Hey! What's On Your Phone Bill?

I was recently talking to my fiance, and she told me of a story in the news about a little old lady who recently received a very shocking revelation. This lady, from Ohio, recently check her phone bill and discovered she had a $30 quarterly charge for rental of a rotary telephone. Ok, not too odd right? Well according to the lady, the charge has been there for more than 60 years, even though the service was upgraded to touch tone more than 30 years ago. Here is a lady who never had a reason to question her phone company, because she never really experienced any issued with her service.By calculations, over the course of 30 plus years that quarterly $30 charges totalled to be more than $3600 in unnecessary revenue for the phone company. And she is not alone.

In talking with my fiance, I discovered that there people in South Carolina who are paying monthly or quarterly rental fees for a rotary phone equipment that they either are not aware of, or just plain no longer have. By phone company estimates there are at least 40 million documented people who were leasing rotary phones, and that number supposedly dropped to 750,000 since September 14 of 2006. Just think if all 750,000 were paying $30 quarterly for at least 20 years. That would equal to $1,800,000,000.00 in free money just given away to the phone company. Donald Trump, eat your heart out.

That is an aweful lot of money to just throw away. Think of all of the nice cars and houses, and Christmas gifts that could have been bought with that money. I can not state this enough, check you bills carefully each month.

Just a public service announcement.