What you will find below are the best local telephone service providers in the USA. Their competitors don't like them, but you will! Fire your phone company and free your communications.

Trinsic (Z-Tel) Enhanced Local, LD & Voicemail

One of the largest local phone companies in the USA offering plans with unlimited long distance calling & their unique Trinsic Center feature which voice enables your phone service to interact with your own personal address book! Stand-alone long distance services with voice technology also available. Local service is offered in most states, with exception of SBC and Bell South regions. Service is also generally available in Verizon territories that fall within those SBC and Bell South dominated states.

MCI's The Neighborhood

You've seen the commercials, now find out what you've been missing. 3 local plans are available. Current promotion features 2 months of free service (your first, plus another month after one year). Talk unlimited or choose Neighborhood 200, starting at just $29.99! (Customers who order Online can opt to receive MCI's broadband service once activated -- where available.) Local phone service offered in all 48 contiguous states plus Washington, DC.

Cleartel Communications Residential

Cleartel offers a wide variety of local phone services to suite your calling needs with local and unlimited calling starting at just $37.95. Dial Tone, Local calling, Long distance, and essential features like Call Waiting and Voicemail, all from one company, on one bill, at great rates! Cleartel will provide the residential customer a Free month of service. This free month of service will be provided in the 13th month, provided the residential customer remains on Cleartel for 12 consecutive months and is a residential customer in good standing at the end of 12 months (expires 8/31/2005). Available in: AL, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MD, MA, MI, MS, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TX, VI, WI

Spectrotel Residential Local

Get local bundled telephone service at significant savings -- including unlimited calling plans. You can choose the call features that meet your needs including voicemail. Inside wiring plans are available. Spectrotel also offers competitive rates for domestic, international and toll-free services. Available in: NY, NJ, MA, PA, DE, MD & VI

Blue Casa Communications

Whether you are in an English or Spanish speaking household, it doesn't matter. Blue Casa is 100% bilingual. Get your local and long distance service here and they will take good care of you with great customer support and an easy to understand bill. Serving California customers only.

May we suggest:

Do you have broadband (high-speed Internet access via DSL, Cable or ISDN, etc.)? If so, we'd suggest that you consider VoIP service (also called broadband phone service). That way you can get unlimited USA & Canadian calling, plus broadband internet for about the same price, or less, than what you are currently paying! We offer popular VoIP providers like: Vonage, Packet8, VoipNet and Opex Internet Voice.

If one of the above local service providers doesn't suite your needs, we would recommend you try a month-to-month wireless provider, such as Opex Fixed Wireless. There are a few cool things about this service. First, it operates on the immense Cingular/AT&T Wireless Network. That means you can call Cingular customers for free! It also means you get equivelent service, but without the headaches of credit checks and contracts. You can also use this service as your home phone. By placing your cellular phone in your base station, the other phones in your house can utilize your cellular service to make and receive phone calls. Give Opex Wireless a try!

If you've decided you don't want to try another local service provider at this time, you may want to take advantage of our super-low long distance rates. We're not hyping them. It's the truth. We only carry the best of the best! If you don't mind programming a number into your speed dial, then we would recommend Tel3. With Tel3 you can call anywhere in the USA for just 1.9 cents per minute. If you'd rather just pick up your phone and make a call the old fashioned way, Opex LD and Pioneer are the way to go, with rates as low as 2.7 cents per minute -- and all three services have really low international rates. Not as concerned about rates, but want a robust service with a bunch of features? Then you've got to try one of Trinsic's long distance programs... still a great rate, as low as 3.9 cents per minute in-state and state-to-state, but the voice capabilities and address book are really what make this service shine!