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Originally Posted by Ypsilanti Undead
If you have DSL, then all those Vonage savings are in long distance calls, right? I wanted to forgo a land phone line altogether, but DSL is much cheaper than cable modem in my area. And you can't get DSL without phone service.
So I just do all my long distance calling on the cel, since it costs no more than a local call.
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Actually, check with your phone company. Most have started rolling out what they call naked DSL.
As for my savings, Buffalo has some of the highest utility costs in the country, I belive our local phone bills are the most expensive (they dismiss it off as saying we have a larger local calling area than most parts of the country, but it's :BS
When I had DSL and Verizon local, my Bill was like $110 a month with very little long distance. At the time the DSL cost $35 plus taxes of that $110, meaning about $70 for local service, call waiting, voicemail, and of course, some of the highest taxes in the country (NYS SUCKS).
I attempted to drop Verizon local, and keep DSL, but the wouldn't let me, so I switched to cable at $42 a month, plus $27 a month (inc. taxes) for Vonage. A savings of about $40 a month. Naked DSL wasn't available at the time in my area, though it is now, but Verizon can go F themselves. The cable modem is twice as fast (if not more) and the $10-15 savings aint worth me giving them my business again.