I Fired The Telephone Company
You know, there was a reason the US Government broke up the phone company.
Southwestern Bell is a good example of why. Ever since moving to Texas, every time I've had to deal with them they were overpriced, gave poor service, and always had a nasty attitude. They still have that old Ma Bell "We can do what we want, we're the PHONE COMPANY" attitude.
So I fired them.
Totally fed up with the rotten, slow DSL they stuck me with (less than half the speed of the Verizon DSL I had in Plano) I told them to shove it and I went with Comcast Cable. It's a bit more expensive but it's way faster, and in the long run, cheaper ... I'll show you why in a minute.
Of course, SWB gave me grief about having a year contract, and told me they'd charge me $200 for early termination. I shot back that they were in breach of contract all along because they couldn't give me the connection speed they'd promised. And, of course, their attitude was that I had to abide by my promise, but they don't, because THEY'RE the PHONE COMPANY.
So I told them to shove their damn phone connection all together. Cancelled it. They were incredulous ... not able to comprehend in the least how someone would not want a phone.
Ah, but that's where I got them. Since I have high speed (and I'm talking HIGH speed) Internet coming in through my cable connection, I signed up for a service called Vonage, who, for $30 a month, send you a little box to hook to your broadband connection, and you plug your phone into the box.
It works great, and I'm saving about $40 a month! How? Because between the DSL and my phone I was paying about $120 a month and now I'm only paying $80 for the combination of Comcast and Vonage.
Here's their link if you want to check it out yourself: http://www.vonage.com/
If you decide you would like to fire the phone company too, get a hold of me, because if you sign up with a referral you'll get up to $40 off the first month.
Independence from the phone company. You gotta love it.
Southwestern Bell is a good example of why. Ever since moving to Texas, every time I've had to deal with them they were overpriced, gave poor service, and always had a nasty attitude. They still have that old Ma Bell "We can do what we want, we're the PHONE COMPANY" attitude.
So I fired them.
Totally fed up with the rotten, slow DSL they stuck me with (less than half the speed of the Verizon DSL I had in Plano) I told them to shove it and I went with Comcast Cable. It's a bit more expensive but it's way faster, and in the long run, cheaper ... I'll show you why in a minute.
Of course, SWB gave me grief about having a year contract, and told me they'd charge me $200 for early termination. I shot back that they were in breach of contract all along because they couldn't give me the connection speed they'd promised. And, of course, their attitude was that I had to abide by my promise, but they don't, because THEY'RE the PHONE COMPANY.
So I told them to shove their damn phone connection all together. Cancelled it. They were incredulous ... not able to comprehend in the least how someone would not want a phone.
Ah, but that's where I got them. Since I have high speed (and I'm talking HIGH speed) Internet coming in through my cable connection, I signed up for a service called Vonage, who, for $30 a month, send you a little box to hook to your broadband connection, and you plug your phone into the box.
It works great, and I'm saving about $40 a month! How? Because between the DSL and my phone I was paying about $120 a month and now I'm only paying $80 for the combination of Comcast and Vonage.
Here's their link if you want to check it out yourself: http://www.vonage.com/
If you decide you would like to fire the phone company too, get a hold of me, because if you sign up with a referral you'll get up to $40 off the first month.
Independence from the phone company. You gotta love it.
3 Comments:
What?!? No phone line from MA BELL?!?! (Or the Texican version... Uh, Ma Bush?) Why, why, that's JUST PLAIN COMMUNIST! (Not to mention UNPATRIOTIC!) I mean, if every one just decided to go out and arainge their own phone service, they might start doing other things to, like VOTING (and you KNOW we can't have THAT!) ;-)
Excellent! The one thing that I can always be sure of from you is your outright zeal in sticking it to the man. Good work my friend!
Out here in my jerkwater, if I didn't have the public phone company, I'd be forced to just walk outside and yell. God, I miss living in the real world...
KLN
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