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Re: Cost of POTS w/o Long Distance

BobT (fake@invalid.net)
Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:33:41 GMT

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 15:08:04 -0500, Bob Alan <t5@soalex.us> wrote:

> Hello,

> I recently switched to VOIP but kept my old POTS line for back-up.

> I use the VOIP for all my LD calls. Am I correct that even though I'm
> not using my 3rd party LD provider that I had with my POTS service
> that I'm still paying some form of a month connection fee to the POTS
> provider?

Many (most?) LD providers do not have a recurring periodic minimum fee
for their most basic service, although they often do for more advanced
types of service. You can contact your local ILEC and remove any LD
preferred carrier arrangement, if you wish. This should prevent any
recurring fee, if there was one in the first place, but the
disadvantage is that if a LD call should, even by accident, be placed
from your phone, you may find yourself assigned to a random carrier
for that call, and this carrier will bill you at an unbelievably high
per minute rate.

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