Subj : luckymobile offers and landlines..
To   : Rob Mccart
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Aug 10 2025 10:47:00

Hello Rob!

** On Saturday 09.08.25 - 09:10, you wrote to me:

 RM> I was just on the web site checking out their plans and there's
 RM> nothing there worth changing over to. ...

Yep.. plan offerings seem to have remained the same for a while  
now.

 RM> Actually, I don't think they even offer my plan anymore,
 RM> nothing much under $50 that gives everything I have that
 RM> isn't just for new customers.

Correct.  I have a $15/mo plan (which was originally voice +  
500MB data) ..but then they offered an option to switch  
entirely to DATA and get double the data, which I did.  Now,  
the 15$/mo plan and any option to go 100% data is long gone for  
new customers.


 AA>> Good to hear that they threw in the USA calling.  It's not
 >> available like that anymore.  Now, it's a special add-on.

 RM> Yes, I looked for that as well tonight and, you're right, no
 RM> plans offer it as part of the basic.

The usa-calling can be handy when some contacts inherit phones  
from outside the country. That can be the case especially when  
people travel during the summer.  I have one contact that  
recently moved from usa to canada.  They are still operating  
with T-Mobile. 1-410-845-XXXX (probably no roaming charges?)  
...and that's a call to the states that I can't do.


 AA>> Speaking of USA-calling, I recently looked to sign up a senior
 >> friend to NonameMobile.  They advertised (and still do) a $19/
 >> mo that includes USA-calling.  So, I purchased the NonameMobile
 >> SIM. ...

 RM> Yes, you see those $19 signs in the stores all the time.
 RM> It looks like a great deal - I was tempted to switch but hate
 RM> changing from something that's working well for me for a couple
 RM> of dollars a month - but I never checked into it far enough
 RM> to find out what you did.

A friend of mine is encouring to me call Nonamemobile (I will  
reach a PCmobile rep, btw) .. nd cry foul for false advertising  
and insisting that they give me the USA-calling as advertised.


 AA>> For me, the situation simply started getting worse and worse.
 >> I have an underground feed from a pole on the property but ..

 RM> I'm surprised I don't have more problems.. The phone line is above
 RM> ground and looks to be in terrible condition and I'm probably
 RM> close to 2 miles from the Bell Box. To clarify, only the line to
 RM> my house is ratty.

It's probably getting a good chance to dry out faster than if  
it were underground.  I have a friend in the Muskokas who also  
had a land line for a while, and Bell simply left the run from  
the road to the house just laying on the ground beside the  
driveway.  Worked well.  Rarely a problem.  The landline  
service is long gone based on some dispute with charges years  
ago though.


 RM> The main line is in that heavy phone cable that
 RM> they run. Seems to me a while back when they worked on mine it had
 RM> to do with ground wires at my house. If I recall, there were two of
 RM> them and he ended up cutting one of them to fix things.

I think one cable like that has 4 pairs (tip-ring) to work with  
as substitutes before they have to replace the whole cable.

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