The Service Economy

The Service Economy

December 06, 2005 at 11:48Productivity

Recently, I realized that most of my monthly bills are for recurring services. Not including landline telephone bill, electric bill, or gas bill, my monthly service charges add up. These are the services I use which are business-related:

Business Use

  • MyFax, $10 per month: MyFax provides us with an incoming fax line. While we have a fax machine at home, it's never in Receive mode because it shares a line with our other phones. MyFax receives our faxes and then puts the pages into a PDF file and emails the PDF to my email acct, which also allows me to read faxes received during the day from work.

So the total for business services is just under $300 per month. We just switched this weekend to Cingular with the goal of reducing that service cost a bit. The following services I keep just for personal use:

Personal Use

  • UT2004 Server, $10.50 per month: I rent space on a game server so Petey and I can have low-lag Unreal Tournament 2004 games.

So another $45 for personal services. All together, almost $350 per month for services related to the digital world.