Because of the flurry of interest, here's more detail on our family telecom bill and how it will be transformed.
Service | Current Charges | New Charges | Savings |
---|---|---|---|
Cingular National 1250 moving to FamilyTalk 850 Both include rollover minutes, unlimited Cingular mobile to mobile (46 million Cingular customers) |
79.99 (main) 29.99 (second) 27.60 (taxes, misc) |
59.99 (main) 9.99 (second) 18.00 (approx. tax, misc) no setup charge |
67.60 |
Home phone Includes voice mail, Caller ID |
33.74 | 33.74 | 0.00 |
Home long-distance Via Opex at 5 cents a minute |
20.00 (average month) | 0 | 20.00 |
Vonage Moved from work to home, unlimited long distance |
27.24 | 27.24 | 0.00 |
Home business line for Lynn's work Includes voice mail |
65.00 | 5.25 (second line added to Vonage) | 59.75 |
Total | 283.56 | 154.21 | 129.35 |
This doesn't include incidental savings using SkypeOut for international calling and calling on the road. I'll be taking my noise-canceling USB headset when I travel so that I can use Skype instead of a cell phone when needing to make calls. Also, we'll think about SkypeIn (an inbound Skype-based phone number) when they add this capability in July 2005.