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

up here in the MD burbs

[(Anonymous)]

Vonage has a less-wonderful reputation. Everyone I know that tried it bailed out - usually due to poor service. Most actually never got it to work - that might be Vonage, or Comcast, or the weird intersection of the two, but it didn't work.

I actually shut off my LD service on my landline - calling cards will do everything I need at home, and my cell phone has it for free.

David R.
Towson