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Goodbye AT&T landline phone – hello OOMA

29 Dec

Woodcut Image of an old style wall phone

Drop AT&T landline – save $70.00 per month

I just dropped the (mostly) useless AT&T landline – between cell phones and internet phones paying AT&T $70.00 per month for a phone line made no sense – there wasn’t even a good way to reduce the charges since living on Long Island AT&T did not classify New York (Queens, Manhattan etc) as long distance nor local it becomes ‘regional’ and regional service in AT&T’s eyes is much more expensive than either long distance or local service -or so AT&T would have you believe as they raise your otherwise discounted phone bill by $30.00 a month or more.

Drop Cablevision VOIP – not such a bargain after all

Having just dropped the Cablevision VOIP business line (along with their internet service) I was in the market for something better and after some research, the OOMA pitch to ‘own’ your dial tone and banish phone bills forever, was too good to pass up.
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Cablevision triple play expired

10 Dec

Cablevision convinced me about two years ago to add on some services with their triple play promotion. I had Cablevision internet for about $60.00 a month and DirectTV (Satellite). When I bought an HDTV I would have had to install another satellite dish and another (two) receivers plus some wiring changes. Cablevision said that I could add family cable plus all the STARZ movie channels plus a digital phone line for about $100 a month (actually came to about $115.00 with fees plus their DVR cable-box) – so I dropped satellite and went with Cablevision.

Fast forward – the triple play expired and now the cable bill was jumping to at least $185.00 a month and while I never got a straight answer from the sales reps it looked like it was probably going to top $200.00 a month for the same service that I had been getting. Time to unplug the cable. Read the rest of this entry »