On Friday, February 14, 2020 at 8:30:16 PM UTC-5, A K wrote:
On Friday, February 14, 2020 at 5:00:55 PM UTC-6, trader_4 wrote:
On Friday, February 14, 2020 at 4:58:48 PM UTC-5, A K wrote:
I have a landline and internet from Frontier.

My bill is $70 plus $18 more of taxes.

That's around a 25 % tax rate !!!!

I am also not happy that Frontier has a monopoly on land line service..

I could live without the landline, but I have to have it because I have
DSL.

Are there any cheaper options?

Thanks,
Andy

I assume by landline, you mean VOIP over the internet, not copper wires?
But it doesn't matter. You can likely drop the phone part of Frontier,
just use them for internet and use any of the VOIP companies. I've used
Ooma, for example. You buy the VOIP box, about $50, then the service
is just about $5 a month, which is to cover the taxes and fees. It's
worked great for me. The only thing stopping you would be if Frontier
won't unbundle the phone and internet or charge you just as much without
phone, but they probably can't do that.

My landline is copper wires.

I like having a landline because it still works when a hurricane hits which can knock out cell towers.

I found out that Frontier charges $6 each month for when they have to repair a phone line that someone digging cuts.

I told the lady, "You mean customers have to pay when someone damages the phone line ?"

I am praying for peace. :-)

Andy

Sorry, I screwed that up. I missed the dsl part. So, I assume no other internet service, eg cable is available? If not, then I guess you're stuck. Kind of surprised that you can't get just dsl internet without voice phone service. I would think regulators would require them to unbundled. You might want to check about that.

Most people would have voice over copper, with dsl added, but no technical reason you can't have dsl without phone service.