Monthly Service - Mar 28 thru Apr 27
Call Plan Unlimited 13.82
Non-Published Service 4.95
Caller Identification 7.50
Calling Name Display 2.00
Fuck, why is my phone bill twice what it should be simply so solicitors can't bug the shit out of me? Why should I have to pay so goddamn much?
That's a 1A, Ameritech, and I know for a fact it's been there since January 30, 1982. Why do I have to pay for a service that has been long since subsidized? It's not like you have to pay Western Electric for software updates on that beast every month simply to serve me caller ID. ha!
Bitches.
Call Plan Unlimited 13.82
Non-Published Service 4.95
Caller Identification 7.50
Calling Name Display 2.00
Fuck, why is my phone bill twice what it should be simply so solicitors can't bug the shit out of me? Why should I have to pay so goddamn much?
That's a 1A, Ameritech, and I know for a fact it's been there since January 30, 1982. Why do I have to pay for a service that has been long since subsidized? It's not like you have to pay Western Electric for software updates on that beast every month simply to serve me caller ID. ha!
Bitches.
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I knew AMT (ie SWB) was charging more for unpub, but $5 is just plain ridiculous. It's probably because they need to spend so much more on employees since most of them wind up going for daytime dalliances and/or falling asleep in their trucks during work hours...
I agree this isn't such a hot idea. See the problem here in detroit, is we get fax spam. Lots of it. Like I was getting one a day on my fax data line. I know you can sue for it, but I simply don't have the time to track them down, especially when the call is anonymous.
If my modem shows live as a modem, they'll start fax spamming me. I simply don't want my phone to ring unless it's someone I gave the number to. Since I subbed that line to the unlisted service the minute I ordered the line (actually in the same call I requested caller ID with name and unlisted number), I absolutely never get solicitation calls. Problem is that I pay that much for the privelege of silence.
I also use the caller ID service on it to allow the modem to selectively answer for numbers that I recognize as authorized dialin users (like the circuit switched number on my cellphone), and it will pick up and give me a getty on my firewall. yea, I know how easy it is to spoof caller ID with a PRI, but anyone who is exerting that much effort is gonna get in no matter what I do. heh.
input (even a simple voicemail program would do this), and drop to a) phone b) message
c) fax d) data depending on the input. You'd relieve yourself of the wretched ringing
by simply turning off the ring til the appropriate conditions were met, and then creating
a pseudo (computer-generated) ring at the line site. That, of course, though, would
create a multitude of other problems (nay, possibilities) which I'll leave as an
exercise to the reader.
* I'm surprised you haven't considered MCI's The Neighborhood. It's quite expensive, but
it's great if you're going to be spending at least that much anyway, you get quite a lot
of features for "free", and the signal to noise ratio is significantly better (blame it
on Bell -- I always do :))
* Exerting effort... Erm. Never mind.
2) MCI local and I go way back. I can't find the link right now, where the MCI operator informed me that a phone number in the same ratecenter was in a different LATA. She insisted that LATA was the right word to use, and that despite it being in the 340 Detroit LATA, hers showed a different LATA, but couldn't tell me which one.
Reason? They do something fucked up and prevent you from calling local ISP dialups without paying long distance fees, saying that the service is for residential voice calls only. Sorry, I don't think so.
Then, on top of that, they only charged me a few dollars less than ameritech, and were never available to answer questions, etc, etc.
But then, on top of that, I decided I'd give them a chance when I moved to move my line with me. They were completely unable to help me though the process, asking me to put in alot of footwork with Ameritech to have them move the line for me. I said no thanks, and to disconnect my line immediately.
4 months later, I was still being billed for it. They bitched and bitched, and eventually disconnected it for me, then told me I owed them $125 for the line, and I told them to fuck off, because I asked for disconnection a long damn time ago.
MCI is a bunch of pain in the ass scammers.
Besides, I placed 3 local calls last month, and 4 long distance calls (using my PIC carrier, Total Call International, 0.0039 a minute) on that line. That and I have a free vonage unlimited line (I refer a lot of people to them, and have months on end completely free) so I don't really use that line for much of anything.
The problem is that I guess covad can't get my SDSL line serviced without a working POTS line served by the ILEC being in the apartment, and I guess the ILEC tends to shut off all circuits into my apartment when I cut off my ILEC service, including the covad SDSL circuit. That's what my ISP tells me, and they have no vested interest in my maintaining an ILEC circuit, so I'd be inclined to believe them. Especially since signing up for my SDSL required me to type in an ILEC voice line in the signup form to continue, despite having no real need for one to begin with. Ugh. I really hate stuff imposed on me because of non-technical requirements. Fuckers...
3) Bleh, I expend effort all the time. :-)
So want to identify yourself? I'm curious who I'm talking to.