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Sqwertz[_53_]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 13:49:10 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

> On Friday, April 16, 2021 at 9:32:49 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>>
>> On 4/16/2021 10:25 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
>>> On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 08:21:34 -0400, Gary wrote:
>>>
>> Landline phone $45 PLUS $25 internet dialup access.
>> The internet access ended 5 months ago.
>> Free neighborhood wifi for now but it's not "secure."
>>
> I didn't know any companies still offered dial-up access.
> But with the $45 per month wired phone, don't you also
> get long distance included in that price?

If anybody is still charging for long distance, they need to be
dumped. All companies are offering the same VoIP which includes
unlimited local and long distance for $10/mo or less(*). The only
thing that might be extra is any NEW copper phone lines which are
already hooked up in Gary's place.

He's been getting ripped off for an extra $35/mo x 15+ years. It
costs less to transmit 30 minutes of long distance phone
conversation than it does to stream your local 6:PM newscast over
your Internet connection (and both of those costs are $0). They use
the same conduits, except for Gary's copper phone lines the first
600 yards - which is already installed and working. Then it just
connects to the same SS7 networks as any other cell phone, VoIP, or
landline and whoosh! - off it goes at the same $0 price. The $10
pays for infrastructure only, and Gary's physical infrastructure is
literally 50-60 years old. That $80 worth of copper lines have more
than paid off in that time, and have made for $billions of profits.
You should at most only be paying $2 just for the "privilege" of
just billing you for that $2 and the maintenance of the copper
infrastructure.

But seeing as how it's hurricane territory, $3 would be fair enough.

-sw