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   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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