World's worst phone bill? Not anymore!
CUB Outreach Director Sarah Moskowitz showed Dennis Pransky how to cut his monthly phone bill by $100 a month.
“We won’t be paying a phone bill for the next 18 months,” said the self-employed landscaper.
That’s because CUB Outreach Director Sarah Moskowitz, who analyzed Pransky’s bill, spotted multiple overcharges, including a $19.99 third-party "cramming" charge for services the Plainfield man never received. But that wasn’t all. Pransky was also paying for a high-speed Internet connection—even though he already had Internet service through another company.
Moskowitz helped Pransky remove both the Internet and the cramming charge from his bill, and negotiate a credit for the months he paid them.
On top of that, Pransky was paying for a bloated local and long-distance calling plan, and could save big bucks by downsizing to a more fitting AT&T Consumer’s Choice local calling plan, with Pioneer Telephone for long distance.
The Consumer’s Choice plans were originally designed by CUB under a legal settlement with the phone company, and prices have been frozen through at least June of 2013 as a result of the recently-passed Illinois Telecommunications Act.
Pioneer Telephone offers local toll and long-distance rates of just 2 to 3 cents per minute, and offers a $10 “CUB credit” for new customers.
Making those changes netted Pransky big-time savings.
“We’re easily saving $100 a month,” he said. “It worked out really well.”
The next pest Pransky hopes to tackle? His cell-phone bill.
If you want Illinois' top tips for cutting your telecom costs, visit CUB's Phone Savings Center. And, if CUB helps trim your phone bill, please consider sharing your savings with CUB to help spread our money-saving message.
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