Originally Posted by gfretwell
AllTel still supports my analog phone but I got the impression when I was there setting up a flip phone account for my wife, that they hope I will die.
He pulled up my account and gave me the "Oh you are the one" kinda look.
$15 a month and 20 cents a minute. My bill is always about $23 with all the taxes.


Your analog account will probably go away in Feb 2008, when the carriers have permission to pull the plug on analog cellular service.

The sunset date is Feb 18, 2008, unless it get extended.

The cellular companies want to kill it ASAP, as it takes up channel capacity that can be used more efficiently with digital technologies.

The alarm industry wants to keep it alive for another couple years, citing a shortage of available equipment to replace existing analog components, and a lack of equipment supporting non-GSM systems.