Derald <derald@invalid.net>: Jan 16 02:22PM -0500
>Does anybody have a suggestion as to how I can get the cost of overseas
>calls down? PS: Using Skype and other Internet methods is not an
>option for me as I am on dialup...
You can begin by comparing Onesuite's international rates to what
you are now paying. It's a dialaround that works from any phone.
Caveat: After initial payment, in order to keep it active one must place
a call within six months of the most recent call. I've been using the
same ten bucks for at least fifteen years....
If you have reason to believe those folks actually want to talk to
you, arrange a "callback: You call them but hang up before their
damnable voice mail intercedes. Their phones log incoming, including
missed, calls. If they actually want to talk to you, they can call back
on their dimes.
Another alternative is to ditch the land line and port its number
to a low-cost cell service. I 86'd Verizon (now Frontier in this part
of USA) when it refused to repair or maintain my copper hookup in order
to coerce me on to (far less reliable) FiOS. Ported the number to
PagePlus's "12" service with auto billing. So for $10/month plus local
tax and e-911 fee, which together total $11.22, I have more "talk time"
than I'll ever want on the Verizon Wireless cellular network. Voice
mail, SMS, and data are disabled (at the source, not on the phone) and
so I don't have to deal with those nuisances.
If your land line provider offers "bare" or "naked" Internet, you
will be able to keep your dial-up Internet access.
--
Derald
...the only traits that are passed down in your family
are perversity, ego-centrism, laziness and sociopathic tendencies.
--Lynn Barton, Filedheacht Music School, East Bridgewater, MA
July, 2016
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