Can I remove my long distance service?

[blahsome]

I have a great calling card and would like to remove my long distance service. I was told years ago there would be a surcharge from my local telephone company if I don't have a long distance provider. Is that true?

 

[Viper GTS]

I have no long distance service on my land line.

I have no clue whether or not I pay a surcharge, I just pay the bill every month.

Viper GTS

 

[Freejack2]

For Verizon, the answer is yes. I forget exactly how much but I think it was a dollar or two.

Course Verizon sucks, I pay half as much now for vonage and get tons more features.

 

[rh71]

Interesting question. I signed up with Verizon (new house) 2 months ago and it was an option NOT to get long distance. I don't know if I'm actually paying a surcharge because of it, though I doubt it. Hopefully nobody can prove me wrong... or I'd be pissed.

 

[Thegonagle]

There's no surcharge that I can see with Qwest. Of course, I really don't get how a "$14.95 local service" bill becomes $23.50 by the time you're reading the bottom line, so maybe there is a charge.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: Garfang
There's no surcharge that I can see with Qwest. Of course, I really don't get how a "$14.95 local service" bill becomes $23.50 by the time you're reading the bottom line, so maybe there is a charge.

Qwest has a surcharge 😉 I didn't have long distance on my line forever since i had cell phones to make those calls on. There is a "fee" for having long distance "blocked"

CkG

 

[RossMAN]

Yes you can but there may be an extra surcharge.

I have AT&T long distance only because I have a plan with $0 monthly fee (so I can avoid Qwest's no long distance surcharge). Also it helps that AT&T PAID ME $100 FOR FREE to switch to them 😀

If ever do need to make a long distance call, I use either my cell phone or BigZoo (for international calls mostly).

 

[Thegonagle]

Wow! Is that deal (or similar) still alive? I'll sign up for AT&T, or anyone, as long as the monthly fee is zero. They can charge $.25 a minute for all I care, I'd only use it, oh, say, never!

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Garfang
Wow! Is that deal (or similar) still alive? I'll sign up for AT&T, or anyone, as long as the monthly fee is zero. They can charge $.25 a minute for all I care, I'd only use it, oh, say, never!

Not that I'm aware of, it was pretty $#@! Hot if you ask me.

FREE $75 MasterCard which I turned into cold hard cash.
FREE $25 Amazon.com GC
$0 monthly fee to AT&T

Major w00tage!

 

[rudder]

Hell yeh, thats what I am doing. It costs $12 for a local line where I live. Once you add long distance access (not service, just access) it jumps up another $10. If it were not for me having to use a dial-up I would get rid of the phone completely.

 

[Thegonagle]

Yeah, that's too hot.

I'm still going to look into getting a zero monthly fee LD service on my line if it will lower my regular phone bill.

 

[Kevin]

Its all the FCC fees, state and local taxes, 911 service and I believe now there is a franchising fee...

 

[Ly2n]

Our local company will charge if you want long distance blocked, but does not charge anything if you opt for no long distance. Whats the difference? If you make a LD call without the block, a long distance carrier will pick up the call and charge you. With the block, no LD calls can be placed. If you don't place any LD calls on the line a LD block isn't needed.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: Freejack2
For Verizon, the answer is yes. I forget exactly how much but I think it was a dollar or two.

Course Verizon sucks, I pay half as much now for vonage and get tons more features.

vonage is 25.99 /month for the basic plan
i pay 15.99 for verizon
hows it cheaper? unless im not looking in the right place