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It’s always distressing to see expensive phone service bills. The good news is that you don’t have to put up with this every month. Here are a few tips to put your phone expenses on a diet.

Understand your bill
If you don’t know the cause, you won’t find a solution. Getting to know your phone bill is the first step to knowing which additional features you can do away with. Usual add-ons would be call forwarding, three way calling, long distance charges, caller ID and call blocking.

Decide if you can cut out and restrict some features
The concept is simple, if you hardly use it, you don’t need it. While it might give you some sense of security to have an all-in-one phone service, it’s also not practical and wise if it’s causing you worries. If you know that someone’s been taking advantage of long distance and cell phone calling features, ask your carrier to block these services.

Bundle up on your services
If it’s essential that you have broadband, landline and cable, get all these services from one provider. They usually offer big discounts if you sign-up to more than one of their services.
Go unlimited on your most-used features
If you need to call long distance all the time, ask your service provider for a quote on unlimited long distance calling. The same goes for faxing and outbound calls to cell phones.

Consider your alternatives
Go out of your comfort zone and compare phone service providers. You can do away with your suspicions of other providers by checking out their websites and asking for objective reviews from people you know. You can also mull over your other choices for adding phone features, like using a phone card for long distance calling. Also, you can consider moving to a VoIP provider since their services are more affordable and already cover the necessary phone service features like voicemail, Internet faxing, long distance calling, call forwarding, to name a few.