Phone companies/services

[love2travel]

Hey,
Does anyone out there know of local land-line phone companies that service Sebastopol? I want to move away from AT&T, and not in the Comcast direction! I wish to stay with land-line not internet phone services.
Thanks in advance. Love2travel

[Sara S]

Well, not exactly local, but when I decided to dump AT&T I went to Working Assets (recently renamed Credo) on the recommendation of a neighbor, and I have been delighted with both my service and with what they do: a percentage of all revenue goes to a large variety of progressive causes, almost all of which I'm happy to help.

AND: when you sign on, you get a free pint of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream every month for a year! AND if you say I sent you, I'll get one every month for 6 months!!




Hey,
Does anyone out there know of local land-line phone companies that service Sebastopol? I want to move away from AT&T, and not in the Comcast direction! I wish to stay with land-line not internet phone services.
Thanks in advance. Love2travel

["Mad" Miles]

The only land-line phone company in Sonoma County (or for that matter pretty much all of California if not the rest of the West Coast) is AT&T.

Credo/Working Assetts is only for long distance. And they, along with every other long distance provider, require a "local" phone company account (i.e. AT&T) to piggyback off of.

Other options are cable and cell.

I suppose if you have some internet connection not dependent on phone lines, such as T1, you would have other "land line" telephone options.

If anything I've just written is inaccurate, please correct me. (Gently, if you can.) I am not a telecommunications expert, just a local consumer.

"Mad" Miles

:burngrnbounce:

[Sara S]

(Gently...) Out where I live, the lines are maintained by Verizon, and before them it was ConTel, and yes, I have to pay them for that; but almost all of my calls are what they call "local long distance," and for that, as well as for "long" long distance, it was always AT&T. Now I have Working Assets (now Credo).

As I remember, there are other areas around California which are also serviced by the smaller companies.

If you're in town, though, I guess you do have to have AT&T for the basic charge; you can switch all the rest to whatever company you want, though.


The only land-line phone company in Sonoma County (or for that matter pretty much all of California if not the rest of the West Coast) is AT&T.

Credo/Working Assetts is only for long distance. And they, along with every other long distance provider, require a "local" phone company account (i.e. AT&T) to piggyback off of.

Other options are cable and cell.

I suppose if you have some internet connection not dependent on phone lines, such as T1, you would have other "land line" telephone options.

If anything I've just written is inaccurate, please correct me. (Gently, if you can.) I am not a telecommunications expert, just a local consumer.

"Mad" Miles

:burngrnbounce:

[Dynamique]

Credo (nee Working Assets) also has cellular phone service. They use Sprint's network to carry the traffic, so it is free of the evil AT&T empire.

Credo also offers a cellphone contract that sends a portion of your fees directly to Democracy for America, the progressive organization started by Howard Dean. Awesome!


The only land-line phone company in Sonoma County (or for that matter pretty much all of California if not the rest of the West Coast) is AT&T.

Credo/Working Assetts is only for long distance. And they, along with every other long distance provider, require a "local" phone company account (i.e. AT&T) to piggyback off of.