Full Version: Home based phone question
From: John (JOHNRMONTG) [#18]
7 Aug 2006
To: PenMan [#13] 8 Aug 2006
From: UncleSteve [#19]
7 Aug 2006
To: aallen [#15] 8 Aug 2006
We have a phone line from Cablevision and it comes in over our cable connection. It is a flat rate per month and works great as long as there is electricity AND the cable bill is paid... LOL!
From: aallen [#20]
8 Aug 2006
To: Upacreek [#16] 8 Aug 2006
Michel,
Thanks, this helps me some. I think I need to look into an antenna and a phone to match. I would really like to change the phone services around some. I will check them out again and see what I can find.
Thanks
aleta
From: aallen [#21]
8 Aug 2006
To: Mike (MIKEN) [#17] 8 Aug 2006
Mike,
You are right, I am with your sister, just a few miles off the track. I have tried Tmobile, that works sometimes and not others. I just had cingular, that worked pretty good, but they are kicking me off for using too many minutes off of their networks! Wish they had told me that in the beginning, as I would have told them I wasn't on their network area. I am sometimes, it depends on where I stand in my house!
I have checked a few people, it seems in our area, there isn't any one that covers it all. My husband works for the state KDOT, and there is many areas he has no service.
I guess we will have to find one that does most but not all. Until they decide we need coverage up here. :S
Thanks for the info,
aleta
From: aallen [#22]
8 Aug 2006
To: UncleSteve [#19] 8 Aug 2006
I would love to try the phone on the internet, but, internet is just as bad in our area as cell phones! :'-(
I would love to go with DSL or something else, as our landline internet is not very fast, infact, really slow! They say give them time and we will be able to get DSL. But not yet.
The sad thing with all this is , we are only 30 miles from Topeka! But I guess that is far enough!
I will keep looking into the phone on internet once internet is better.
Thanks,
aleta
From: Barbara (RGILE) [#23]
8 Aug 2006
To: basehorawards [#1] 8 Aug 2006
I am not a home base business, but I do use the cell phone as my main business line, for that reason alone. I have answered the phone, at home, in the car, while on vacation, in supermarkets, etc. I did this because I do not want to miss even one call. I am fairly new to the area, 1.5 year and am still building the business, and it's important to get all calls.
I am glad to hear another person going out of their way to accomodate customers. They are your livelihood and you need all of them.
When she called at 9:45 in the evening, I am sure she thought she would probably get a voice message, and would have left a message for you, this way, you got to speak to her right away, and got the job.
Good for you, and I hope she remain one of your best.
Barbara
From: Mike (MIKEN) [#24]
8 Aug 2006
To: aallen [#22] 8 Aug 2006
But if you look at the coverage maps for all the companies the plains states are not well covered.
From: aallen [#25]
8 Aug 2006
To: Mike (MIKEN) [#24] 8 Aug 2006
Mike,
Thanks, I will check them out. Yes, the plains are a hard area to cover.
Thanks,
aleta
From: Kathy (CWSPEC) [#26]
8 Aug 2006
To: aallen [#25] 8 Aug 2006
From: basehorawards [#27]
8 Aug 2006
To: aallen [#25] 8 Aug 2006
Aleta,
When I go to see my mom in Onaga I usually have pretty good coverage with Cingular everywhere along the way except around Holt and Mayeta. In our house on the farm south of Onaga we have to go the bay window or outside for good signal but the house is in a valley so that is not too hard to understand. I have always had good luck with Cingular and have been with them for as long as I have had a cell phone. I just recently took a group of Boy Scouts and dads up there to camp. Two of us had Cingular with the other four dads having one of three other providers. Cingular was the only one with a reliable signal.
From: aallen [#28]
8 Aug 2006
To: basehorawards [#27] 8 Aug 2006
Yes, don't you love that dead spot around mayetta! :S
I have cingular, it does most of the time have service. But, they informed us we have only a few more weeks or less, to get new coverage, as we use too many minutes not on their network. We didn't even know there were networks until they told us and now our phone reads off network or on cingular. I would have stayed with them, I even added another phone just 3 months ago!
Well, I think I will do some looking into other companies fast, but also this antenna for houses and maybe look into the satelite for internet and try a internet phone. Several things to check on. :S
You will have to stop by sometime on your way to Onaga!
Aleta
From: aallen [#29]
8 Aug 2006
To: Kathy (CWSPEC) [#26] 8 Aug 2006
Kathy,
That is something that might work for several on here. Thanks for the info.
Aleta
From: Mick [#30]
8 Aug 2006
To: aallen [#28] 8 Aug 2006
Aleta,
I have satellite for the internet (Starband) here at home in the mountains. It sure beats the 24K I used to connect at over the phone lines.
Mick
From: aallen [#31]
8 Aug 2006
To: Mick [#30] 9 Aug 2006
Mick,
I was looking at that last night. It might be one way for me to go. The speed is amazing.
Thanks for the info.
Aleta
From: UCONN Dave & Lynn too (DANDL48) [#32]
8 Aug 2006
To: Mick [#30] 9 Aug 2006
From: Rob (AWARDZZ) [#33]
9 Aug 2006
To: ALL
G'day all;
We are a retail site, open 6 days a week to the public. When we close I fwd. the store # to my cell phone...most of the time no real emergencies.....til this past Sunday. Spending a beautiful day on the links..approx. 1:50pm hole #6,, cell phone vibrates (never have a ringer on a golf course)... it's the sports editor of our local newspaper. The paper is holding a huge softball tournament and presentation is at 4.. we had all ready done the trophies 6'6", 5'6", 48" 38" and team trophies.
Apparently the first place trophy was injured while being removed from his SUV....what can we do.?? I pondered and told him I would get back to him....(did I mention it was a beautiful day, and I was only 4over par).
The guys I'm playing with are like, you're not going into town are you?? You 've got to take one day off....
So after completing 9 holes I left the foursome to meet the customer at the shop...The rods/nut had pulled right through the bottom of the base...I had it fixed in 20 minutes.... add in the 15 from the golf course and 15 back, I was able to rejoin the group and missed only 3 holes...
The customer was blown away by the fact I left a golf match. He explained to me that he knows he can purchase the product elswhere and for a cheaper price.... he also knows that not to many people would drop everything to handle an emergency. We have solidified another years worth of business with the paper (they spend a nice $figure over the year), plus we are being profiled in the sports section as "people you'd like to know".
The best part of the story---- he came in Monday morning with his own check to pay for the order as he didn't want me to wait for the paper to go through their normal chain of command...
My thought is, customers are to damn difficult to get, when we get em, we take care of em... we are def. not the lowest priced discount joint..we have a beautiful showroom and take pride in our service...finally after 13 years it's beginning to pay off (lol)
Have good one and keep smiling
Rob
From: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#34]
9 Aug 2006
To: Rob (AWARDZZ) [#33] 9 Aug 2006
Especially the part about being an overnight success (after 13 years). :-)
So, c'mon. What was your final score, after missing three holes?
From: Rob (AWARDZZ) [#35]
9 Aug 2006
To: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#34] 9 Aug 2006
Thanks Dave;
Hole #10 at Maple Ridge is a par 5 they gave me a 6
#11 par 4 4 (its my fav. hole)
#12 par 3 4 (pond/bunkers)
With the 2 extra strokes my alleged friends are (were) hehe, I wound up with a 82.
Hey Vegas is only 196 days away!!!
Regards
Rob
From: Mick [#36]
9 Aug 2006
To: UCONN Dave & Lynn too (DANDL48) [#32] 9 Aug 2006
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