Re: Alternatives to LOCAL phone service???

Bob Ward wrote:
> 
> On 19 Nov 2003 11:36:40 -0500, SlugBug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >  One problem that I have with the scenario of pulling the plug on this
> >monthly fee is that people would have to leave messages on my wife's voice
> >mail at work.  I was wondering, are there any inexpensive voice mail
> >solutions that a person can access by calling an 800 number, or something
> >similar?  I used to have something like this through a service called
> >Onebox, but now that service costs $13 a month. (I can get unlimited local
> >calling for $15 a month, or $23 when you add on all the taxes and such)  I
> >was wondering if anyone knows of a way to get a voice mail box for around
> >$5 a month or less, just so we could have a way for people to leave us
> >messages if they need to, and for us to access the messages whenever it is
> >convenient for us to do so.
> 
> I went without phone service at home for about 3 years, a few years
> ago.  I used a pager service with voice-mail - about $8 per month back
> then - when I got paged, I went to a pay phone and returnedthe call.

You can do that with Pharos/eCallPlus for $3.33/month, and if you never
use your minutes otherwise you can return your pages for free by just
pushing the 'talk' button :-)

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Cheers, Bev  
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