Comments on: Digital? Not for me!

By: Imaginary Sunshine » An atypical Friday morning

Imaginary Sunshine » An atypical Friday morning — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:26:05 +0000

[…] try your call again.” I hate the digital phone company that we’re with. (Read my post here to see how much I hate them and the company is called iTalkBB – good choice to avoid!). See, if I […]

By: Jenna

Jenna — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:56:51 +0000

We have a lan line. No issues except our service sucks. No long distance only voice mail and local calls

$30 for the lan line. I don’t think it’s worth it

By: Georgina

Georgina — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:46:18 +0000

Hurk! How dodgy. I’ve never heard of anyone’s experiences with a digital phone, or how good/bad they are. Having another line.. for anything, is annoying. We had one for our fax machine and it caused us hell. People kept sending faxes to the wrong one.. things like that. And it ended up getting really expensive when we hardly used our fax machine. So in the end we used the same number. It’s still crap because after 7 rings, or when we can’t pick up the phone quick enough, the person gets directed to the fax machine and gets this annoying sound. Oh well..

All those problems with the digital sound awful. And it doesn’t sound very worth it either. My parents take advantage of promotions. And we got sucked into this stupid contract for our internet (only 11 months left.. *faint*).. and the internet is sucky. Our provider was voted by a magazine as best service.. BULL.

1. What kind of phone company do you use?
Regular landline
2. What kind of issues have you had with it?
NA
3. How much does your family pay (per month) for all the phone services used?
Er.. not sure. There’s $50 for the internet.. and probably another $20 for mobile phones and landline calls? And that doesn’t count my mum spending money for overseas phone cards..

By: Dane

Dane — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:38:58 +0000

1. I think it’s a regular landline…? o_O
2. N/A 😀
3. I don’t know about our home phone since we rarely use it now. But altogether, our cell phone bill is usually a little over $230.

By: nichole

nichole — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:18:11 +0000

We don’t have phone service at home anymore. it was 30 bucks a month for BASIC phone. nothing included. the only reason we really had it is because i had dial up internet. so i was paying 40 bucks a month for basic internet! so we got verizon broadband for 20 bucks more. i can take it anywhere and its faster 🙂 david has a pay as you go cell, and my mom pays for mine. so we don’t really need a home phone

By: Caity

Caity — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:06:32 +0000

That’s interesting. I’d definitely consider a digital phone line at some point. When we first start out, we’ll probably only have cellular phones and use Skype to talk over the internet to people overseas. It’s definitely something to think about in the future, especially if your internet is stable.

I live with my parents currently and only have my own celluar phone, but I’ll answer for their phone upstairs.
1. Cable phones. It’s one of those packages that has TV, internet, and phone all in one and they’re all connected to the modem and cable.
2. Our internet is very stable and we are happy with it. We’ve lost our phone about twice in 3 years.
3. TV, internet, and phone are all $29.95 per month as long as we have all 3 in the same contract. We have super fast internet, hundreds of channels with on demand TV, and good phone service.

By: Cody

Cody — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:52:13 +0000

We have a landline we’re thinking of getting rid of to save money, and looked into digital. (T-Mobile, to be exact.) I was concerned about all the things you just mentioned… bad connecting, slow internet, and especially not having a phone during a power outage. Maybe they’ll improve it… but, right now it just seems so inconvenient.

By: Aimee

Aimee — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:09:12 +0000

I don’t have a digital phone, I don’t think they do those over here so much. But we’re with Virgin and it costs us £20 a month for phone and broadband (including free evening and weekend calls). Its very very cheap, and overall its been fine.. apart from the period of time where you’d pick up the phone.. call someone (although it happened if someone called you too) and you’d get a second like dial tone.. you’d be speaking to the person for about 30 secs with no problem.. and then you’d suddenly hear sounds like someone was pressing numbers.. then it would sound like it was dialing.. and then you’d jump away from the phone because it let a really high pitched screech go off in your ear.. Now I don’t get any signal on my mobile in our flat so it was virtually impossible to call Virgin to sort it.. plus the woman in india couldn’t understand what I was on about.. until she called the home phone and got the screeching. They never came and sorted it, insisting it was the actual phone (creating a second line all by itself…) and it fixed itself after a while..

So regular landlines can be a pain the bum too.