who does everyone use for residential telephone lines?
which company is cheapest for long distance?

i have a bell residential line and use Yak for long distance
5 cents in north america
9 cents to uk

Bell Residential....there isnt a lot of choice where I am
Sprint long distance (& Dial Up internet )
Optimal Global plan ($1 a month fee...why bother for a buck!)
5c UK anytime
5c NAmerica weekends evening, 10c daytime

Not had any problems with Sprint long distance so cant comment on customer service..the internet call center was quick and efficient though.

Started with regular Bell...V expensive, tried Primus for a while, cheapish, but needed to dial out through an access number which was a bit inconvenient, and often got busy signal. Sprint was just as cheap, so went with them, and bundled dial up access deal is cheap ($12 or 15 a month). We dont call LD during the daytime much, so 5c UK 5c NAmerica cheeper than Yak...who Ive only just heard of.

Where I live (Toronto) Bell have a year-long introduction plan where the rates are almost as low as YAK.

Theoretically you're supposed to come off it after a year (and they suddenly take you off it and bill you regular rates, so make a note of when you start it) but if you threaten to leave them they put you back on it. It's worked for me for two years now.

Before that I was with Sprint. Their rates were OK but if you ever had a question, phoning their call centre was an awful experience. It sometimes took me 45 minutes to get through. You's complain and they'd deny there was a problem. At least Bell answer right away when you've got a problem or a billing enquiry. I looked at Primus once a while ago and for some reason it didn't appeal to me.

Before that I used YAK, which was great.

I use the Bell card too in Canada or the U.S. but be careful about using it abroad, you'll get really stung. They charge you as if it's a person-to-person call. I always find the best thing abroad is to pick up a local phone card as soon as possible.

I don't have a landline, but I do have a cityfido cellphone. Basically it means that pretty much of the GTA is local rather than long distance for me. Which is good as I commute from one local area to another everyday, and a lot of my calls are outside my local area.

All for the handy price of $45 per month. International calls rates are pretty reasonable too, but I use an international bulk call carrier for those. Just 2c to phone the UK.

HTH

Sarah

Why you don't try "First Choice"? It gives you UK calls for as low as 2.2 c/min. We are using it for more than six months and couldn't be happier. No hidden charges, no extra fees. And no need to go to a shop, you can buy it over the net and the PIN will be emailed in a few minutes to you.

http://www.torontocallingcards.com/e...ct.php?card=51

Boy, that IS cheap for a cellphone. I thought long distance costs would be out of this world on a cell. I haven't even bothered to enquire because I assumed it would be too expensive for me to want to do it.

I use Sprint for long distance. I pay $22.95 for unlimited calls 24/7 to Canada and the US. and I pay 5 cents a minute for calls to England.

I had thought about a Vonage VOIP phone and getting a phone number in BC so I could talk to either my sister or my friend in BC as local calls. But so far as I recall it was more expensive than the $22.95 I pay to Sprint so it wasn't worth it.

We have to use Sasktel for local calls here.

Since Rogers bought Microcell/Fido they have started to change the rules of the game, and actually KILLING Fido and its popular FidoCity plan.