Money Easy way to save some money = cancel your home phone but keep the # - Page 2

Ralphy Boy · 08-17-2010, 04:46 PM

and transfer it to a cell phone.

I'm sure some of you have done this and maybe there has been a thread on it before but, for those who don't know, I figured I'd pass this along. Posting it here since most people only go to the Lounge.

A friend of mine used to work for AT&T and I told him I was thinking of getting rid of our home phone and just getting another mobile, so he suggested I call AT&T and have our old home number "ported" to the new mobile phone. Basically you get to keep your old number and don't have to worry about changing your phone number of record with anyone.

Cost of the extra cell phone is $10 a month.
Our old home phone was $46.05 a month with all the features (caller ID, call waiting, long distance) and taxes.

Since a mobile phone has caller ID and voicemail built in, I didn't really lose anything other than the ability to have 3 or 4 different phones throughout the house.

Obviously if you use your home phone a lot then you might not want to do this.

Incidentally while I was talking to the customer service rep I told him I was thinking about cancelling my $33 a month DSL too and he said they are running a special on it for $14.95 a month for the next 12 months.

My total monthly savings should be $54 or about $650 over the next year.

Hopefully a few of you can save some green by doing the same thing.

Oh and your welcome.

**DaFace** · 08-17-2010, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Bwana

The piece of crap Direct TV makes you have, in order to get NFL Sunday ticket. Freaken Dickweeds.

False. Maybe they used to, but I don't have a landline and NFLST works just fine.

**Bwana** · 08-17-2010, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by DaFace

False. Maybe they used to, but I don't have a landline and NFLST works just fine.

That's not what the dickweeds told me about 3 weeks ago. It seems it's time for another phone call.

**Bane** · 08-17-2010, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Bwana

The piece of crap Direct TV makes you have, in order to get NFL Sunday ticket. Freaken Dickweeds.

Hmmm.I don't have Direct tv,but I also haven't had a "land line" in almost 10 years either.

**DaFace** · 08-17-2010, 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Bwana

That's not what the dickweeds told me about 3 weeks ago. It seems it's time for another phone call.

Not entirely sure why they say it's required, but based on this thread...

http://forums.directv.com/pe/action/...ostID=10577985

...it seems clear that you can disconnect the land line and have no repercussions whatsoever.

vailpass · 08-17-2010, 07:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bwana

The piece of crap Direct TV makes you have, in order to get NFL Sunday ticket. Freaken Dickweeds.

I get the ticket from DirecTV every year, never had a land line hooked up.

**Bwana** · 08-17-2010, 07:20 PM

Ok, let me ask you boys this, perhaps I'm thinking about needing it for pay per view movies and ordering MMA with direct TV? I was jawing about all of that crap with them and they claimed I needed it for something. Any thoughts on that cluster?

Goldmember · 08-17-2010, 07:21 PM

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**DaFace** · 08-17-2010, 07:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bwana

Ok, let me ask you boys this, perhaps I'm thinking about needing it for pay per view movies and ordering MMA with direct TV? I was jawing about all of that crap with them and they claimed I needed it for something. Any thoughts on that cluster?

That's (mostly) true. If you happen to have an easy way to connect it to your internet connection, that can serve as an alternative to a phone line. If you don't have either, though, you'd have to call their PPV number to manually order every time you do any kind of PPV event.

Param · 08-17-2010, 07:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jAZ

If only Google Voice had in-bound portability.

Your cell?

**rockymtnchief** · 08-17-2010, 07:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bwana

Ok, let me ask you boys this, perhaps I'm thinking about needing it for par per view movies and ordering MMA with direct TV? I was jawing about all of that crap with them and they claimed I needed it for something. Any thoughts on that cluster?

I've never plugged mine in and ordered PPV online. Although, I just have the very basic recievers.

**Saulbadguy** · 08-17-2010, 07:41 PM

Yeah, only old farts still have a home phone.

Deberg_1990 · 08-17-2010, 07:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bwana

The piece of crap Direct TV makes you have, in order to get NFL Sunday ticket. Freaken Dickweeds.

Wow..they still do this??

**Bwana** · 08-17-2010, 07:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Wow..they still do this??

From what a few others have posted, you can get around that, but ordering PPV seems to be the foot that kicks one in the nads without a land line. I need to figure out a way to ditch it, because it's useless.

Ralphy Boy · 08-17-2010, 07:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

We've mostly traded our money from a home phone, to the internet.

Don't know if your with AT&T but like I said when I called them I got them to lower my internet from $33 a month to $14.95.

Shag · 08-17-2010, 07:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jAZ

If only Google Voice had in-bound portability.

This. Would be so nice...

08-17-2010, 04:46 PM
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