Re: Phone to the Phils


"Dirty Sick Pig" wrote
Charles Manoras wrote:
Which cheap solutions (or at least low cost) are you using to call
your relatives/family in the Phils?

Land lines but mostly cell phones.

Skype, Vonage, Owtel or something else?

I am tired to pay large amounts to the usual extortionists
(AT&T, Verizon etc.)

Thank you.

Instead of using cotton string, I suggest Dacron fishing line. Stretched
tightly between two tin cans, of course.
Dang, mon, if you're too cheap to pay for your overseas calls and would
rather vent your angst (for your lack of disposable income for phone
calls) on your service providers, stop placing overseas calls. Ever heard
of e-mail, private forums and chat?

You obviously are not Filipino or have not been to the Phils since very
early last century.

Not everybody in the Phils lives in a penthouse atop a Makati skyscraper
or a gated community in the hills overlooking Cebu.

Elderly people (even when they have the means) are not always able or
willing to use computers, this can happen anywhere.

It's my elderly relatives I am talking about, they live in a very smalltown,
if not a village.

Their only means of communication is a cell phone.

They are computer adverse.

They need a lot of verbal support, their medical conditions have to be
checked frequently, they need to be reminded about medications etc.

Also emergencies do arise.

One is diabetic, the other has a heart condition.

It's a little hard to do this by remote control and expensive too.

We average 2 to 3 calls a day, 200$ a month is average.

Of course you yourself have broadband, a very large income plus an
array of fancy laptops, notebooks, peripherals, iphones, blackberries,
gps and what not to communicate with yr cronies world wide.

Your limo is waiting, please return yo your Beverly Hills mansion ASAP.

The one McCain let you have cheap, the one he got way back at the time of
the S&L engineered fiasco and which has become a little too hot these days
of course.

Your financial counselor there has a very nice plan concerning the
diversification of your telecom assets in SE Asia to which you should
pay attention.











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