Are The Kids Running Up Your Phone Bill?
_Home Phone service or Landlines are becoming more expensive, the more features we add. By the time you add call waiting, caller ID, and all the other features you may find your home phone bill may be over $60-80 per month for a phone that mainly the kids are in control of.
Many parents are opting for a professional answering service for their home phone, which allows more peace in the home at night, and gives teenagers more time to work on homework, or forces them to use email to talk with their friends.
Many parents may eliminate the home phone or landline, and look at cell phone service to receive their important calls. Kids that are old enough to talk on the phone and call their friends are getting the prepaid cell phones that allow them to call and talk to their friends for a dollar a day.
These can be purchased and maintained by allowing the child to do chores around the house for allowance, or get after school jobs such as mowing lawns or babysitting.
By eliminating the home phone or landline, parents are not disturbed all night with the phone ringing from other teenagers and having them tie up the line. Often, the parents are opting for professional answering services to handle their calls, and then they can call and get the messages after peak hours.
A professional answering service can screen out phone solicitors, and sales people you don’t want to talk to. Also, a professional answering service has several operators and lines where they can handle multiple calls, if they come in at the same time. You can instruct them on how you want the phone answered, and even come up with catchy greetings, if you desire.
By eliminating the home phone line, it can save on long distance and operator information calls. Many teenagers pick up the phone and call information for a number because they may have a hard time finding it in the phone book. These calls now cost a couple dollars apiece.
Kids that may have been using the land line or home phone to make long distance calls, may have free long distance on their prepaid cell phone and some cell phone plans offer directory assistance at a reduced cost or for free.
Parents often have free long distance, as well, and the cost of a professional answering service may be less than a home phone bill would be, especially with different features, long distance and directory assistance calls.
More and more, people are looking at professional answering services to substitute home and business landline service. They are able to integrate it with cell phone service, Voice Over Internet Phones or VOIPS, and email to make their personal and professional life run smoother, and keep the kids from causing them to rack up a large home phone bill.
Professional business people are saved the expense of hiring and training a receptionist, and it allows you to get phone calls 24 hours a day, without disturbing your sleep.
Many parents are opting for a professional answering service for their home phone, which allows more peace in the home at night, and gives teenagers more time to work on homework, or forces them to use email to talk with their friends.
Many parents may eliminate the home phone or landline, and look at cell phone service to receive their important calls. Kids that are old enough to talk on the phone and call their friends are getting the prepaid cell phones that allow them to call and talk to their friends for a dollar a day.
These can be purchased and maintained by allowing the child to do chores around the house for allowance, or get after school jobs such as mowing lawns or babysitting.
By eliminating the home phone or landline, parents are not disturbed all night with the phone ringing from other teenagers and having them tie up the line. Often, the parents are opting for professional answering services to handle their calls, and then they can call and get the messages after peak hours.
A professional answering service can screen out phone solicitors, and sales people you don’t want to talk to. Also, a professional answering service has several operators and lines where they can handle multiple calls, if they come in at the same time. You can instruct them on how you want the phone answered, and even come up with catchy greetings, if you desire.
By eliminating the home phone line, it can save on long distance and operator information calls. Many teenagers pick up the phone and call information for a number because they may have a hard time finding it in the phone book. These calls now cost a couple dollars apiece.
Kids that may have been using the land line or home phone to make long distance calls, may have free long distance on their prepaid cell phone and some cell phone plans offer directory assistance at a reduced cost or for free.
Parents often have free long distance, as well, and the cost of a professional answering service may be less than a home phone bill would be, especially with different features, long distance and directory assistance calls.
More and more, people are looking at professional answering services to substitute home and business landline service. They are able to integrate it with cell phone service, Voice Over Internet Phones or VOIPS, and email to make their personal and professional life run smoother, and keep the kids from causing them to rack up a large home phone bill.
Professional business people are saved the expense of hiring and training a receptionist, and it allows you to get phone calls 24 hours a day, without disturbing your sleep.