[somewhat off-topic] Comcast and Verizon

[Bill Bogstad]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Dan Ritter <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:56:02AM -0400, R. Luoma wrote:
>
> I'm pretty sure it's very hard to order phone service from VZ
> and Comcast without getting an all-you-can-talk local and
> continental US LD plan included. International is likely to be
> of average cost, but if you're really concerned, setting up
> Asterisk and going minute-by-minute with Teliax or VoipJet or
> someone like that is reasonably easy and quite cheap.

Verizon still operates under local tariffs for phone service and I
believe you can still get lifeline
wired service from them if you qualify (low income).  I think you can
still get per minute/per call
service as well, but expect to have to fight to get the info.   A call
to whatever Mass. state department that regulates them will probably
get you the right service names, etc. faster then talking to Verizon
directly.

Bill Bogstad