8th May 2006

You, You, You

This is a bit of a shameless plug, but bear with me. Landa and I just switched our long distance phone provider to 3U Telecom. Why, and why should you give a blip?

Well, we were with Sprint. Now, I’ve had Sprint since I moved to Sheffield and have loved them, they’ve been very good to me. Reliable, decent rates, etc. However, now that I use VoIP for a lot of our calling and so forth, our monthly costs have gone down. Now the $12 that we pay to Sprint just to stay with them is prohibitively expensive. That’s just for fees, no calling.

So, I found 3U. Here’s the features:

  • No monthly fees at all. If you don’t call, you don’t pay a red cent.
  • 1 second billing. This means that if you talk for 20 seconds, you pay for 20 seconds. Most companies do 60 second billing — talk for 20 seconds, pay for 60. Makes the difference if you make a lot of short calls.
  • Great rates. 6.9 cents in-state and 4.8 cents state-to-state. International rates are down around 5 cents for Australia, and similar for other countries. Sprint does 7/7 and 12 cents Australia.
  • Calling cards cost the same as regular calls.
  • They have an access number so you can make long-distance calls from any phone, anywhere in the States, and have them put on your home phone bill at the same rates.

    So, we switched, and it’s been great so far. This months we’ve called about 27 minutes for a total of $2.04. Not bad.

    So, if you’re interested in it, you can find their website by clicking here.

    Disclaimer: If you click on the link, and sign up, I get a referral fee, just so you know. I’m not in this so much for the money as I am for getting people low bills. I hate bills. Low bills are good.

    • Posted: on Monday, May 8th, 2006 at 23:19.
    Filed under: Money/Finances.
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