Deals for switching LONG DISTANCE PLANS...Add your deals to this thread!!!

[spec411]

I know the essential and MCI cash deals are over, but Lets post all the great deals CURRENTLY available for switching long distance providers...provide telephone #'s to apply for the programs if you have them!!

Heres a few switching deals that give airline mileage
Taken from www.mileageworkshop.com (they have the links to click)

MCI

1. American Airlines/MCI offer. 6,000 miles for long distance service.

2. Delta Airline/MCI offer. 6,000 miles for long distance service. Note: One reader informed us that calling 888-MCIDELTA provides an offer for 10,000 miles.

3. Hawaiian Airlines/MCI offer. 6,000 miles for long distance service.

4. Midwest Express/MCI offer. 6,000 miles for long distance service.

5. United Airlines/MCI offer. 6,000 miles for long distance service.

6. US Airways/MCI offer. 6,000 miles for long distance service.

7. Get 3 Southwest flight segment credits for new MCI long distance service when signing up online.

8. Earn 5,000 TWA miles (1,000 miles each month for 5 months) when you switch to MCI. Sign-up online and get an additional 1,000 miles for a total of 6,000 Aviators miles. This offer is better than the standard 5,000 miles offer listed below.

9. TWA/MCI offer. 5,000 miles for long distance service.

10. Sun Country Airlines: Switch to MCI to their 5 cent evenings and weekends 7 cent days $5.95/month program and after 90 days of MCI service, receive a voucher good for 1 free round trip anywhere Sun Country flies in the US. Call 800-754-0037 and ask for "Partners Promo".

11. America West has now joined with MCI to offer miles. Earn 3,000 bonus miles for signing up online.

12. Priority Club members can collect 7,500 bonus Priority Club points when switching to MCI. Call 800-243-7207 and mention bonus code Z75H.

SPRINT

13. Sign up for Sprint PCS digital wireless service and receive up to 5,000 Northwest miles. First 2,500 mile bonus will be deposited in your WorldPerks account up to 12 weeks after Sprint PCS Service has been activated. Second 2,500 mile bonus will be deposited in your WorldPerks account up to 12 weeks after sixth Sprint PCS invoice. You'll receive 5,000 Mileage Plan miles after your first Sprint long distance invoice, and another 2,500 Mileage Plan miles after your sixth invoice. Get 500 additional bonus miles (awarded after your sixth invoice) if you sign up online.

14. Earn DOUBLE Northwest WorldPerks miles for every dollar (10 miles per dollar spent instead of the usual 5 miles) with Sprint Nickel Nights. Plus earn 7,500 Bonus Miles just for signing up.

15. Earn 10,000 Virgin Freeway miles with new Sprint service and a 2,500 mile bonus after one year of service.

AT&T.

16. AT&T has added Continental as a partner. You'll earn 2,000 miles by simply switching to AT&T Residential long distance service and 1,000 miles by signing up for AT&T online billing. Also, earn 5 OnePass miles for every long-distance dollar spent.

17. Switch to AT&T and earn 3,000 Hilton HHonors points. Call AT&T at 800-288-2662, extension 58390 to sign up for the AT&T point program. You'll earn 3,000 bonus points for signing up and four points for every dollar spent afterwards. Remember, you can exchange Hilton points into frequent flyer miles with a number of airline programs.

18. Marriott Rewards gives a 5000 Point Signup Bonus and 5 points per each dollar spent on long distance service.

19. Starwood Preferred Guest members will receive 1000 points for signing up and 1 point for each dollar spent. To switch to AT&T, or to start earning Starpoints for current AT&T service, call 800-288-2662 ext. 66154. Available in the U.S. only.

20. Primus Canada replaces AT&T as the residential long-distance provider in Canada and as Air Canada's telephone partner as well. New Primus subscribers will receive 2,000 bonus miles when signing up for service, another 1,000 miles after paying their first invoice and an additional 2,000 miles in February 2000. This is in addition to the five miles they'll earn for every dollar spent as long as they spend a minimum of $15 each month. Aeroplan members who were earning miles with AT&T won't earn the enrollment bonus, but will continue to get five miles per dollar spent. Call 877-704-0799 to enroll.

 

[fragarific]

BUMP!!!!

 

[cremefilled]

essential.com is still giving a $25 check for signing up.

 

[j00]

yeah good idea for a thread, ttt. i want one that will give me cash money there used to be one that did .06$ a minute and gave you 100$ if you stayed for 6 months...ill try to find it if it's still around.

 

[regionfree]

Nice, any international long distance deals? I have to call Turkey a lot.

 

[w3b]

what's the minimum time needed to stay on the service?

 

[JMaster]

lol why are you so excited on the title of this thread?

 

[dirtrat]

The $100.00 back was from essential.com (QWEST) and is long gone however they have a $25.00 back deal and great 5.9/cents a minute deal. I've used them for 7 months with no problems. Even though I hate AT&T as a company, I did just (2 days ago) switch back to them for a 50.00 Gift Certificate and 120 minutes free Long distance for the first month. As soon as my first month is over I'm leaving them again!!! Try this link Text for this deal.

 

[KaBudokan]

Well, this has been posted before, but if you make a lot of LD calls it is almost a no brainer. www.Talk.com is 7 cents a minute (kind of steep) but they will match whatever you spend in online gift certificates - Amazon and GiftCertificates.com are the two most useful. Can't beat that IMO. (I make a LOT of ld calls, so it's a great deal.)

 

[cremefilled]

Thank you, dirtrat! I love playing these companies off of one another. I'll do Essential one month, then AT&T the next. I got a $50 Blockbuster gift certificate offer from Sprint today (sorry, no web address), so maybe I'll do that one too. (The only problem is using it up quickly!)

 

[dirtrat]

What I want to know is after leaving esential.com (Qwest) and going to AT&T for one month, will I be able to go back to Qwest and get a $25.00 bonus for signing up again?

 

[pdragn78]

slighty off topic; no deal for switching but this is the cheapest long distance rate i've found 3.6 cents/min anytime, anywhere within US; 75 cent monthly fee; No fee for each call so a 1 minute call is only 3.6 cents.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=261860

 

[drof]

personally if I make a lot of long long distance calls I'll just use a prepaid phone card. There's a bunch out there with connection fees of 50cents or so and then 1 cent/minute thereafter. The quality is pretty good.
for the ultra cheap way to do it, just look around for some of those free internet phone to phone web sites. There's a couple out there that let you make pc to phone or phone to phone calls for free and the quality is acceptable.
pcworld has a comparison of some free pc to phone sites
pcworld review
hottelephone.com for example lets you make calls to 30 countries

 

[spec411]

lets try to keep this on topic about DEALS companies offer to SWITCH long distance plans...namely the freebies and money offers, NOT the best long distance rates....

 

[RossMAN]

$50 for switching to Essential/QWest
No monthly fee.
5.9 cents/min
Minimum 6 month committment
Billed to your credit card every month NOT your local Ma Bell phone bill.

$50 Amazon GC switching to AT&T

ValueConsumer.com phone deals (LOTS OF 'EM)

DVDTalk Other Bargains thread

My personal favorites are the ones which offer cold hard cash or a credit to your phone bill. Usually AT&T will call and dangle a $100 in front of you to switch back.

Lately MCI has been calling me offering me 10,000 free frequent flier miles with the possibility to earn about another 40,000 United frequent flier miles. I personally hate MCI as a long distance company but who knows you even have to use your land lines long distance company? Just use BigZoo.com which offers 3.6 cents per minute domestic long distance with no monthly fee.

 

[craigg]

No upfront money here but the lowest "real" long distance rates around. 1+ and toll free calling from 4.5 cents per minute with calls carried over traditional phone lines insted of the internet like most other low priced services.

http://ld.net/1plus/?fcmi

for lowest rate to Turkey I found this:

33.7 cents per minute http://unitelagent.com/main.cgi?fcmi

...or go here for 17 cents a minute to Turkey with a 10 minute minimum per call http://www.worldxchange.com/products.asp?sp=1&p=c4l

Hope this helps

 

[spec411]

ROSSMAN: Excellent!!! As soon as I get all my current bonuses in a couple days imma use these ideas!!

 

[dirtrat]

Has anyone quit essential after the required 6 months and came back later to cash in on the $50.00 offer? I got the $100.00 offer from before but am curious if the will let me do this again.

 

[RossMAN]

spec411 - You're welcome, great thread idea by the way I hope it gets used and posted to a lot. We need central resources like this thread, it's indeed a hot deal.

dirtrat - Good question I'm sure that some enterprising/cunning deal addict here has tried joining Essential/Qwest then leaving after 6 months only to resign up again.

 

[dirtrat]

If they havn't then I'm going to in a few weeks. BTW I signed up for the AT&T deal for the $50.00 Super certificate 3 days ago but they still have not contacted me to verify the switch and no sign of any gift certificate. Maybe they are just behind. If I sign up for the $50.00 at essential and they don't honor it then I assume I'm not obligated to the 6 months with them.

 

[pleides]

Good idea, Spec and good find on the Valueconsumer link, Rossman.

If you sign up for MCI, you get 6 free Blockbuster movie or game rentals, plus 1 free rental for every $25 you spend each month
There is a $50 Blockbuster GC deal with MCI. If you don't get the offer by mail, you can call in and try to get it.

I would rather switch every couple of months, instead of a 6 month commitment with Essential.com.

 

[pleides]

Duplicate post. Too bad we can't just delete like on DVD Talk.

 

[spec411]

bump for new deals!!

 

[dirtrat]

Thought I would give this a bump. I finally got my $50.00 GC and 120 free long Distance minutes for signing up with AT&T. As soon as those minutes are gone I'm looking to sign up with someone else. Does anyone know of any new offers yet besides the ones already posted here?

 

[RossMAN]

I think my 6 month committment with QWest/Essential for my free $100 is over with now.

Does anyone know if this $50 Amazon GC for switching to AT&T is still valid?