Hi George, DH & I also got fed up with the LD providers. We now use cell phones for making long distance calls and use the land lines for local and incoming calls. It's only been a couple of months but seems to be working OK so far. We looked at a bunch of providers and chose one which had a good family plan and wide coverage (Verizon). Sherryl At 12:59 PM 05/15/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Okay, here's the deal. My LD telephone provider of many years was sold to >MCI. MCI is raising the >rate by 3 cents per minute plus some other charges. Anyone got a favorite >provider that isn't 12 >cents a minute? I've found a couple via the web but am not sure about their >reliability. > >Mandatory gardening content: I need the long distance to buy seeds by phone >and the web. B-) > >George