Century Link in South Central Florida
Just curious what other six month Snowbirds do for Phone/Internet in the Sebring, Lake Placid & other parts of the South-Central Florida area where Century Link operates as the Local Carrier. Here is...
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Canuck Travellers wrote:
Thanks for your reply, yours sounds similar to our bill, we do go to their "Vacation hold" in order to keep our phone number when we go north at a cost of $21/Month.
We are thinking of keeping our DSL and dropping our landline and using VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) in trying to cut some costs out of the phone bill. Our Canadian dollar is down badly this year so we need to economize somewhat. My wife uses FaceTime a lot to talk to our daughter, I do use Skype with a Skype adapter sometimes to call Canada so if necessary could drop our landline.
Not sure if you are talking about DSL and VOIP for Florida or in Canada, but we dumped Bell back here at home, we had our ISP provider install a "dry loop" replacing the phone line and we went with Vonage for VOIP phone. The dry loop is a system that is used for security systems and fire signals but the DSL runs over that system (but not phones).
The change paid back in under a year and it may be possible to take the Vonage phone to and from your two locations if you have DSL at each. Vonage have some great LD plans as well and also "extensions" that extend the LD plan to your smart phone. Some ideas to think about.
