• BoofStroke
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    5 months ago

    Dating when each sms cost $.20 was rough. In the long ago, BBS numbers were all long distance from our house.

    • Refurbished Refurbisher
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      185 months ago

      Long distance was always a massive scam by the phone companies. Glad that’s gone (now to do the same with international calls)

        • @[email protected]
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          5 months ago

          Also when you do cap the line, it would make a lot more sense to make the limit dynamic and local.

          As in: “you’re hogging the connection, let’s take a break for now” - and not: “you watched a movie in HD and forgot you weren’t on wifi. The logical thing to do is to cut your entire mobile internet connection for a full month, unless you pay us extortion money”

      • @[email protected]
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        45 months ago

        International calls are only expensive if you don’t know what you’re doing. Just use WhatsApp or any other VoIP provider. Who are you calling on landlines anyway?

        Hint for those visiting a foreign country: just get a weekly data plan for like $8 and use Google Voice or WhatsApp to call home. Need an unlocked phone for that though.

        • @Meowoem
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          15 months ago

          That is good advice for visiting most countries, America it’s crazily complex and expensive to get a phone especially if you don’t have an address and American ID. It was cheaper to buy a cheap phone in the UK and connect to someone with decent roaming charges than it was to get a phone in the US