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Online Cell Phone Vendor Recommendation: Amazon Wireless

2011-05-14T11:54:00.000-07:00

I posted previously about wireless phone plans, and highlighted a respected online cell phone vendor. I have also been highly impressed by the efforts of Amazon Wireless, which has quite a wide selection of cell phones, from all the major carriers.

Amazon Wireless has a very nice cell phone search set up that lets you browse by phone manufacturer and providers. They offer phones from AT&T ( which seem hard to find online), Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and other major carriers. If you are interest in discount cell phone prices on brand new premium phones, check them out:

Wireless Phone Plans

2010-11-01T16:07:00.000-07:00

Wireless Phone Plans- Save when you order wireless phones and service plans online. If you have a cell phone, you usually need a plan. While there are prepaid cell phones and pay as you go wireless options, it often makes the most sense to get a standard contract plan from a major wireless carrier. You may think all wireless phone providers are the same, but there are many different plan options and different wireless providers offer different levels of coverage and quality of cellular service depending on your location and needs.

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Television Packages

2010-11-01T15:13:00.000-07:00

Television and other entertainment services such as internet can be purchased in packages from your local cable tv company. These television packages normally include a digital television service along with a high speed internet plan and voip phone plan or other digital home phone service.

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High Speed Internet

2010-11-01T15:11:00.000-07:00

High Speed Internet is more affordable than ever with multiple ISP vendors competing for your business. You can get high speed internet packages from your local telephone, cable, or internet company. These services can be bought stand-alone or in a bundled package with other services, called a triple playt internet package or triple plae cable bundle.

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Calling Cards

2010-11-01T14:52:00.001-07:00

Save Money on your long distance and international calling with discount calling cards, which you can buy online.

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VOIP Phone

2010-06-01T15:51:00.000-07:00

VOIP phone is a digital phone service that allows you to make telephone calls over your home's high speed internet access line. This could be a cable internet service or a digital internet line from your phone company. The voice over internet is a very popular service often packaged with internet and sometimes television cable bundles. Since you need high speed internet service to use a voip telephone service, it makes sense for phone and cable companies to offer these services as a bundle. When they add the option of digital tv they offer what is called a triple play bundle, where 3 related home entertainment services are sold from one company on the same bill.

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Toll Free Service

2010-02-01T15:26:00.000-08:00

Toll Free Service can be a good value for business as well as personal use. Having a toll free number can allow a business to appear more professional as well as allow customers to call from long distance for free. While long distance charges aren't as significant as they used to be many potential customers still have to pay long distance charges. Having a toll free or 1-800 number is a convenience.

Toll free numbers also come in 877,866,888 and other exchanges in addition to the 800 toll free numbers. Businesses can use toll free numbers for national sales cmapiagns, for receiving orders, and call center order fulfillment.

Why would an individual person or family use a toll free number? A lot of families started using toll free numbers so their children could call them for free at any time. These include families who want their college children to call home without racking up their own long distance charges. The parents can control and pay for the costs this way. Toll free numbers are also good in emegrencies when a child does not have a cell phone or funds to pay for a pay phone call. A per minute charge and low monthly fee for toll free service can provide considerable savings over collect calls.

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Tampa Bay VOIP Long Distance

2009-12-23T22:39:00.001-08:00

When it comes to long distance savings, most customers are looking for the best long distance phone rates in general or for calling a specific international destination. So why is this post about Tampa Bay long distance calling and Tampa Bay VOIP long distance plans specifically?

A lot of potentional customers have been searching for and asking me about discount phone service in certain geographical areas. Do I recommend a specific long distance phone provider or long distance service type in Tampa Bay, for example?

That is a good question. There ARE different phone service providers and service types depending on your location. Tampa Bay may have more long distance providers than Boise, for example. Maybe there is more or less competition from resellers. In some areas major providers like AT&T provide exceptional value, especially in triple play packages. They also face competition on basic landline home phone services.

For long distance in Tampa Bay, I would be willing to bet a Tampa Bay voip provider might offer the best deal. With the rise of companies like Vonage, the local providers like AT&T ( with their uVerse) and Verizon have gone the old "if you can't beat them, join them" route and are pushing their own digital phone services. These voip calling plans often provide better value than old 1 plus long distance, in Tampa Bay and elsewhere.

So what is the best long distance provider in Tampa Bay? What I recommend is using a tool like the Whitefence triple play quote tool ( see banner below) and entering your local information for a service quote. Another option is just going directly to a VOIP provider like the one at the bottom of this post. Either way you will find a good deal for long distance in Tampa bay or anywhere.

Discount Long Distance

2009-08-18T13:13:00.000-07:00

Remember all those 10-10 long distance companies? You don't? Well, back in the late 90s there were many companies like 10-10-320 that ran television commercials for their discount long distance services. AT&T fought back...with Carrot Top.

These 10-10 numbers allowed a caller to dial ( often from pay phones, remember those?) the number and then pay only 10 cents per minute for long distance calls. I remember names like the "dime line" and these companies places ads and cards everywhere. Back then AT&T and MCI charged outrageous rates like 20-30 cents a minute to call someone across the state.

The "problem" with these dime a minute services was that eventually someone would come out with the 5 cent call, then the 4 cent, and 3 cent. Big companies lowered their rates to 7 cents per minute. And other competing services took over ( VOIP, wireless,etc). This was before EVERYONE had a cell phone. A lot of young adults had pagers. When they received a page they would call the number back from home or a pay phone.

Around 2000 many long distance companies came to be- offering 3-4 cpm without dialing a code every time you made a call. For a few years it was very easy to get someone to replace their AT&T plan with a <5 cents plan with no monthly fees.

While the heyday of this service is long gone ( people have cell phones, VOIP, Instant messaging, text, facebook now), there are still quite a few discount long distance companies with very good rates of 2-3 cents per minute on long distance calls.

Broadband Phone

2009-08-18T13:06:00.000-07:00

Broadband Phone is growing in popularity and will continue to do so in our opinion. By Broadband Phone we mean phone service that uses your high speed internet connection. The most well known example is Vonage. There are MANY companies like Vonage with very similar offerings and deals. Even most local phone and cable companies now offer something like this and many are pushing the switch. For example, I was an AT&T land line customer but their reps talked me into switching to Uverse digital phone.

Carriers who felt threatened by VOIP have made the smart move by embracing the service. Many cheap broadband companies ( Sunrocket anyone?) have gone out of business.

International Call Origination from Canada and Overseas

2009-08-18T13:02:00.001-07:00

Most of our international calling clients were based in the United States and wanted to call Canada or other countries. However, many clients actually lived IN Canada and wanted to make calls that originated internationally. This could include Canadians who needed to call friends in the United States or Europe.

The solutions for this are not as plentiful, however there are a few internationally calling cards and services that get the job done. Recent VOIP services also cater to Canadian customers and those who want to be able to choose where their calls originate.

Dialaround Long Distance Phone Service

2009-08-18T12:55:00.000-07:00

Dialaround is a long distance phone service that allows the subscriber to save money on phone calls without changing providers. You signup for a service that gives you a toll free access code and allows you to "dial around" and use that provider for a specific phone call.

This service was particularly popular for international calls, where phone company rates where very high. We signed up a lot of customers who had origins in Asia and Eastern Europe especially. This works similar to the international calling card. However, the dial around providers allowed a customer to register phone numbers they would call from, with no need to use a card.

Bundled Phone Services

2009-08-18T12:44:00.000-07:00

Bundled Services in this sense refers to local and long distance phone from the same company on one bill. In the "old days" of land line residential phone service, it was pretty common to have a local carrier and another for long distance. For example Verizon ( or another Baby Bell) would be the local carrier and you would get your long distance ( and separate bill) through AT&T.

In the early 2000s, a lot of local reseller providers started offering flat rate local and long distance for one price on one bill. These bundles often included many premium features ( call waiting, caller ID, voicemail) for "free" and a set number or unlimited minutes.

Many of the big local providers got in on the act as well as expanding wireless and digital phone ( voip) offerings. The reseller bundles have fallen out of favor. Now one can get a similar deal through AT&T, opt for VOIP services, or use free wireless minutes for long distance calls.

Bundles may now refer to subscribing to phone, cable/tv, and internet all through one provider. A cable triple play, if you will. For example I use AT&T Uverse for my home phone, internet, and television programming. Many cable companies offer something similar.

Delmarva Telecom Relaunch

2009-08-17T14:23:00.000-07:00

We are in the process of moving our site delmarvatelecom and re-launching as a blog. The current site has a lot of issues and the design is antiquated. We have decided to make it a blog for easier updating.

I am going to be adding a lot of skeleton posts and doing a lot of editing and playing with the setting the next several days. The goal is to get all the info from the main site into blog form without missing anything.

Discount Phone Services

2009-02-09T15:09:00.000-08:00

Discount phone services can include business calling providers, traditional landline, voip carriers, cellular, and more.

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Conference Calling

2008-11-09T15:07:00.000-08:00

Conference Calling is a good tool for communicating with groups, whether business organizational or personal. Use business conference calling to get your team on the same page or use conference calls with your family or friends who are spread out. Conference calling is very affordable and an easy way to stay in tough and communicate with multiple people.

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AT&T Internet and Phone Deals

2008-11-01T09:19:00.000-07:00

For AT&T Home Internet and Phone discounts, you can search online using a tool or "widget" that uses your location to find the deals in your area. For example if you put in your phone number or address you can see what AT&T internet deals are available:

Web Hosting

2008-08-01T15:55:00.000-07:00

Web hosting packages can be ordered online for a fraction of the cost that was charged in the early days of the internet. Small time hobbyists and "real" internet businesses alike can choose from many packages from premium webhosting providers. Often a shared hosting package on the small business level can be sufficient for hosting most websites or a network of small web pages. If your needs are greater, consider a larger shared paackage or a dedicated server package.

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Cell Phones

2008-07-01T15:04:00.000-07:00

Cell phones are available from many major carriers, and you can now shop for cell phones online.

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Business Broadband

2007-11-01T14:38:00.000-07:00

Business broadband and commercial bandwidth are now easy to quote online. Whether you need to replace your existing T1 line or find a VOIP service provider or fixed wireless solution, consider consulting a broadband expert.