Cell Phones

[Dean May]

>>I've split the difference. I keep my land line because I've had the same 
>>number for 27 years, but I auto-forward all incoming calls to my cell 
>>phone.

You can port your land line number to a cell phone and cancel the land line.
My brother has done this, and I know others who have. If you do that with
your business line you will lose your "free" yellow page listing. 

Dean
Dean May             cell 812.239.3359
PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272
Terre Haute IN  47802


-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Mark Schecter
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 1:48 PM
To: joegarrett at earthlink.net; Pianotech List
Subject: Re: Cell Phones


John Formsma wrote:
> I recently canceled my home line and have begun to use the cell phone
> exclusively. For the last 1.5 years, I've had my cell phone number on my
> invoices as the only contact number. This way, people can contact me
> directly and not have to leave a message at home. I carry the cell with
me,
> though.

and Joseph Garrett wrote:
> John,
> That's all well and good...unless you live/work in an area that is what 
> I call "Cell/Hell". A lot of my clients live in the Pucker Brush. Of 
> course, you can have the Voice Mail thingee, but you first have to be in 
> an area that has a Signal, so that you can call them back! I will go 
> several days where I'm in areas that my cell has no signal! Soooo....I 
> have to wait until I'm home to call back. (My cell phone gets no signal 
> at home, either!) For all of you Big City types, I guess a Cell is the 
> way to go, however.

I've split the difference. I keep my land line because I've had the same 
number for 27 years, but I auto-forward all incoming calls to my cell 
phone. If I don't answer the cell for whatever reason (busy, range, 
etc.) the call goes to voice mail. I don't have a physical answering 
machine at all, and for (I think) $2/month, I can access voice mail from 
any land line anywhere.

Outgoing long-distance calls I make from the cell for no charge except 
usage of prepaid minutes, and no charge for anything at all after 7pm. 
By keeping the same land line, I can change cell phone numbers with very 
little impact, except to people who recognize my calls by my caller ID.

In the future, I might take my land line number and transfer it to my 
cell, if they'll let me do that with a business line, but so far haven't 
pressed it because I have my broadband internet through that land line 
number, and frankly I don't feel like working through the inevitable 
reconfiguration hassles of moving the internet to the non-business line.

-Mark Schecter