Re: considering covad

[Kara Pritchard <kara@luci.org>]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, L. V. Lammert wrote:

> >It's not your phones that matter, it's your ISDN router.
> 
> The other gotcha I just realized is that if you are connecting a router to 
> the ISDN lines, you cannot get any features on the analog phones connected 
> INTO the router.
> 
> To use call waiting, caller ID, etc., you need an ISDN *phone*.

Not true.  Not True, NOT TRUE.  I have call waiting and caller ID on all 
my phones.  The phone sitting in front of me  is a Uniden PowerMax 5.8 GHz 
cordless that I bought from Sam's club.  I have a worn out Panasonic 
900MHz cordless phone w/ my voicemail system that has both caller ID and 
call waiting (though the button on that particular phone is shorted).  My 
fax machine is an FPC135, also from Panasonic that I bought from Best Buy.  
Guess what, caller ID, call waiting, and all the proper fax functionality.

> There's your line charges!

That's my line charge for 2 full circuits (2x2B).

> Sorry, that doesn't wash - you still have to pay for the ISDN lines! You're 
> paying $90 for them now, .. how are you going to cut that to $45? Switching 
> to the 20 hour plan for $45 isn't going to work. Even the 40 hour plan is 
> about $65/month. We use the ISDN cheapest service ($40/month) only because 
> it's the backup - never been up for more than a few minutes.

I'm paying $90 for TWO of them.  I have 4 lines in my house, Lee.  I can 
use one line for $45, and dial-up to APCI with unlimited access for 
$40/mo.  That's $95/mo for Line charges and internet account.  NO EXTRA 
FEES.


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