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Meanwhile in Spain: past month I finally convinced my mother that they should give up the land line for good. She uses Internet through the cell phone only, whe
by narag 4y ago
Meanwhile in Spain: past month I finally convinced my mother that they should give up the land line for good. She uses Internet through the cell phone only, where it's easy to block all the spam.
The land line calls were mostly spam, mostly from established companies, and some scams. A side effect: they went from 70€/month to 15€, 22€ after the first year.
I had got them a 35€ contract (land/fiber + 2 cellphones) three or four years ago, but somehow Movistar managed to creep the bill to double and had announced that it will start charging 120€ this year. Because reasons.
- luckylion 4y agoProtecting your parents from scam & spam will matter a lot in the future. I've trained my mother on erring on the side of not believing whatever the email or person on the phone says and calling me to verify. It works great, she'll happily take a note from them e.g. when her mobile provider (or someone claiming to be her provider...) calls and asks how I can reach them. The legit calls will be happy to provide a callback number, and the other ones will give up when she's persistent that she can't help them. They'll move on to easier victims. The cost cutting can be immense as you mentioned. Plenty of people have ancient contracts that they never changed.