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December 5, 2004

Telecom Bill Broken Down

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.

Posted by Glennf at December 5, 2004 9:51 AM

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