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AT&T Landline-Free Internet Savings

Submitted by: anonymous 05/06/2009 11:11 AM

If you don't use your phone but want internet with AT&T:

My phone bill with at&t was around 50.00 because I had internet and the regular plans & services for my land line. I recently discovered that I could disconnect my land line and still have DSL at the same speed. They call it Dry loop/Direct Internet.

They mention that you "still need a line" when you call them to get this service BUT upon further inquiry as to what that means basically...the phone jack needs to still be in tack. You don't have to have any land line service going through it too! SAVINGS! SAVINGS! The ONLY drawbacks.

There will be one day of downtime for your internet but when it comes back up it will be just as fast as before. Also, the actual price of Dry loop/Direct Internet will be $10.00 more than your paying now. Still your saving on your land line disconnection. Now my bill will be around $35.00. Yah!

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nice, that works out to $180 year! got to try this. have been trying to figure out how to get rid of my land line.

Posted by anonymous on May 09, 2009 10:57 AM

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pricing depends on your location. it is still a savings though.

Posted by anonymous on May 11, 2009 9:12 PM

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If you find that you are unable to forgo the land line you can request a measured line, it is 8.00 a month, the down fall is that you can only make 25 outgoing calls a month, but when your thinking you don't need the line, it shouldn't matter.

Posted by anonymous on May 13, 2009 9:35 AM

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Also, you may want to check and see if anyone else sells internet in your area. I have a company called Starnet Wireless and they do dry hookups too. My internet is only 22.87 / month. There is also a referral abatement if you refer someone to them, so the internet can be almost free if you refer all your friends.

Posted by anonymous on May 14, 2009 4:28 PM

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If you have a home security system such as ADT or Brinks, etc., you will still need a land line for it to work. Please check before you disconnect!

Posted by anonymous on May 17, 2009 12:08 AM

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For my family, a landline is a waste of money. We spent over forty dollars monthly for land lines and then one day figured out that we only used prepaid cellular.

That's when we made the big leap to a phone free house. And, it's really worked for us. Now we use AT&T prepaid cellular for calling each other and SKYPE or other free online VOIP phone to call non-network phone customers.

Currently, we're using AT&T DSL and the quality is nowhere near as good as broadband.

My DSL signal goes down about once every two hours. Very inconvenient!

So far it's not worth the 20.00 monthly that I'm paying. But I guess for twenty bucks savings over regular broadband, I could learn to live with the inconvenience.

Posted by Beverly -- Money saving mama on May 17, 2009 8:03 PM

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I do this with Verizon. They even gave us a discount for one year. $28.00 a month. It will be $40.00 after that year. Unfortunatly we live in a small rural area and Verizon is the ONLY phone/internet service. Our only other option is cable and it's WAY more expensive.

Posted by Susan on May 17, 2009 10:09 PM

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Only in America (USA) do consmers permit huge communication giants to provide sch low quality and expensive commnication services and products. Europe and Asia are far ahead on price, quality and service. We have become a nation of ignorant consmers that believe everything the media spews.

Posted by anonymous on May 18, 2009 11:11 AM

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EMERGENCY almost all cell phones do not work with 911 so if you drop that dial tone you could be endangering your family. cell phone calls to 911 go to central site maybe not even in your state. They then ask you what county you live in, then transfer you there this takes many seconds longer than a direct connect provided by a land line that is assigned to your home, and a dispatch is ready even before you say your problem. this problem is also an issue with voip.

Posted by ray on June 07, 2009 3:20 PM

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@ray - just program a direct dial to your local dispatcher. your police station shld knw what the # is. easy and saves money.

Posted by anonymous on June 07, 2009 8:31 PM

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I would like to chime in on my personal experience with 911 and cell phones. I live in rural Illinois. We had a heck of a storm blow through here knocking down power lines, cutting off communication with phone lines, and even cell towers were damaged by straight line winds and a EF2 tornado, this happened exactly one year ago this month.

Our cell phone still worked and when I called 911 our local 911 Service answered and they also patched us into county and Emergency Management. This could have been because wicked weather had been forcasted and the departments were given a notice about 12 hours in advance, I did not think to ask which 911 service I called, I was a little preoccupied. I only asked if we could come out of shelter so to see what damage has been done.

So the 911 service worked in our case and that was with a cell tower hanging on part of the major power tower after it being blown there by the tornado. The link provided has the picture of the tornado as we saw it right before it hit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2008_tornado_outbreak_sequence

Posted by MichelleK on June 10, 2009 6:41 PM

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We have also used our cell phone to call 911 and it went directly to our local dispatch. No problems. In fact, all cell phone are required to keep you open for 911 calls even if you have no service, just keep your phone charged. So even if you don't want to have cell phone service, just pick up a used phone at a thrift store, from a friend or use your old one and keep it charged in the car as an extra.

Posted by lisa g on June 28, 2009 11:39 PM

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I have been told that you can get a ADT/Brinks call to your cell phone if you have voice over internet phone service. However, no one can tell me how this is done. Can anyone advise if this is accurate or not, please? I don't understand how this could work. Thank you.

Posted by anonymous on October 04, 2009 10:56 AM

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I have AT&T Uverse and find that I cannot put my tv on vacation hold as I did with Comcast. What alternative do I have? I would like to put my internet on hold also. Any suggestions?

Posted by anonymous on December 31, 2009 8:26 PM

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