AA>Hello Daryl!

Hi, August...

AA>That's a *very* nice package.  The closest I can get is $40 for 5GB until
AA>it gets throttled down - with luckymobile.ca.

  It's the best cellphone package I've ever had (StraightTalk from
Wal-Mart). I don't do that much texting or surfing (except for weather
data), and I save the phone for calls. Besides, the battery runs down
too darn quick!!

  I've been with Sprint, Cingular, and AT&T, before I got with Straight
Talk. Every so often, I build up enough points, where I get a month of
usage on my plan, free of charge.

  Sprint DID ME DIRTY years ago. When I got laid off from my job with
the State Of Arkansas (budgetary restrictions killed it), I told them I
could either pay the last months bill OR the termination fee, but NOT
both. I talked to one of the people at the local center, and even at the
Customer Support Center, who agreed to my proposal.

  Not 2 weeks later, I got a nasty letter from them, demanding I pay
what I hadn't. Angrily, I went in there, and raised hell at the office,
teling them I would NEVER use them again, and would tell everyone else
to avoid them.

  The only good thing about them was their classic commercial, where the
guy was using a "cheapie cell service" and wanted "a hundred oxen". The
line was so noisy, they thought he meant "a hundred dachshund" (can you
say weiner dog stampede?? ).

AA>Is that what they call a "dry loop" line?   Here, a dry loop has to be
AA>specifically ordered, otherwise a new phone line is a real POTS line.

  I don't know...maybe someone else can answer that. But, after the way
AT&T treated my late Mom and myself years ago (hanging up on me on a
call), a year and a half before she died, I *CANCELLED ALL* the service
she had...UVerse, Internet, Cell, EVERYTHING...and told them I would
*NEVER* be back with them.

  I get MagicJack for Voice Mail for $45 a year, with tax...and the
idiots at AT&T for a vanilla dial-up line want more than that per
month!!

  That's like the local newspaper printing only on Sunday, with the
e-Edition otherwise, but to get the e-Edition, you have to have a
special iPad, available ONLY for a subscription with $8 per printed copy
(to cover the iPad cost), which is $32 to $40 a month (4 or 5 Sundays).
I get The Miami Herald in south Florida (my old stomping grounds)
e-Edition, for $50 a year.

  Needless to say, it's obvious which option I'm going with. I'm a
frugal cheapskate, but I think these idiots believe I'm a dumb @$$.

AA>Even 33.6 would seem like a crawl.  You are best to put the idea of a bbs
AA>via dial-up out of your mind.  ;)

  That's what I figured...telnet, FTP, and web, are the way to go now.
If folks don't get on the technology train at the depot, they're going
to be left in the dust.

Daryl


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