I am a sucker for all things technological, now the phone company has me hooked!
I called to get the information on Call Waiting ID. Since I use my home phone as my business phone I thought this would be an added benefit to best service my clients if I am on a personal call.
The woman suckered me into going for the full blown package, an additional $7 from what I pay now, including adding 100 minutes to my cell during the week for an additional $5. So I have added about $12 per month to my phone bill!
Here are the list of features will I have, including one number service (one number to dial that rings on both the cell phone and home phone.)
Call Waiting
Call Waiting ID**
Call Waiting Deluxe
Call Waiting with Long Distance Alert
Caller ID**
Anonymous Call Rejection
Three-Way Calling
Last Call Return
Call Following SM
Call Forwarding®
Selective Call Forwarding
Custom Ringing
Continuous Redial
Priority Call
Call Rejection
Speed Calling 8
Speed Calling 30
Like I need all this shit on my phone line! But HEY, why not?
Does this mean that your clients get diverted to a Bondage Sex Line? Damn these acronymns
I guess this means NO, I’m not a phone feature slut. I HATE call waiting. If it’s engaged, I’ll just call back. I can see the use from a business perspective though.
[Seinfeld] Yeah, I know I have call waiting, but I don’t trust it in an emergency! click [/Seinfeld]
On US West’s pages, it’s superscript…SM, I don’t even know what that means!
Stud Mark
Slut Mark
Stain Mark
Stupid Mark
etc…
< techchick should never call a company where they are trying hard to sell me on their phone features but can’t get off their asses and offer me high speed internet access! >
I never used any of it except call waiting (and call ID was nice, but not essential) for a few months, and then when I really wanted call block or *69 to work they wouldn’t.
I’m still pissed off. I want RCN to give me a fiber connection so I can go out with a pair of dykes and sever all ties to the evil phone company.
Since I hate talking on the phone, I’ve long been a holdout against rampant phone-itis. I had my answering machine unplugged for years, since the messages were all for my daughter. (Gimme a break–they were her friends calling every five minutes and leaving the same endless message as they left five minutes before.)
Then I got a new answering machine–needed it for my job, ya know? It has three mailboxes, but I can’t figure out how to get them to work without running up the cell phone bill. (I pay by the minute–don’t use it much. Sorta chicken and egg, I know.)
Then came the fax. It’s real handy and I don’t have to keep the computer on and it costs (slightly) less to copy on it than at the store. I oughta save the purchase price in pennies and gas in about, oh, three hundred years.
Then CallWave came along. It’s like an answering machine I can listen to while I’m online. It would beat the hell out of TPC’s voice mail if it worked while I was talking on the phone, too. There are newer ones that will, but my system is too screwed up as it is.
So I have started down the slippery slope. Three daughters are getting me thinking about call waiting. Creepy ex-boyfriends (of the oldest, not me) are getting me thinking about activating the caller ID on the kitchen phone. (It didn’t cost extra when I got the phone. Well, not much.) Techie’s phone gadgetry is starting to look interesting.
And I still hate to talk on the phone. At least, when I’m not being paid to.
I don’t know why I have such a high phone bill. I pay about 50 bucks a month for a phone I use maybe 2 times a day. All I want on my damn phone is caller ID and call waiting. They keep trying to put me on all these deluxe plans. Then I go and change my long distance provider every time ATT sends me a check to switch and they hit me with another 20 bucks. They charge me the pro-rated long distance along with the whole charge of my new long distance provider. how do I get a 30 dollar bill. My cell phone is cheaper and I use it more often!!!
Okay, this is officially NOT spam. Seriously. I make no money if y’all go and sign up for this thing:
http://www.broadpoint.com It’s free long-distance. Up to two hours free a month. Go and check it out. I was able to call California and sustain two-hour onversations with my friend Helga. I do now have a long-distance carrier in my room, so how else could this have worked?
I’ve got every conceiveable feature on my phone, and I actually use them.
I use call forwarding, and voice messaging, and call waiting w/caller ID, caller ID, call block, priority call, long distance alert, and so on and so on.
My girlfriend rolls her eyes when I come home with a new phone, especially one the cost $180. But I see a phone that I dig and I have to buy it. Then I can give one of my old phones to my mom or my brother or some shit like that.
Anyway, I love phones, and fully featured ones at that.
Autodial, smart dial, smart re-dial, Optimized for caller ID, and so on.
If you ever come to my pad, you will have the pleasure of using one of two cool fuckin-A phones.
See ya there.
~Santi
PS Yeah, I’m back. I find I can’t play my Addict-O-Game at work, so I think I shall return to being a reg, at least after 10:30 PM.
Yeah, I love you too.
Yeah, I know you missed me.
Yeah, I missed you too.
Peace.
No more worry about what the hell that hang-up call was. In fact, I haven’t had a hang-up call since. Nor have I spoken to a single telemarketer. Bwah hah hah!
Turns out those hang-up calls were partially random people at the apartment gate, hoping that I might let them in. So, I had my number removed from the gate. The other portion of the hang-ups were apparently telemarketing calls that were on that annoying automated response…bleh.
I’m a phone feature freak of the reverse type. No one believes this, but, not only do I not have caller ID, call waiting, or any other “extra” phone services…I do not even own an answering machine. Amazingly, I do manage to function.
My neice (who is all of eleven years younger than me), thinks I’m living in the stone age, of course.
I hate call waiting… i have voice messaging, but i dispise when someone else uses that “hold on a second” line on me on their call waiting… i hang up.
I think it’s rude and obnoxious. If a person is waiting for an important call, simply say so… in that 1-2 minutes the important call can go to the voicemail.
You don’t need Last Call Return if you have caller ID. You probably don’t need the two speed call features since most phones today have built in speed dial features. 4 call waiting features? If you are getting Call Waiting Delux, you are probably getting double billed with the regular Call Waiting. I’d also find out about Call Rejection and Priority Call. If you don’t use them, then ditch them.
Everybody should go over their phone bills with a fine tooth comb since the phone companies assume that people don’t. They will try to sneak in different charges every once in a while. Think about that $1 per customer per month could add up to a shit load of money for a phone company.
