...just want to get rid of the silly 10 cents/minute long distance charges
when we have an hour long conversation with family members.
Unlike many folks, my wife and I do not much care for our cell phones.
We carry them primarily for communication when we're traveling. We do
not use or need text or data services. The phones are not attached to
our hips ....My take from all of this is to invest in one of Ken's "buggy
whips" to
go along with the type of service I have which is why those particular
"buggy whips" were invented.
Chuck, your cell phone use parallels to mine albeit for slightly
different reasons. I don't get any bars here at the house and most
places around here lack service. Anyway this is what I do and may save
you some $$ _if_ you could relax the requirement for a land-based
VOIP. I don't know what your cell service costs per month but friends
are paying $50-60/mo and up. Mostly way up. What I did was get a prepaid
stupid phone (as opposed to smart phone) and 3x minutes from Tracfone.
Basically I get the phone and a couple thousand minutes for a net cost
of about $7.50/mo. Now the deal is that I have to add minutes at least
once a year to keep rolling over the remaining minutes. So the end of
the year is coming and I still have 1900+ minutes left. Seems like
calling friends and family would be a good way to burn through a few
hours. Add more minutes as needed but I never need to. I just add the
minimum amount just before the year is up. For emergency use it works
for me. When 19th CenturyLink's pipe to the mainland broke last winter
taking out all phone and local towers and was down for nearly 2wks it
was our only communication. I had to drive down to the south end and
bounce off a tower on the Olympic Peninsula across the Straits. It only
works for calls originating from the US but not a problem for you I
suspect. What is a pain for me though is that the westside of the island
connects through towers on the Saanich Peninsula making all calls
international :(
Just a thought. Might save you some pesos if you have an expensive cell
plan.
<http://www.tracfone.com/>
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