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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Verizon / February 2006Cutting the Cord
Hi- I am a TV producer in Connecticut looking for people who use their mobile phone as their sole phone... instead of having a landline in addition to their mobile phone. If anyone knows of someone in Connecticut who's doing this, please drop me a line at josh.fialkoff@nbcuni.com. Thanks! -Josh > Hi- > > I am a TV producer in Connecticut looking for people who use their > mobile phone as their sole phone... instead of having a landline in > addition to their mobile phone. No offense, but isn't this kinda old news? I "cut the cord" back '99. Of course recent events forced me to get DSL for broadband and now I have a landline, only I have it on the lowest billing tier (doesn't even have "touch tone" dialing much less any other features) and I don't use it for anything.  SignatureE-mail fudged to thwart spammers. Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply. I have the same issue. A better TV report would be to expose how phone companies rip customers off by forcing them to use home phone service even if they only want DSL. > > Hi- > > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > have "touch tone" dialing much less any other features) and I don't use > it for anything. >I have the same issue. > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> have "touch tone" dialing much less any other features) and I don't use >> it for anything. Here in Philadelphia, Verizon recently began selling "Naked DSL." No local POTS line required. Have you checked to see if your local telco has recently changed its tariff on this? > Here in Philadelphia, Verizon recently began selling "Naked DSL." No > local POTS line required. That would be AWESOME. -Dave >> Here in Philadelphia, Verizon recently began selling "Naked DSL." No >> local POTS line required. > > That would be AWESOME. -Dave Who is your local telco? >> Here in Philadelphia, Verizon recently began selling "Naked DSL." No >> local POTS line required. > > That would be AWESOME. -Dave It sounds awesome until you find out the price. More than regular DSL plus the lowest cost land line service. My daughter did the same thing in Boston suburbs this January. Verizon DSL in her apartment w/o land line. Cost is $19.95/month for DSL 768k down /128k up. They assign a local number but it has no phone. I did test it and there is a dial tone, but didn't try to dial. Her contact number with Verizon uses the Wash DC area code on her cell phone. Neither of my two kids have had a land line since 2000. Same cell phone numbers and between them they've lived in DC, Arlington VA, Vienna VA, Redondo Beach CA, Bristol RI, Watertown MA. Another point - both of them have people with "open" WiFi routers that they can connect with. One takes advantage of the free internet. The other subscribes to DSL and I've locked down the WiFi on her router pretty tight so she doesn't share the bandwidth unknowingly. >>I have the same issue. >> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > Have you checked to see if your local telco has recently changed its > tariff on this? |
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