Actually my account was only for 5-6 dollars/month. I never actually used it even once but merely got it for the 1000 ff points every month. So that's why there was no point in paying money if I wasn't getting any ff points out of it. I'm in Canada now so I can't even connect (locally) even if I wanted to.

BTW, IBM Global Services is excellent as you can use it anywhere in N. America without surcharges and they have access numbers everywhere. Unfortunately, they are also cutting back benefits (it used to be free world-wide no surcharges)