Full timing Internet, entertain, communication on the cheap

Tiger4x4RV wrote:

Skid Row Joe wrote:

Google phone is free and unlimited calling. No one needs to spend a dime on any phone again. It's impossible to beat free.

Did you mean Google Voice? link to info about Google Voice It says it is not a phone, it is a "phone manager."

You'd still need internet connectivity, which sometimes is free and sometimes not.

Skid Row Joe wrote:

Google phone is free and unlimited calling. No one needs to spend a dime on any phone again. It's impossible to beat free.

WilliamKorn wrote:
We use cell phones for both voice, messaging and limited internet through the Verizon pay as you go plan. ($1.99 / day for voice / messages, $.02 per text sent or received and $.99 per 24 hour period for web access). Magicjack provides access to our cell phone messages without charge and phone service when internet is available. Magicjack costs $99.75 for five years. With the free internet access available in so many locations we never even think about any other source and when available, we download free programs / movies / music to entertain us when we not connected. A cheap wifi antenna allows us to sit outside in our RV and receive internet (Signal King on Amazon, SK-950WN, $21.89 delivered is a great unit)

Cell phone service for both phones was $1284.00 a year with a “plan” and now cost just $200.00 per year for both phones. Verizon service is active for a year with a $100.00 annual payment. We ended our first year with a carry over credit of $42.00 on one phone and $86.00 on the other. We average cell phone use about 35 days a year.

Voice mail on the cell phones is retrieved and answered via Magicjack if it is available through free internet otherwise messages from both phones is retrieved and answered on one cell phone.

So, to sum up our annual costs incurred when full-timing are either $120.00 for Magicjack and one cell phone or $220.00 with two cell phones.

BarbaraOK wrote:
Not sure how this will help unless you are always close to your computer - which we are not. Heavens, we've been known to call each other from the middle of Costco when we each go our separate ways to find things. Or someone in the family calls as we are out geocaching - and we use our smart phones for geocaching. Look up restaurant reviews while out and about, etc. And park WiFi is usually horrible and getting on at Starbucks has become a real problem. Where is everyone finding all of this good, high speed wifi for free?

Barb