How to Pay Phone Bills Online
Paying phone bills online can be an effective way to make your bill paying more efficient.
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Instructions
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Sign up for a checking account with a local bank.
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Sign up for telephone service with a local carrier.
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Sign up for Internet access.
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Go to the telephone carrier's Web site.
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Enter your telephone number.
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Request information about payment options.
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Request that your monthly bill be deducted directly from your checking account.
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Ask that the sign-up sheet be mailed to you.
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Fill out the sign-up sheet, entering your checking-account number and your bank's name and address on the sheet.
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Ensure that your next monthly telephone bill indicates that the balance due will be deducted directly from your checking account.
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Tips & Warnings
Avoid giving out your checking-account number online. Ask the phone company to mail you the sign-up sheet.
Increasingly, merchants are accepting "digital cash," an alternative to paying bills by credit card or through checking-account debits. One product called CyberCash (www.cybercash.com) is catching on. Ask your phone company if it will accept CyberCash or other forms of digital cash.
Check out Microsoft Wallet (www.microsoft.com/wallet), also a means of paying bills online.
Avoid giving out your checking-account information online.
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Comments
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pay your bills on time! don't be late, that is the sign of a moron.
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Franceshuffaker
Oct 21, 2008
I pay my bill on line, I have changed banks I did have TVA Credit Union bank, I now have First Tennesee bank a payment for DirecTV came out out of both banks and I just paid it thur First Tennessee bank can you tell me what happened, DirecTv said only one payment was recevied thank You Frances Huffaker my ph. # 4232120244
