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   Simon,   
      
   SG>Sounds like pretty terrible service. You would think with plenty of competit   
   SG>such poor service would be a thing of the past. Maybe you moving on will hel   
   SG>them review their customer service methods.   
      
     I understand I'm NOT the ONLY one they've done this to.   
      
   SG>Sounds pretty good. I had half a gig of cell phone data for the longest time   
   SG>probably should have been paying a lot less.   
      
     I'm lucky if I use 5 gigs a month. The main detractor is that the   
   battery runs down so fast, then it takes like 3 hours to charge it back   
   up. So, I don't have any games on my phone.   
      
   SG>This is a worry really, as may scupper my dial-up dreams before they have   
   SG>begun. I haven't noticed any major issues here in the UK however, but I dare   
   SG>say digitial migration and VoIP is being rolled out at a snail's pace. I kno   
   SG>we have much less fast broadband coverage than many other European countries   
   SG>If this does become an issue, I wonder if cell phone modems (cdcadm protocol   
   SG>think) might provide another route? With a cheap sim with unlimited calls in   
   SG>cell phone USB modem, I could potentially add multiple dial-up lines for not   
   SG>very much at all.   
      
     I had thought of having a deal, if nothing else, as a backup for 911,   
   when the cell towers went down...as they invariably do when bad weather   
   affects the area. But, I can't see paying over $75 a month for a vanilla   
   phone line. So, to offset the economic loss by people abandoning their   
   landlines for much more inexpensive cellphones, they raise the landline   
   rates to compensate. It's like they're wanting to kill the landline   
   industry altogether (the analog is going to digital), so they don't have   
   to mess with it anymore.   
      
   Daryl   
      
      
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