jgrove24@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> CANTON, OHIO -- A widow rented rotary dial telephones for 42 years,
> paying what her family calculates as thousands of dollars for now
> outdated phones.
>
I didn't find out until pawing through his papers after his death last
January that my 82 year old father was paying ATT long distance
connection charges he never used, about $15 to $25/month over the years,
added on by Bell$outh. My calls to ATT about them ripping him off, of
course, fell on deaf ears.
If anyone has an elderly parent, you need to go over their phone bills
every month to prevent this. Telephone employees call them to sell them
many services they don't need, slamming if you will. Dad paid Bell$outh
for "maintenance" of his 32' long phone wire to one outlet, some god-
awful monthly service fee to "guarantee good service". It's a goddamned
pair of cheap wires and a cheap plastic socket screwed to the baseboard!
More tech savvy children of the elderly can put a stop to it. Some of
his telephone bills were over $190 just because he was still using Bell
$outh long distance ripoffs, not some cheap 5c/min aftermarket company
they made him believe would be intermittent and impossible to hear, which
is bull****, of course.
Ask your dad to see his phone bill. It's too late to ask mine.
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