Death of a cellphone (Gimme your digits)

[plural]

so

as many of you know my cellphone went playing in traffic
and suffered a grievous injury leading to an untimely death

This means my previous address book is toast and unrecoverable

So, I do not have any of yall's phone numbers any more

so if you want me to have your number(s)

fill out the poll below

[Poll #346870]

oh

some of you I either already know when a good time to call is,
or I just dont care and will call you any old time that suits me

if you are one of those, you prolly know it
if you arent and want me to call leave times of the day it is best to reach you

I will try to fit everyone in for as long as it interests or amuses me to do so,
but I have no idea if that will be five minutes or five days

yeah I love you all so

please dont be offended if you dont get a call

and

please dont be offended if you do

Comments

[plural.livejournal.com]

yep

hotmail is still my primary email
[and I dont plan on changing it]

and

I done responded to that email

also maybe you can help me out

I want to set up a number as a local number for people in DC & Baltimore (you, my sister, and others), but I am having trouble getting a hold of anyone at verizon (who I assume is the local provider) who will talk to me without an account number or who can identify their ass from any number of holes in the wall.

I tried using your number and my sisters to overlap but the system I used was all sorts of buggy and so I dont trust its results.

[budhaboy.livejournal.com]

how are you setting up local numbers?

Are you using vonage?

[plural.livejournal.com]

indeed I am

its pretty sweet

[budhaboy.livejournal.com]

I was seriously thinking about going voip, but after that hurricane, I decided we needed to have a land line. Since Verizon started offering $69/month land line with caller id, call waiting, voice mail, and two other services I can't remember, plus unlimited nationwide/canada long distance I just couldn't justify it.

If I made more international calls (Canada is just a state after all), I suppose it'd be worth it.

[plural.livejournal.com]

Nodnod

they dont offer anything like that in canada
they are still on the old screw you in the buttocks forms of telecommunication.

so far vonage has been pretty sweet and it will let me drop my cell phone bill from 350$ a month down to around 150$ and for that kind of money you can justify a lot of things.

not to mention I can travel with it, all I need is a 90kbps connection and I can plug my phone in and be up and running.

[budhaboy.livejournal.com]

I here there are cell phones coming (or have arrived?) that will alternate between either a traditional cellphone network, or VOIP if it is available...

[plural.livejournal.com]

well you'd have to have an alternate broadcast medium to connect to a VOIP system

but something like the 2.4ghz system I have installed in the house would work

man, that would be sweet

[budhaboy.livejournal.com]

Anyway, there's a funny thing about the assfucks known as verizon... they charge long distance for any call in a different area code (unless, of course you have verizon long distance)...

[plural.livejournal.com]

in other words

since verizon is the telco out there

its pretty much impossible to get a central number
that isnt ld?

[budhaboy.livejournal.com]

That has been my experience... However with that new deal they pimped hard last winter I suspect very few people actually pay for long distance anyway.

You may wish to just get a number in your sister's area code so she can make calls (I am presuming she is limited to a pay phone, or that she is billed some outrageous rate for LD?)...

[plural.livejournal.com]

yeah getting a local to her number is the priority for exactly what you mentioned, I was just hoping I could find a way to include DC in there when doing so