You Know What Would Be Nice? Not Paying For Cell Phone Service.

Despite the plethora of ways we can communicate with one another over the internet, we all still seem to be very attached to our cell phones (for now anyway). As we leave landlines behind we have begun to look for convenient and cheap ways to talk to one another. Even though we have changing attitudes about phone service, many of us are not making the switch to ditch our cell phones all together for internet based phone service largely because we feel it is not convenient enough or because we don't know enough about it.

Yesterday, Google announced improvements to their Google Voice service that would allow callers to keep their existing phone number, make conference calls, send SMS via email in addition to many other features. If Google Voice isn't enough, iNum announced today that it will be bringing HD voice calling to Skype. iNum is a global internet calling service that allows callers to easily make calls to and from all over the world. This news probably means that the "it's poor quality sound" reason why you don't save money by making your calls online, won't be a legitimate reason for much longer.



I have to admit I am incredibly cheap. I hate paying my phone bill. I've been able to stop paying for cable and I feel great about that, but I hesitate to ditch my cell phone. And for what? So that I can pay 55 bucks a month to worry about going over my minutes and text allowance? Or is it just because not enough people would be willing to ditch their phones with me? Well, fuck the phone companies! To hell with them! There is obviously no reason why I should be paying for their overpriced service anymore. Yeah, I'm getting rid of my phone... tomorrow. Or the next day. I promise.