Telecom fixed line telephone costs?

[NickZ]

Originally Posted by rosietat

Since I am not a business my costs will not be anything like yours Sebastiano.
So far I have been told to connect my phone to conferm my new telephone number??? But I have nothing to connect it to yet.

Connect? Or did they send you a number to call? They sent me a number to call. The way I understand it if you had a old connection just calling the automated number would be enough to get the service turned back on. If they sent you a number you can't call it from a cell. Call Telecom direct. 187 I guess

[deborahandricky]

Originally Posted by Sebastiano

Unlike most people here who seem to want a land line at all costs we will be getting it removed the unsustainably high costs cannot today be justified and as most of the mobile cell phone operators have a decent signal here we will go onto these for internet too.
last month's bill (as a business operator it costs us more ) were as follows:
line 1. normal house use (hardly any use!) Euro 68.
line 2. dedicated fax line (lot of use) Euro 109,50.
line 3. dedicated internet line (they take 3 months in advance) Euro 204,50.
line 4. office line Euro 539,00( this because they "finally" debited six months of calls to netherlands all at once)
total bill April 2008 Euro 921,00.

suggestion :stick with a cell phone and use skype/voip etc for distance calls.

HI
You might also want to look at efax and popfax.com.........cheap email to fax services.........good luck

[attrezzista]

Don't do it!! We had terrible experiences with Telecom Italia, and we're not by any means the only ones. I point blank refuse to have a fixed Telecom line in our new house. We have used Skype on a wireless internet connection with mixed results, and for important calls use the mobiles. If all else fails, you can always write - although my experiences with the Poste Italiana haven't exactly been perfect either!!!

Stuart

[elliven]

I think it's count my blessings time! We were offered connection at 150 euros for distance of 100 metres or 400 euros for more and were charged 150 for what I thought a v generous 100 mtrs of wire. As for ADSL, we have it and it works well enough even tho we are a fair way from the exchange.

[rosietat]

Well. I've now got my fixed line which has ADSL built in. I have signed up to Teleconomy Internazionale for 10 euro per month dial UK Europe USA and Canada unlimited calls, so I am happy with that. I'm hoping the cost will be as in the telephone directory: 96 euro + 124 euro per 200 metres of cable + 50 euro for my Alice Free which includes modem, CD and 3 connectors. Since I am not sure when the free calls will activate as the site tells me it's in lavorazione, my family are ringing me from Uk using call2.com for about 3p per minute. I'm not complaining about Telecom yet!!