Long Distance Shopping

[bjarvis]

Not shopping over a long distance, but shopping for a long distance service provider for our residential telephone.

MCI has been our residential long distance provider for years but they're getting out of the residential business. I'm sure the default long distance charges via our local provider (Verizon) will be horrendous so I'm looking into possibilities for a replacement provider.

Verizon has a couple of packages offered online but it's not clear how much calls to Canada would cost --our major long distance destination. I went online to check with our mobile phone providers about their long distance rates but they're even more ambiguous.

I'll have to talk to a human at some point to get this sorted out. Ew.

Comments

[weekilter.livejournal.com]

Not exactly direct dial, but I've used OneSuite <http://www.onesuite.com> and they're great. If they have a local access number long distance to the US/Canada/the UK and several other places in Europe are only 2.5¢/minute. International rates are very low (at least to wireline phones.)

I never trusted MCI after that fiasco with WorldCom and the cooked books. But lots of companies cooked books including Qwest and Adelphia.