[somewhat off-topic] Comcast and Verizon

[ehorne-zY4eFNvK5D9If6P1QZMOBw at public.gmane.org (Bill Horne)]

Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:56:02AM -0400, R. Luoma wrote:
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>> finally, the phone-y questions:
>> I would like to get a land-line telephone (I realize that some of you gentle readers use wireless phones).  Again, both V and C offer these options.  Do people have experience with these land-line phones?  What about long-distance calls?
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> I'm pretty sure it's very hard to order phone service from VZ
> and Comcast without getting an all-you-can-talk local and
> continental US LD plan included. International is likely to be
> of average cost, but if you're really concerned, setting up
> Asterisk and going minute-by-minute with Teliax or VoipJet or
> someone like that is reasonably easy and quite cheap.
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Oh, please, _please_ tell me more!

My kid just ran up a $100+ LD bill, and I've had to have charge 
restrictions placed on my line to prevent a recurrence, but my wife 
doesn't like dialing 800 numbers and having to enter access codes, so if 
there's a "transparent" solution, I'm all ears.

Bill

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