i opened my alltel bill last night. $315 and change.
wtf?!
apparently i went about 400 minutes over my 1,000 minute limit. i’ve never broken 600-700. i don’t recall changing my calling patterns that dramatically, but apparently i have.
i’ll have to sit down with a calculator.
I too went over last month, but only a whopping 5 minutes for ~$2 in overages. I think it’s time to start spreading the VoIP love 🙂
check your billing cycle length. i know verizon likes to play games by changing the length of the cycle.
voip is great if you’re sitting down at a desk. i’m too mobile, and wifi is only in so many places.
> voip is great if you’re sitting down at a desk.
True. I’m not suggesting that it become a complete replacement. I will probably be keeping my cell phone for many years to come. I’m just saying that it would make an excellent supplement. Of course, now you have many different phone numbers, but some creative call routing can take care of that 🙂
probably easiest to give everyone your voip number then have that forward to your cell when you walk away from desk
problem there is you have to remember to turn it on/off.
i actually have the forwarding setup on my work desk phones, but i always forget to turn on/off so i just leave it on all the time. sorta nullifies even having a desk phone.
Many systems now will let you ring both at the same time. Whichever station picks it up first wins. I know the phone system at $WORK offers this.
— Kevin
i’m actually porting my current cell # to my voip provider. i’m going to have it ring home and cell both. i just need to disable voicemail with my cell provider so that it doesn’t pick up before the asterisk vm does.
i want to say something geeky and intelligent too.
I have some cans and string… just be sure you pull the string tight or it won’t work.
cell phone bill this month – 56 pages…they now mail it in an 8-1/2 x 11 envelope…
I do like all the competition on cell phones, T-Mobile keeps up their minutes for the same money…we’ve gone from 800 minutes to 1000 minutes in 18 months for no extra money plus they’ve now dropped their family plan line 2 bucks a month…