What fax service does he use? I've searched for a fax service like that, but have never found one. Thanks, Eric On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:10 AM, AZ Pete wrote: > I have Cox for Internet, Phone and Cable. > > Several months ago I was getting irritated with the high cost of the land > line phone portion of my bill. What I did was to get a Google voice number, > which provided me with free long distance and voice mail (as well a many > other excellent features - all for free). I then dropped all the "bells & > whistles" and long distance service from my land line and simply have a > basic line w/Caller ID. The cost for this land line is $11.75 line fee + > $5.95 for caller ID. The rest is various taxes. Total land line = $28 > /month. > > If someone calls my land line directly (instead of my Google #), I have an > answering machine to handle that. > If you really want to get lean, drop your land line altogether and have > your Google voice number simply route to your calls to your cell phone. > > As far as fax service, there is absolutely no need to have a dedicated fax > line and machine these days. There are so many online services available for > so cheap that it doesn't pay to "host" it yourself. My brother receives > hundreds of faxes each month and he pays $2-3 per month flat rate. To send > a fax, he simply sends an email to the hosting service and they fax it > appropriately (although the need for sending faxes is getting exceedingly > rare). > > Hope this helps. > Peter > > > > joe@actionline.com wrote: > >> Are there any alternatives to Qwest for land-line telephone and DSL >> service? >> >> Qwest has just raised their rates and I think some of the charges are >> unreasonable, particularly for voice mail and the portion of the DSL >> service that goes to M$ (which is the most irritating since I don't use M$ >> for anything). >> >> For the land-line phone service, I pay $37.99/month which includes a >> second land-line and voice-mail for one line. But then they charge $6.20 >> for each of the two lines for "Federal Access Charge" (probably can't do >> anything about that). But for voice mail on the second line, they charge >> an additional $7.95/month plus $3.95 for an extension mailbox. That part >> seems excessive to me. Surely there must be some other good alternatives. >> >> The broadband charges show as $38.00 for Qwest Connect Platinum >> plus $16.99 for Qwest Connect PLTNM w MSFT, less "bundle savings" >> of $5.00/month and a promotional discount of $15.00/month. >> So $54.99 - $20.00 = $34.99/month. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >