[antidote] Has anyone actually reviewed their phone bill lately?
- From: jim rogers <jimorogers@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: antidote@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 07:13:16 -0800 (PST)
As long as we're on the subject of cable rate
increases, it may be instructive to analyze our phone
bills. A year ago, my average phone bill -- including
long distance, USF, inside wiring, etc. -- was about
$35 a month. Today, it's $85 a month. Granted, I
agreed to a couple of "extras" like caller ID and
conferencing (which, by the way, cost the phone
company fractions of a penny to deliver). My cable
bill, on the other hand, went from $27 a month (basic
service) to $35 a month. I didn't much appreciate the
cable rate hike, but I absolutely hated the phone bill
increases. This is a dollars and cents issue for most
people. Yet, most people really don't study their
phone bill the way they do their cable bill. I don't
know why that is. It just is. I don't wish to sound
like a mouthpiece for the cable monopolies, but the
truth is that I use -- and get so much more from -- my
cable service than I do my home telephone. Of course,
I don't NEED the cable. I can always go back to using
the rabbit ears. But I do NEED the telephone. The
rabbit ears don't do a thing for me in that
department.
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