Verizon can give you: DSL, unlimited local, toll and long distance (including calls to Canada) and coming very soon, Directv for one price (don't know what that'll be).
Watch out for all the additional taxes and FCC charges, but any regualr phone company will have to add those too.
I wonder if the trick is to keep your technologies diverse. Very basic wireline service is cheap (for you emergency calls), you can get all kinds of great deals on wireless, and voice-over IP seems to be coming on in leaps and bounds.
Actually, it won't work on every telemarketer. Political organisations and charities are still allowed to call you. And if a company has a prior business relationship with you, they can call you up to 18 months after their last contact. For instance, if you are a Verizon customer you will still get telemarketing calls from them offering you DSL or whatever. If you don't want these calls, you will have to ask them to put you on the companys' do not call list.
On a slightly different note, I would have thought telemarketing companies would be pleased to know that their time and money isn't being wasted on leads which are never going to pan out. The people who sign up for the do not call list are the people who were never going to buy anything anyway. If you're still interested in aluminum siding for your 8th floor rented apartment, you won't sign up for the list, and telemarketers can still predate you. Simple as that.
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Verizon can give you: DSL, unlimited local, toll and long distance (including calls to Canada) and coming very soon, Directv for one price (don't know what that'll be). Watch out for all the additional taxes and FCC charges, but any regualr phone company will have to add those too. I wonder if the trick is to keep your technologies diverse. Very basic wireline service is cheap (for you emergency calls), you can get all kinds of great deals on wireless, and voice-over IP seems to be coming on in leaps and bounds.
Actually, it won't work on every telemarketer. Political organisations and charities are still allowed to call you. And if a company has a prior business relationship with you, they can call you up to 18 months after their last contact. For instance, if you are a Verizon customer you will still get telemarketing calls from them offering you DSL or whatever. If you don't want these calls, you will have to ask them to put you on the companys' do not call list. On a slightly different note, I would have thought telemarketing companies would be pleased to know that their time and money isn't being wasted on leads which are never going to pan out. The people who sign up for the do not call list are the people who were never going to buy anything anyway. If you're still interested in aluminum siding for your 8th floor rented apartment, you won't sign up for the list, and telemarketers can still predate you. Simple as that.