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Old 11-10-2010, 03:09 PM   #266
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TOTAL nonsense. You seem to be implying that your way is somehow cheaper than a simple prepaid and one simple landline, which is just plain wrong.
Not at all. I pointed out specifically where the money was going on my actual bills. The only thing left to opinion is whether it's a waste of money, and since it's my money (and I therefore decide whether the utility value is worth the price) I get to make that call. Duplication of services is where I see a waste of money.

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1) VERY few people that have a smart phone do not also have a home high speed internet connection, so counting home internet cost in such a comparison is not legitimate in the real world.
Internet is Internet; Amazon.com doesn't care how you connect to their servers as long as you buy something when you do. Comparing one Internet service to another is perfectly legitimate.

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2) Find any data packages that are $26/year? That is so low it is effectively zero. Sure, there may be some that are cheaper than in the article, but not many and not by much when compared to a basic prepaid phone only.
Not seeing the relevance there but whatever.

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If you want to do your business over a cell, feel free to do so but you will not have the security or legal protections afforded by the long legal history of landlines.
Ah, well, you seemed to think so at one point:

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Indeed. I miss my old analog 3 watt bag phone with a roof antenna which I needed for my business back in the 90s before I retired (when not every yackety yahoo and his dimwitted 10-year-old had a cell phone).
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I have, they don't, at least not in 2005 at McMurdo, Cape Evans, Royds, or Adare (much less Taylor Dry Valley). It is F'ing ANRARCTICA, for God's sake!
It is F'ing SARCASM, for God's sake!

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