AT&T is now history. For about $26 a month I had unlimited local calls. Period. If I made a long distance call, my carrier was Sprint, but AT&T charged me $5 to engage it for the month. And then the cost of the long distance, even if it was only a 30 second call to send a fax (the only reason why I use the house phone for long distance--the rest is cell phone). I didn't have call notes or Caller ID. I need to set my phone up so I can see the readout (the date and time are wrong on it) but I do have one phone with that ability. And they do make little boxes. This changeover will happen on Friday and then I'll have unlimited state or national calling and also Canada. So, I can finally call my aunt without jumping through a bunch of hoops or settling the national debt with the phone bill.

And I've locked it in for 12 months. I don't want cable, so I can't lock a plan for 2 years, but next year they can expect to be hearing back from me to negotiate this again.

So far this year I've changed, electric, phone, and insurance companies (auto and home). I'm tempted to change the bank, but I'll leave that for another day.

SRS