IDT wants to charge me a dollar to send me a bill

Yhe name of the company is IDioT? What do they peddle so I can avoid them, too. >G<

Joe

I left that out. They are a long distance phone service. A while back they wanted me to pay 4 bucks just for the service. I complained and they waved that charge too.

I would love to get my statements by email, but I am not interested in having to log into a web page just to view my statement.

Email is secure enough for a utility bill.

My gas and electric company won&#39;t send email bills.

The gas/electric company just emails me to say to go to their website. I think someone gave them the strange idea that I would be embarrassed if someone read my email and found out I use gas and electricity.

I&#39;d like to know the reason myself.

The utility companies will send you an email telling you that your new bill is ready to view online, but wont just send you an email of the bill.

However, if you forget your password information the same group of geniuses will send your username and password to your email address.

I think the most likely answer is that emailing your bill would be more work for the IT department.

Blow &#39;em off. We use Vonage (other services are available) and have two VoIP lines. For 19.95/month we get:

Another telephone number, All the goodies (voice-mail, caller-id, call-waiting, forwarding, yak-yak-yak) All the long-distance to most anywhere that we can eat.

$19.95 per month. Period. No 911 fee, no fuel-surcharge, no universal access fee, no Al Gore tax, no sales tax. Zip.

For our company, we diligently sought the cheapest long-distance rates. In spite of that, our LD bill was over $200/month. All that went away with VoIP.

Here&#39;s a suggestion: Visit Best Buy, Sams, or the Vonage web site and pick up their kit - $19.95. Try the thing for a month. If you don&#39;t like it, cancel. It&#39;s a $20 gamble, but if it DOES work, you can tell your current provider to wrap their lips around a tailpipe.

Today&#39;s dumb question. Can you link Vonage in through your existing phone jacks? I would like to be able to just keep the phones where they are. Also, I do some away from home consulting for up to a couple months at a time. Can I bring Vonage along, use my laptop, and still be able to use another phone (I am a writer and sometimes need to be able to record the conversations and this is easier for me to do using a cordless phone and a Radio Shack phone recording control)?

In article , Terry wrote: assword to your email address.

Probably more work for accouting to pay for the postage, paper, etc.

My long distance charges are less than 5 bucks per month.

I have a friend that just went to VoIP and he doesn&#39;t like it. I am not ready to give it a try yet.

My Internet has weekly downtime.

My health is not the greatest. I don&#39;t foresee a 911 call in the near future, but I would like to be able to make one if I need to.

You can make the 911 calls. You just have to remember to tell the program what your address is and then it contacts the correct emergency center. Everybody was hyperventilating over what happens if someone is using VOIP from (say) a hotel room and forgot to change the preferences.

That was my point.

They want to charge me for a paper bill so I will use the online bill pay. I don&#39;t need to use the online bill pay. I have been using direct draft for many years now.

The most convenient way for me to get the bill is email. I don&#39;t want to have to log in with a username/password to their web page each month. Although, now that I am using Firefox, it might not be as much of a problem because Firefox remembers your log in information. (I don&#39;t know what mine is yet)

Just send me an email statement and we can both be happy.

How about this one?

That little gadget looks pretty interesting. My long distance runs around 3 bucks a month so I don&#39;t need it, but for anyone that does do long distance it would be a low risk gamble.

You could get one of those phones that need one phone line and come with 3 extensions and use it from 4 places in the house without any re wiring.

No incoming number I guess though?

I have one of those cordless phones. It came with 3 handsets, but can be expanded to as many as 10 (I don&#39;t need THAT many).

I think you do get an incoming number with that device. Like any VoIP, you get to choose among many area codes.

I&#39;m considering trying the thing. The Amount they&#39;re changing is a lot less than the $65/month the local phone company changes for unlimited long distance (that&#39;s $45 plus all the fees).