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.