Sunday, September 04, 2005
Unfair and InflexibleSM
We're still thinking about getting a second moblie phone. If we do, then we'll likely do away with the land line to our house. (Just how do the traditional wired phone companies plan to make money in the future?) Anyway, Sprint has "Fair and FlexibleSM" plans. One reason I find this interesting is that this must mean that their other plans are Unfair and Inflexible, right?
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"Fair and Flexible" rings a bell. Wasn't that the Fox network slogan that everyone laughed at because it was so obviously insincere. Just realised that was "Fair and Balenced".
Good luck doing away with your land-line. We have thought of it also, but Kim always brings up the point that if her mother calls and wants to talk for half an hour, it would cost her a fortune. So it stays.
I don't really ever plan to own a mobile phone, but it's been more than a year since we ditched our "traditional" phone company and went to VoIP.
We couldn't possibly be happier with it - all the bells and whistles you can imagine and free long distance anywhere in the USA or Canada for less than $15 a month. (And just 4 cents a minute to Australia!)
Every month when we pay the bill, we laugh at the poor suckers who are paying $80+ for local, long distance, caller ID, voice mail, and all the other stuff people spend money on.
I have a friend with Vonage who had lived in Orlando, and recently moved to Atlanta. His reviews were mixed at best, mainly in the reliability of the service. On the other hand, he thought it was great that, when he got to Atlanta, he could unpack the box, plug it in and get phone service. (Of course, this presumes an internet connection.)
Ads I've seen for Vonage advertise $25 a month. How do you get $15? I think my wired phone is about $22 per month, and our wirless one is about $33. To add enough minutes to replace the land line with a second mobile phone, we're looking at $70 or $80 total per month.
It's $25 a month for unlimited calling, $15 for a total of 500 outgoing minutes (to North America).
If you get the $15 plan, it's 3.9 cents a minute after the first 500 minutes, so that's the way to go if you're going to stay under about 750 minutes a month.
We've never even come close to 500 minutes, and Jodi uses the phone *a lot*.
Interesting that reliability has been a problem - we've never had even the slightest issue with that, other than once when our ISP's servers bit the dust for a few hours.
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