{"id":133,"date":"2008-02-06T22:37:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T04:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.omnux.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/06\/mci-long-distance\/"},"modified":"2012-11-26T14:37:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T20:37:49","slug":"mci-long-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.omnux.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/06\/mci-long-distance\/","title":{"rendered":"MCI Long Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many moons ago, I chose MCI as my long distance carrier of choice. I don’t even remember why. They had some deal going at the time where I paid 2 or 3 bucks a month and got long distance call for a couple of pennies a minute or something. Distant history, and not really important. When I got my cell phone with free long distance, I didn’t need to make calls from my home phone anymore, so I switched to a plan from MCI that didn’t cost any money per month, but the calls were more expensive per minute. No big deal, since I wasn’t making calls from the landline anyway.<\/p>\n

At some point a few years back, the MCI computer system was screwed up and decided that it owed me a penny one month. I had autodebit going from my credit card, so a 1 penny credit showed up on my credit card. And, the same thing happened the next month. And the next. Here we are, 3 or 4 years later, and I’m maybe 30 or 40 cents richer. Needless to say, I haven’t made any long distance calls. I’m sure that if I had, the 1 penny thing would have sorted itself out.<\/p>\n

Postcard from MCI<\/a>Yesterday, I received this postcard in the mail. Seems that MCI doesn’t feel rich enough. Effective on the first of next month, MCI is going to start charging a minimum $5.99 per month for the enjoyment of having their service. Plus all applicable taxes, fees, and surcharges. <\/p>\n

I bounced over to MCI’s website to see if they had any sort of announcement for this. I didn’t find anything (imagine that!) So, I figured I should tell the world via my blog. Consider yourself told. While I was at MCI, I looked over their long distance plans to see if they had some special “no minimum monthly charge” plan. I didn’t find one. I did learn that the surcharges on most of the other plans amount to probably $10 a month. If that holds for my plan, that means that I’d be paying $16 a month for long distance on my landline, which I haven’t used in 3 years or so.<\/p>\n

So long, MCI.<\/p>\n

Good riddance, hasta la vista, bon voyage, and adios.<\/p>\n

I’m now in the hunt for a new long distance company. Alternatively, some people in town apparently don’t have a long distance carrier at all. I might do that. I need to have long distance for the rare case where I might need to fax something from my fax machine. But, I can use a 10-10 number or something and come out far ahead of where MCI has dropped me off at.<\/p>\n

Gotta love big business. I guess it makes sense that they wouldn’t care about me since I’m not making them any money. They won’t miss me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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