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

[abqdan.livejournal.com]

I'm glad they've improved the service. The (geek) problem is that you are taking a digital signal, changing it to analog, then back to digital twice in order to get a message through from the house to the alarm company. That doesn't work in a lot of cases, but I guess they've found a way around it. Our alarm company (ADT) will not support a Vonage connection, but they apparently do have a deal with Comcast now if you use their internet phone service.

I think fax is still a problem unless you get an extra 'fax line' from them.