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   Hello Shawn!   
      
    AA>> But.. I could sorta stick it to them by converting the   
    AA>> POTS to a dry-loop (I think that's free now - it used to   
    AA>> be $10/mo), and just use cell for biz.   
      
    SH> That's why my friend went all cell.  He couldn't stand the   
    SH> idea of paying that much more for a POTS line that had   
    SH> less features then his home phone.   
      
   15 years for your friend is a lot of $80/mo x 12months saved     
   (or not wasted!)   
      
   Considering that the internet would rarely go down when there     
   is an outtage, and the internet itself is rarely a problem with     
   my current ISP, perhaps a fallback POTS line at the shop is not     
   as critical.   
      
   I'm not paying anything extra for the basic $80/mo biz line     
   anyway. At one time Bell was saying that the biz qualification     
   entitled me to a modest listing in the Yellow Pages, but they     
   discontinued that eventually many years ago and only listed     
   biznesses that paid extra for a Yellow Pages listing.  Now..     
   who even uses the darn paper version of the YP?   
      
   Also, Bell has done absolutely nothing for its biz customers     
   during the last 18 months of covid/lockdowns. When I've missed     
   paying the bill on the due date by a couple of days, I would     
   still get slapped with a charge/fee.  The least they could do     
   was reduce the monthly rate to correlate with less volume of     
   calls going in and out.  Something.   
      
   Your offer sounds sweet. Maybe if I have that Q5 in front of me     
   it will remind me how stupid I am to continue with $80/mo with     
   a biz-rated POTS line.   At this point, $80/mo x 12 sounds like     
   a foolish payout, indeed.   
      
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