Tom, in DC Economy 1 service costs $6.00 a month. No bells and
whistles and you pay 6 cents a call. Local calling only. With taxes and
surcharges that's no more than $12.00 a month.
I suggest $12 a month is reasonable for security. Further I suspect one
can still call toll free numbers,
Are you talking about the Jitterbug cell phone? Someone in an another
group I frequent had an awful time getting one of those to work.
Want to tell us more or provide a link to their archive?
--
Thomas Piwowar - Thomas J.
Here's one I think. http://www.jitterbug.com/
The scary part is footnote #1:
¹Not including government taxes, assessment surcharges and activation
fee.
If the surcharge is anything like the gotcha airfare surcharge not
included in that low advertised price,
it can wind up being an
That is almost identical language to the footnote on a price-hike
announcement we got yesterday from Verizon (we have their DSL service).
No mention in there about whether or not we will have the option of
switching to FiOS, just the price hike to more than $20 per month.
John J Settle [EMAIL
It was a side conversation on usenet.
Ok a quick trip to google groups turned up the beginning of the saga
in September.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.tv/browse_thread/thread/3ac9648fb8cb5428/da1bf0155f137ffd?lnk=gstq=jitterbug+#da1bf0155f137ffd
Anim8orFSK changed his signature in
Tom, in DC Economy 1 service costs $6.00 a month. No bells and
whistles and you pay 6 cents a call. Local calling only. With taxes and
surcharges that's no more than $12.00 a month.
Thanks Eric. My Mom is in New York and we have spent many hours talking
to Verizon/MCI trying to get her a
Yes, what's that one advertised all the time? It has big buttons and
is only a cell phone without all the gimmicks like camera and web
access, etc. And they advertise it has plans as low as $9.95/mo. It's
called the skipper, or some stupid name like that. I'll have to wait
for the
Jitter bug?
Stewart
At 05:40 PM 4/15/2008, you wrote:
Yes, what's that one advertised all the time? It has big
buttons and
is only a cell phone without all the gimmicks like camera and web
access, etc. And they advertise it has plans as low as $9.95/mo. It's
called the skipper, or
Yes, that's it. Here's a link: *http://tinyurl.com/5ztmz4*
Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
Jitter bug?
Stewart
At 05:40 PM 4/15/2008, you wrote:
Yes, what's that one advertised all the time? It has big
buttons and
is only a cell phone without all the gimmicks like camera and web
I really should read ahead before responding to my own posts. You guys
got it!
Jeff M
On Apr 15, 2008, at 5:06 PM, John Settle wrote:
Yes, that's it. Here's a link: *http://tinyurl.com/5ztmz4*
Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
Jitter bug?
Stewart
At 05:40 PM 4/15/2008, you wrote:
Are you talking about the Jitterbug cell phone? Someone in an another
group I frequent had an awful time getting one of those to work.
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Jeff Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, what's that one advertised all the time? It has big buttons and
is only a
We must be talking about two different things. The plan I read about
in the telephone directory wasn't that cheap...
The phone companies deserve all the bashing they get. I remember
visiting my elderly mother, in Florida, and thinking I'd take a few
minutes to reduce the full-option phone
@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 2:15:18 PM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Signs of the arrival of FIOS
In the past I have tried to get info on this kind of service and found
nothing. I wanted to get it for my 90 year old Mom who never uses the
phone and should not be wasting her social secutity check
At 2:15 PM -0400 4/12/08, Eric S. Sande wrote:
In the past I have tried to get info on this kind of service and
found nothing. I wanted to get it for my 90 year old Mom who never
uses the phone and should not be wasting her social secutity check
on enriching the phone company. I think
Thanks for the link. I followed it up. It is a stingy program. The plan
will reduce the monthly bill by up to $13.30. I expect that up to
means the real reduction will be significantly less. To qualify you have
to be very poor. The least expensive service I could find was about
$50/month. So
We must be talking about two different things. The plan I read about
in the telephone directory wasn't that cheap...
The phone companies deserve all the bashing they get. I remember
visiting my elderly mother, in Florida, and thinking I'd take a few
minutes to reduce the full-option phone
You could also add several batteries in parallel and extend the amount
of backup time.
Mason
Sent from my iPhone via SiteWelder
On Apr 12, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally I'ld suggest anyone
worried about losing connectivity after the UPS for FIOS runs
Personally I'ld suggest anyone
worried about losing connectivity after the UPS for FIOS runs out, get
or keep a 2nd line with as minimum a service as possible (look up
lifesaver line on Verizon's website for an idea of what I mean).
Googling in site:verizon.com lifesaver line or
In the past I have tried to get info on this kind of service and found
nothing. I wanted to get it for my 90 year old Mom who never uses the
phone and should not be wasting her social secutity check on enriching
the phone company. I think lifesaver is an urban myth disseminated by
Verizon to
I remember seeing such a plan described, in the telephone directory,
some years ago - It offered 50 calls a month (outgoing, unlimited
incoming IIRC). My guess would be the phone companies, realizing that
demand for such a plan was likely to skyrocket, quietly worked with
their
My guess would be the phone companies, realizing that
demand for such a plan was likely to skyrocket, quietly worked with
their congressional-critter friends to have it outlawed (in the
consumer interest, of course.)
Wrong. It's available, it's used. In the District it costs $3.00 a month.
While walking my dogs the other evening I noticed that many of the utility
poles in my subdivision have looped or coiled black cables taped onto them.
Some of the coils have an end that goes up to the level where the phone lines
are installed. I took a look at one loop of cable and it had a
I watched the installation in my neighborhood. They wrapped the fiber
line around the existing POTS lines. It was sort of cool there was a
spinner that wrapped the fiber around the line as it was pulled down
the line by a guy in a cherry picker bucket at line height from a
moving truck. They
Scott McClure:
1) With all the recent list discussion of the removal of the POTS copper lines
during a FIOS installation, what is the make-up of the lines that run along the
poles after the work that I am seeing performed?
Verizon tends to leave the copper lines in place unless of course an
24 matches
Mail list logo
