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Usenet and NGs dying?
"rickman" wrote in message ... . Are you sure about your phone rates? My land line is $15 a month total with more than half being various add ons the phone company would like you to think are taxes, but aren't. In fact, AT&T once lied to me that the universal service fee was a tax they were required to collect from consumers by the government. I contacted the FCC who said it was just a tax on the phone companies. My Republic plan is interisting. For $ 10 (12 after tax) I get unlimiated phone and text. Most of the time the phone will attach to a wifi if close, but will go to the cell tower if it has to. I also get unlimiated data by going through wifi only. I don't ever need the data, but do play with it alot around the house on my wifi and in waiting rooms at doctors. If I get into a bind and really need data without wifi I can tell the phone to activate a data plan for about $ 20 per month and when done, go back to wifi. I may look into that. Seems they use Sprint for phone calls which not a good one for coverage. Can you make calls through your Internet connection? My land line phone rate is close to $ 40 per month. The basic service runs just under $ 20, then 911, long distance line connect, 10 cents per minuit long distance and a bunch of other taxes and such run it to about $ 40 per month. Republic works by mostly connecting by what ever wifi system it is near. If no wifi then it will use a cell tower. The one bad thing is they require you to use one of their smart phones. It is like any common smart phone using the Android system, but it uses some of their special software. You buy their phone, I think one is about $ 100 another about $ 200 and another that costs much more. They seem to bepriced by the ammount of memory and the meg of camera pixals. I can sit in my house (or anywhere there is wifi) and look at most anything on the internet. With the cable tv or direct tv I can even watch much of what I subscribe to. Not sure if that is over the internet or from the device hooked to the tv. I think it is over the internet. I don't know what phone service they use. I seldom make phone calls. Just mostly want it for emergencies. |
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