January 20th, 2010
Cleartel communications is no longer in business. They were bought last year by Birch Communications. If you go to Cleartel’s old phone service website, there is a page up that says Birch will continue to provide service for Cleartel customers, but since they are no longer paying commissions to agents who brought the customers to Cleartel in the first place, if you’re an old Cleartel customer, you should leave their service on principal.
Agents work hard to find the best-cheapest phone service for their customers, and when those companies quit paying their agents, or don’t pay the agents that go with the customers that they aquire through consolidation with other phone companies, I think it’s crooked. They know they’re stealing from the very people who brought the customer to the table in the first place, which makes them a company that you can’t trust to work with in the future.
Tags: Birch Communications, Cleartel, Crooked Companies, out of business
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December 13th, 2009
If you have any questions about bundling your local, long distance, VoIP, high speed internet service, cable TV and/or Dish Network together, get on over to PhoneTVInternet.com and get the answers. PhoneTVInternet.com is a website that lets users help answer your questions, kind of like Yahoo.com/answers. By getting answers to you local phone, internet and cable bundling questions from users like you, you know that answers will be helpful, instead of just a bunch of sales hype, like you’d get if you went directly to Charter.com or Cox.com or AT&T or any of the other companies that are currently offering bundled services.
Tags: Bundled Services, internet, phone, tv
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December 3rd, 2009
I always wonder how come telephone companies can’t seem to stay in business. After reading an article in the Seattle PI about the pending sale of 4.8 million users and their phone service from Verizon to Frontier Communications for $8.6 billion, I now know why. At that price, Frontier is paying $1,791.67 per user line. While it’s a deal of some kind, I don’t see how you can consider it a good deal.
Sure, I’m not a high paid telecom CEO or CFO, but from what I’ve seen happening to the wireline telecom industry over the last few years, you’d have to give me the customers before I’d take them. Here are a few random reasons why I wouldn’t touch the deal with a ten foot pole:
- Verizon is losing money on these customers now!
- People are canceling their local wireline phone service at a rate of around 10% per year or higher.
- Qwest is selling a basic local phone service account for $13.50 per month, with a full blown unlimited local and long distance calling plan for less than $50.00 per month. The problem with that, is that Frontier would have to make $50 per month in profit, off of each of their customers, for 3 years, just to break even, and that’s not going to happen.
- VoIP and cell phones are set to completely replace wireline service over the next 10-20 years, so why would you pay for these customers, when you know statistically that they’re going to jump ship in the near future anyway?
There’s a whole bunch of other reasons, but the main point is that this “New Telecom Math” just isn’t going to do anything but put Frontier out of business.
Tags: Frontier Communications Local service, Verizon Local
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July 15th, 2009
Does anyone know why Cleartel’s agent site links aren’t working? I know they got tired of signing up local residential traffic, so they moved to business accounts only, but did they quit taking businesses too?
Drop me a line if you know the answer…
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April 29th, 2009
I forgot to mention awhile back, that Cleartel has switch away from offering local phone service to residential customers, and is now only offering local plans to business customers. I can see why, when you consider that 90% of the online residential orders that were placed with Cleartel fell through, either for bad credit, or bad credit. Did I say Bad Credit yet?
Hopefully the move to Cleartel’s online business customer signup only will take care of that mess, since the bad credit costs on the residential customers, who signed up online, is the reason that Cleartel got rid of most of their online agents.
For those of you who are interested, I checked local service business rates with Cleartel this morning, for a customer in Illinois, and the rates were pretty good. Cleartel offered 2 local calling plans to choose from. The firsts was $29.95 per month for unlimited local calling plus 2 phone features. And they offered a second plan that added 2000 minutes of monthly long distance to the service for only an additional $10.00 per month. If you used all the minutes, that would be like getting your long distance service for 2 cents per minute.
If you’re a business customer, and your interested in getting some local service quotes, you might want to get one from Cleartel to see if they can save you some money.
Tags: Cleartel, local business plans
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April 1st, 2009
If you live in one of the 14 states that Qwest services, then I found a deal for you. Qwest customers, who have Qwest local service, can get unlimited long distance service for $15.00 per month.
Qwest’s 14 states are Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. If you don’t have their local service, and still want their unlimited long distance phone service, you can get it for $25.00 per month.
Tags: Local Phone Service, Qwest, Unlimited Long Distance
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February 28th, 2009
Utah is getting a new area code Tomorrow, that will overlay the existing 801 area code in Salt Lake City and other areas of the state. The new area code is 385, and will be added because the old area code, 801, no longer had enough numbers available to cover the growth in telecommunications devices.
What the new number means is that customers will now have to dial all 10 digits in a telephone number to make a local call. When there was only one area code, there was no need to dial the area code because the local phone companies knew a call was local because of how it was dialed.
Now, the only difference between dialing local and dialing long distance will be the preceeding 1 needed for long distance calls. Here is more information about Utah’s New Area Code , and if you need more, you can check your local phone company’s website or give them a call.
Tags: 385, area-code, Local Phone Service, utah, Utah 385 area code
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February 2nd, 2009
There is a really great article about AT&T’s local phone service posted at The Content Wrangler, and written by Scott Abel. According to Scott, AT&T will send you a coupon for local phone service, and even take your order and give you a telephone number, in an area of the state they don’t cover. Then send you a welcome letter hoping that you are enjoying your new service, even though they never turned it on.
Then, when you call to ask why your service isn’t working, they have the audacity to tell you that you must have called Verizon, not them, because AT&T doesn’t provide service in your area. LOL
I love AT&T, they screw up so much that it makes selling other discount carriers a breeze. Everyone else is cheaper than they are, and has better customer service. Drop me a line about what you think of AT&T.
Tags: AT&T, Local Phone Service
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January 9th, 2009
Does anyone know where I can find some good local phone services to sell online? I get pretty good traffic to the local services page, but I only have 2 POTS services to sell, and all the rest are VoIP. While there’s nothing wrong with VoIP, lots of people don’t trust it yet, or they don’t have the high speed internet connections that are needed to utilize it.
If you know of any good local service plans that take online orders, drop me a line so that I can add them to the local phone service page.
Thanks,
Tags: Local Phone Service, phone, pots, service
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