcast.com...
>choose
>recommendations?
>Choosing
>card,
>
> http://www.longdistance.com/
>I've been happy with these people for 3 years they have different plans
>depending on your needs, 5¢ per minute for calls from 7pm until 7am, 10¢
>per minute for calls from 7am until 7pm with no monthly fees.
>
Sounds like you missed the important point above - she's getting 2.9
cents per minute with a calling card - I'd stick with that, since the
2.9 cents per minute is a net rate, with no bogus taxes, recovery
fees, or additional charges to drive the cost up.
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I don't have the number in front of me, but we have been using a
service that charges is 3 cents a minute for long distance. In-state or
across country. It's one of those 10-10 numbers and the calls come
listed on our regular phone bill. No calling card needed, just dial the
code in front of the number we want to dial.
The phone bills says www.vartec.com above the charges so perhaps that
web site can help. :-)
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| Steven M. Scharf 2005-05-19, 11:51 am |
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"Julie P." <jporpiglia@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:35GdnWvzx4eXnhz
fRVn-rw@comcast.com...
> Hi! I signed up with Verizon almost a month ago for home service. I have
> only a few days left to choose a long-distance provider (one for in state
> and another for out of state), otherwise there will be a $5 fee if I
choose
> one after 30 days.
Use One-Suite. It's very convenient since you don't need to enter a PIN from
phone numbers that you register, and you can register speed dial numbers. I
program a key on my phones to call the local access number, then a two digit
code for the most used numbers. It's 2.5 cents per minute (more if you use
the 800 number instead of local access number). It's especially good for
intra-LATA calls, since it's much cheaper than the local phone company.
http://onesuite.com
I dropped a long distance provider completely. I didn't want people
accidentally dialing long distance instead of using One-Suite, though this
restriction doesn't work for intra-LATA.
Of course during off-peak, using a cell phone is free, and have 8:00 p.m.
off-peak.
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| googled 2005-05-19, 11:52 am |
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"Ryan" <welziak@snet.net> wrote in message
news:1115757910.470699.149010@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
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> I don't have the number in front of me, but we have been using a
> service that charges is 3 cents a minute for long distance. In-state or
> across country. It's one of those 10-10 numbers and the calls come
> listed on our regular phone bill. No calling card needed, just dial the
> code in front of the number we want to dial.
>
> The phone bills says www.vartec.com above the charges so perhaps that
> web site can help. :-)
>
What is the connection charge or monthly fee ? Can't get 3 cents per minute
on 10-10 without one or the other.
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| googled 2005-05-19, 11:52 am |
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"Julie P." <jporpiglia@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:35GdnWvzx4eXnhz
fRVn-rw@comcast.com...
> Hi! I signed up with Verizon almost a month ago for home service. I have
> only a few days left to choose a long-distance provider (one for in state
> and another for out of state), otherwise there will be a $5 fee if I
choose
> one after 30 days.
>
> Verizon has a huge list available, but does anyone have any
recommendations?
> IDT? Ver-tec?
>
> Right now I cannot dial long-distance, except with a calling card.
Choosing
> a provider will change this. I pay 2.9 cents a minute with my calling
card,
> so the service would have to be lower than this.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
Try this site http://www.myrateplan.com/bestplan/ to see if you can find a
lower rate. You can always choose no long distance provider. Do not select
Verizon for in state long distance. Might be best to stick with the calling
card.
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| Stanley Reynolds 2005-05-19, 11:52 am |
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"Bob Ward" <bobward@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:iq62815af93f7qn
e5lcc035nsjjej44kou@
4ax.com...
> On Tue, 10 May 2005 14:48:01 -0500, "Stanley Reynolds"
> < nospam_stanley_reyno
lds@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
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> Sounds like you missed the important point above - she's getting 2.9
> cents per minute with a calling card - I'd stick with that, since the
> 2.9 cents per minute is a net rate, with no bogus taxes, recovery
> fees, or additional charges to drive the cost up.
Bob what you missed is she needs to have a long-distance provider that
charges zero per month then she can use her calling card or the default
provider. If she always uses a card then the rates on the assigned provider
doesn't matter, but if she picks a provider with a monthly charge then she
has to pay that every month even if she doesn't use them.
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| Stanley Reynolds 2005-05-19, 11:52 am |
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"googled" <googled@blah.com> wrote in message
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ws...
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> "Julie P." <jporpiglia@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:35GdnWvzx4eXnhz
fRVn-rw@comcast.com...
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> choose
> recommendations?
> Choosing
> card,
>
> Try this site http://www.myrateplan.com/bestplan/ to see if you can find a
> lower rate. You can always choose no long distance provider. Do not select
> Verizon for in state long distance. Might be best to stick with the
calling
> card.
>
>
Here in Alabama it cost extra to pick no long distance provider.
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| Bob Ward 2005-05-19, 11:52 am |
| On Tue, 10 May 2005 16:27:56 -0500, "Stanley Reynolds"
< nospam_stanley_reyno
lds@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>"Bob Ward" <bobward@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:iq62815af93f7qn
e5lcc035nsjjej44kou@
4ax.com...
>have
>state
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>Bob what you missed is she needs to have a long-distance provider that
>charges zero per month then she can use her calling card or the default
>provider. If she always uses a card then the rates on the assigned provider
>doesn't matter, but if she picks a provider with a monthly charge then she
>has to pay that every month even if she doesn't use them.
>
Apparently things are different where she lives - many posters report
that they have been successful in specifying NO long distance as the
default.
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"Julie P." wrote:
>
> Hi! I signed up with Verizon almost a month ago for home service. I have
> only a few days left to choose a long-distance provider (one for in state
> and another for out of state), otherwise there will be a $5 fee if I choose
> one after 30 days.
>
> Verizon has a huge list available, but does anyone have any recommendations?
> IDT? Ver-tec?
>
> Right now I cannot dial long-distance, except with a calling card. Choosing
> a provider will change this. I pay 2.9 cents a minute with my calling card,
> so the service would have to be lower than this.
>
> Thanks!
Did you ask Verizon if they can give you their own no-fee long
distance service? I was able to get no monthly fee LD service
from them and while them per minute charge isn't as cheap as
2.9c per minute, for the very rare LD phone call that I make,
it's fine.
Bill
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| Stanley Reynolds 2005-05-19, 11:52 am |
| <snip>
> Apparently things are different where she lives - many posters report
> that they have been successful in specifying NO long distance as the
> default.
Yes you can specify no longdistance provider, but the local phone company
gets payments from the long distance provider which vary. The local company
can recover this from people who have no long distance provider as a
surcharge. If you have a state PSC and they regulate rates then they have
say as to this fee otherwise the local company determines this. Note these
payments from long distance providers to the local companies were started
with the court ordered breakup of AT&T . This hidden fee/tax has problems as
ISP and VOIP providers do not pay and as people replace their long distance
with VOIP then this revenue goes down. Most of the low cost prepay cards are
using VOIP.
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| googled 2005-05-19, 11:52 am |
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"Stanley Reynolds" < nospam_stanley_reyno
lds@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "googled" <googled@blah.com> wrote in message
> news:1115758548. 5279a058959a485672f3
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> calling
> Here in Alabama it cost extra to pick no long distance provider.
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>
In Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York it costs zero to specifically
choose "none" as your selected long distance provider. How can your
telephone service provider justify charging anything, let alone extra, for
"none".
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| Stanley Reynolds 2005-05-19, 11:52 am |
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> In Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York it costs zero to specifically
> choose "none" as your selected long distance provider. How can your
> telephone service provider justify charging anything, let alone extra, for
> "none".
>
>
From the FCC web site : 'How do you drop your long-distance phone company?
Call your local phone company and tell them that you no longer wish to have
a presubscribed long distance carrier for your phone line. Your local phone
company may charge you a small fee to drop your long distance company, the
same fee it charges customers who switch long distance companies and it may
charge you a "Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier Charge" directly. '
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/lowerbill.html (scroll to bottom)
From the web site it indicates this fee is only required for multi lines
after July 1, 2000 but maybe local companies are slow to remove this fee.
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/PICCchanges.html
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| Bob Ward 2005-05-19, 11:52 am |
| On Wed, 11 May 2005 01:14:34 -0500, "Stanley Reynolds"
< nospam_stanley_reyno
lds@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>From the FCC web site : 'How do you drop your long-distance phone company?
>Call your local phone company and tell them that you no longer wish to have
>a presubscribed long distance carrier for your phone line. Your local phone
>company may charge you a small fee to drop your long distance company, the
>same fee it charges customers who switch long distance companies and it may
>charge you a "Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier Charge" directly. '
>
>http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/lowerbill.html (scroll to bottom)
>
>From the web site it indicates this fee is only required for multi lines
>after July 1, 2000 but maybe local companies are slow to remove this fee.
>
>http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/PICCchanges.html
>
On other words, a one-time charge, not a monthly charge for providing
no service.
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| Stanley Reynolds 2005-05-19, 11:52 am |
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"Bob Ward" <bobward@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 11 May 2005 01:14:34 -0500, "Stanley Reynolds"
> < nospam_stanley_reyno
lds@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
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> On other words, a one-time charge, not a monthly charge for providing
> no service.
The Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier Charge is a monthly fee paid by the
longdistance company to the local phone company to help pay fixed cost to
provide the local loop, they also pay a per min rate on all calls that are
terminated in the local companies lines. If you set your carrier to none you
have cost your local phone company money that they would have collected from
the long distance company so they are now charging you this monthly charge
to have a local loop to receive long distance calls on. The idea of this
tax/fee was to provide lower cost local lines by having the users, long
distance companies pay part of the fixed cost that a local company provides.
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| David Samuel Barr 2005-05-19, 11:52 am |
| Bill wrote:
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> "Julie P." wrote:
>
> Did you ask Verizon if they can give you their own no-fee long
> distance service? I was able to get no monthly fee LD service
> from them and while them per minute charge isn't as cheap as
> 2.9c per minute, for the very rare LD phone call that I make,
> it's fine.
The Verizon no-monthly-fee LD rate is 25 cents per minute (about to be
raised to 30 cents), if you consider that "fine". They used to have a
no-fee "eValues" plan at 5 cents per minute, but they instituted a $1.50
monthly fee for that plan a few months ago.
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| David Samuel Barr wrote:
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> Bill wrote:
>
> The Verizon no-monthly-fee LD rate is 25 cents per minute (about to be
> raised to 30 cents), if you consider that "fine". They used to have a
> no-fee "eValues" plan at 5 cents per minute, but they instituted a $1.50
> monthly fee for that plan a few months ago.
I'm on the 5c plan, but I have a local calling package, so that
is probably why I don't pay the monthly fee. 25c isn't fine,
unless you are absolutely sure you won't make any LD calls.
Bill
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| googled 2005-05-19, 11:52 am |
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"Stanley Reynolds" < nospam_stanley_reyno
lds@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Gwhge.12382$eJ4.5120@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
for[color=darkred]
>
> From the FCC web site : 'How do you drop your long-distance phone company?
> Call your local phone company and tell them that you no longer wish to
have
> a presubscribed long distance carrier for your phone line. Your local
phone
> company may charge you a small fee to drop your long distance company, the
> same fee it charges customers who switch long distance companies and it
may
> charge you a "Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier Charge" directly. '
>
> http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/lowerbill.html (scroll to bottom)
>
> From the web site it indicates this fee is only required for multi lines
> after July 1, 2000 but maybe local companies are slow to remove this fee.
>
> http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/PICCchanges.html
>
>
If you already have a long distance service and want to drop it, you will be
charged for the switch to "none" because you are making a change to your
existing service. If you have initiated new local service you will not be
charged for selecting "none" for long distance, because you are not changing
anything.
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| Eddie Lindell 2005-05-19, 11:52 am |
| In article <35GdnWvzx4eXnhzfRVn-rw@comcast.com>, jporpiglia@hotmail.com
says...
> Hi! I signed up with Verizon almost a month ago for home service. I have
> only a few days left to choose a long-distance provider (one for in state
> and another for out of state), otherwise there will be a $5 fee if I choose
> one after 30 days.
>
> Verizon has a huge list available, but does anyone have any recommendations?
> IDT? Ver-tec?
>
> Right now I cannot dial long-distance, except with a calling card. Choosing
> a provider will change this. I pay 2.9 cents a minute with my calling card,
> so the service would have to be lower than this.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Use OneSuite (onesuite.com) . It's the best and cheapest service out there.
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