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There are still tons of business and residential phone service users in the United States that are paying way too much money to their phone service providers. It's a shame that companies and residential phone users are costing themselves so much extra money for phone service, when they could get the same services from an internet phone service provider, or one of the few remaining discount landline phone companies.
A lot of the consumers and businesses that are using regular landline companies, do so because they are afraid that if they switched to a discount land-line provider, or a new-fangled voice over IP company, the quality of their phone service would go down. These are the same people that don't have a problem standing in line at the movies and yelling their side of the phone conversation because their cell phone service sucks. Go Figure...
The truth is, that you can get phone services online for way less than what you're paying for a plan that comes from AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Qwest and others, even when you are getting your service from those same telephone companies. Most people don't know that the lower cost long distance phone companies buy the phone services that they resell from AT&T, Qwest and Global Crossing. What this means is that if you order service from a discount phone service provider like TCI or Pioneer Telephone for 2.9 cents per minute long distance phone service, your calls are actually running over ATT's, Qwest's or Global Crossing's phone lines.
Most people don't realize that they can also get great cell phone deals online. Discount resellers offer all the major cell phone carrier's calling plans for the same price that you can get from their company stores, but the cell phone discounters will give you a phone for free that is usually worth $200-$400 more than the free one that you would get if you bought directly from the company's retail store.
And, last but not least, for you diehards out there that swear you're not going to switch away from AT&T or Charter Digital, or Cox, or any of the other cable or telephone companies who offer phone service to consumers and businesses, guess what, you're already using VoIP and you don't know it. The truth is that the phone service you get from any cable company is VoIP, and the phone service that you are getting from AT&T U-Verse, or anything with the word digital in it, is a voice over IP product. So, why would you be willing to spend $25-$50 per month for digital phone service from your current provider, when you could get the same thing from Magicjack for $20 per year?
Lowering your monthly phone bills isn't really hard, but it does take some research. By using phone service comparison companies that offer phone service rate calculators, you can find companies that provide the same services that you use now, but at a fraction of the cost.
