On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:12:23PM -0400, Tim Wheeler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > ====[ On Wednesday 08 May 2002 04:56 pm, Joseph Key wrote: ]==== > > > I think I might dump my line at home for this thing. I'm sick of > > > figuring out long distance charges for my 3 roomies, and our phone bill > > > is like $80 > > > > a > > > > > month now anyway. > > > > I'd just drop long distance from the phone and make everyone get phone > > cards. You can get cards at Sam that work out to less then 4 cents a min. > > I was curious about this. I have phone card (I believe it's from Sam's Club) > that was bought at 2.5 cents/minute and recharges at 3.5 cents/minute. I've > heard you have to pay a fee to not have a long distance carrier. I'm in > college at the moment so I wouldn't know. > > Tim Well, my only experience is with Qwest. In actuality, _someone_ has to be your long-distance carrier. If you don't pick anyone, Qwest just charges you somewhere in the neighborhood of $.50 - $.60 per minute for long distance calls. They don't charge you any extra fees. -- Gabe Turner gabe at msi.umn.edu SGI Origin Systems Administrator, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation www.msi.umn.edu