Telephone Blog May Archive

Cell Phones Replacing Land Lines, and You're Next

By Brian White at 05/28/07 09:55

Imagine, if you will, a world in which you're not tethered to the horrible constraints of your locally monopolized telephone provider. Unlike other industries who lobbied hard to keep taxes in check, these companies have invented whole new categories of laurels upon which to rest while service levels fell, costs escalated, and the appearance of equity and competition never even bothered to surface.

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Lightning Storms and Telephones and the Fear of Death

There are myths and legends a'plenty that caution you against using the telephone in a lightning storm. They say lighting will strike, and that you'll be electrocuted for being on the telephone when it happens, which is totally ridiculous, I assure you.

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Go Vonage and Don't Go Back

Vonage has been horribly unscrupulous when it comes to dealing with publishers, but they've earned all kinds of accolades with consumers. Cheap, effective, pretty consistent, and did I already mention cheap?

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