EastTexFrank
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50 years !!!!!! ... that is great !!!!! Congratulations.
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Junkman
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50 years..... that is a TBN record from what I can remember... I don't believe that there are many others that can claim 50 years of being married, even if they count the first and second wives!!! Congradulations.... I would like to be married for 50 years, but I don't believe that I will live that long. Either she will kill me first or I will die of old age.....
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( </font><font color="blueclass=small">( I'd have them remove your PIC. That is not LD blocking, but rather removing a selection of a default LD carrier. I did it at my home just to save the $10 a month LD charges. )</font>
I'm not sure I understand this, R0GuE. We don't pay for any of the long distance "calling plans" so of course if we made a long distance call from the home phone, the per minute rate would be pretty high. So I'm not sure what we could do to reduce the bill. )</font>
If you can pick up the phone and dial an LD #, you have selected a carrier. If you did not dial and LD for a month, you would still get a bill for the LD carrier of some flat rate, typically $10ish. If you remove the PIC, you don't pay that. BUT - You cannot dial LD. Instead, you need to dial an 800 # of your calling card, dial the PIN, then dial the # you are wanting to reach.
I'm not sure I understand this, R0GuE. We don't pay for any of the long distance "calling plans" so of course if we made a long distance call from the home phone, the per minute rate would be pretty high. So I'm not sure what we could do to reduce the bill. )</font>
If you can pick up the phone and dial an LD #, you have selected a carrier. If you did not dial and LD for a month, you would still get a bill for the LD carrier of some flat rate, typically $10ish. If you remove the PIC, you don't pay that. BUT - You cannot dial LD. Instead, you need to dial an 800 # of your calling card, dial the PIN, then dial the # you are wanting to reach.
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<font color="blue"> I don't believe that there are many others that can claim 50 years of being married, even if they count the first and second wives!!! </font>
A co-worker of mine was very excited recently because he realized that the length of his fourth marriage had just exceded the first three put together! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
A co-worker of mine was very excited recently because he realized that the length of his fourth marriage had just exceded the first three put together! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
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OK, I thought that might be what you were talking about and I'm guessing that's the $7.00 charge (plus tax, of course) on my bill every month that's labelled "Interstate non-primary access". Telephone bills are absolutely amazing to me. My "local package" is $25.95, plus that $7.00 mentioned above, a "Texas Universal Service" charge of $1.23, and then seven more separately listed charges, all under $1, but the final bill, without any long distance calls, is $41.05. And yes, I did just select Verizon as my long distance carrier since that's my regular phone company, but then we never use the long distance. So maybe we could be saving that $7.00 plus per month. Is that right?
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For a long time, we had NO long distance carrier selected at all, and we saved on all of the stupid fees they charge for the privledge just in case you may use long distance at some point in the future. We used only the 10-10-XXX numbers for all our long distance.
That worked for a while, until they got wise and starting taxing the 10-10-XXX numbers! /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
That worked for a while, until they got wise and starting taxing the 10-10-XXX numbers! /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( OK, I thought that might be what you were talking about and I'm guessing that's the $7.00 charge (plus tax, of course) on my bill every month that's labelled "Interstate non-primary access". Telephone bills are absolutely amazing to me. My "local package" is $25.95, plus that $7.00 mentioned above, a "Texas Universal Service" charge of $1.23, and then seven more separately listed charges, all under $1, but the final bill, without any long distance calls, is $41.05. And yes, I did just select Verizon as my long distance carrier since that's my regular phone company, but then we never use the long distance. So maybe we could be saving that $7.00 plus per month. Is that right? )</font>
Yep! You are paying $7 a month plus whatever cents per minute, to dial LD. I pay NO flat fee, (using my Target calling card, which always seems to be on-sale). I get 3 cents a minute. Altimatly I save well over the $10 flat fee (with taxes). Hundreds a year total. I found lots of little ways to save money when we started having children and my wife became a stay at home mom.
Yep! You are paying $7 a month plus whatever cents per minute, to dial LD. I pay NO flat fee, (using my Target calling card, which always seems to be on-sale). I get 3 cents a minute. Altimatly I save well over the $10 flat fee (with taxes). Hundreds a year total. I found lots of little ways to save money when we started having children and my wife became a stay at home mom.
dlabrie
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I dropped AT&T 2 years ago and signed up on to OPEX there is no monthly fee. LD cost 3.5 cents/ minute as long as you have a $20 balance on your account. There are no prefix #s to dial. I put $50 on my account when I opened it and have still not gotten down to the $20mark. Each month, I get an E-bill to show my balance.
A few weeks after I started with OPEX, AT&T called with a similar offer, I asked them where they had been with that offer for the last 20 years! I have been very happy with OPEX.
A few weeks after I started with OPEX, AT&T called with a similar offer, I asked them where they had been with that offer for the last 20 years! I have been very happy with OPEX.
