On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:05:39 -0400, SR wrote:

First let me said this: I do not need or care for a cell phone. Their
too expensive and I find counting minutes a nuance.

When I go online, my telephone line is busy. So I want to have a beeper
so that my brother can call the beeper, once I get the beep, I can then
call him back.

Get the cell phones with a prepaid service that will last for a year
once you put some money in. Then your brother phones and lets the
phone ring twice and hangs up.

Tony

Phone twice and then hang up.Back in the 1950's my family had a phone
code.Let the phone ring twice and hang up and let it ring again,that way
we knew it was from a family member.When someone went to a city far
enough away that it was long distance and we wanted to know if they got
there ok.Phone and ask for someone by a different name.Is Leroy there?
No he isn't here.
cuhulin

Tony VE6MVP wrote:
Get the cell phones with a prepaid service that will last for a year
once you put some money in. Then your brother phones and lets the
phone ring twice and hangs up.

You can also send SMS messages from ICQ for free. If your plan charges
you for incoming SMS messages, you will have to pay your SP's fee.

If you have a Linux (or similar) system, you can find a program that
will send the messages for you without a phone via a command line. That
way you can do all sorts of interesting things, include an email to SMS
gateway, send you messages at specific times, follow an RSS feed and SMS
you messages, etc.

Geoff.


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I used to have call waiting.I could set my webtv so that it would
automatically disconnect from the phone line so I could answer my
phone.Then,when I got through using my phone,I would press a key on my
keyboard and dial right on back on to the internet and I wouldn't lose
my place of where I was on the internet before my webtv box disconected.

There are three certain times three times each day that I get off of the
internet for a certain while in case family members and friends want to
phone me.If there is an emergency situation and I am on the
internet,they will phone two elderly people down the street from me and
they will get me on our FRS two way radios.radios.It works for me.
cuhulin

Would Skype phone work for you? www.skype.com I think if you have
DSL you can use your computer and regular land line phone at the same
time.
cuhulin