On my home phone (land-line, don't ask :( ), Verizon called and offered the $65 month plan. $65 a month, unlimited calls blah, blah, blah. I bit. My bill was $65 for exactly 1 month. Every once in a while I look at my $95 "$65 a month plan" and call them to complain. They knock off a couple of bucks to shut me up.
In preparation for taking off for the winter, I installed a temp/water alarm. It uses the landline to call out with alarm conditions. I called Verizon and asked if there was some level of service between the $95 "$65 a month plan" and vacation standby. "No". Great way to treat someone who has been a customer for 40 years.
So I went to the Verizon Wireless store and bought a wireless home phone adapter (basically a cell phone in a box that you plug a handset into), added that to my wireless plan ($20) and plugged the home alarm into it. Put the landline on vacation standby ($18) and the total monthly revenue to Verizon Inc dropped to $38. How stupid an one company be?