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Things I wish I’d known about AT&T U-Verse before I signed up

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:43:06 +0000

As I wrote earlier this week, I’m a new AT&T U-Verse customer. Prior to that, I was using old-school POTS with a DSL connection. Between the phone service, DSL, and long-distance calls, I was spending around $75 a month. So

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The Western Electric 500

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:56:20 +0000

Another year, another cordless telephone/answering machine.

I bought a cordless phone to replace an aging and failing 2.4 GHz model this week. Our luck with modern phones makes me long for the old days.

I like the old Western Electric 500 (also known simply as "The Bell Phone") because it was specifically designed not to break.

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Western Electric rotary phone tips and tricks

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:45:15 +0000

I heard on the radio this morning about an 82-year-old who up until two months ago was still paying AT&T $29.10 a month to lease a rotary phone.

I'm just barely old enough to remember those arrangements--when the government broke up the AT&T monopoly (the first time, before it rebuilt itself) consumers were given the option to opt-out. They could even buy the phones they had been leasing, if they desired--or they could return them.

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