Posted on 10/19/2012 5:17:23 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat
Still stuck paying $35 or more for a home phone that you can't or don't want to give up? I have a new option that could lower your cost for the same service to $15 a month!
Verizon and Straight Talk are teaming up to introduce Home Phone Connect, which promises unlimited local and long distance calling, voicemail, caller ID, three-way calling and more, all with no contract!
This home phone service does not require an Internet connection. You basically purchase a $99 wireless base station that you put wherever you happen to get a good signal in your home.
Once you purchase it, you can even port your number over from the monopoly local phone company.
Meanwhile, most people who stick with the monopoly local phone company are paying $35 or more for their service and that's not including any special features.
i’ve had ooma for well over a year. the sound is very clear. i think i paid $200 for equipment at that time but made it up after 6 mos. they currently have a refer a friend program to get the equipment for $140.
The new magic jacks plug right in to the router and works great. I have one.
“After having no phone service availble twice on wireless during emergencies I am going back to having a plain old everyday wired home phone.”
Having dependable communications is exactly why we have our landline, too. We’re rather remote and experience power outages often and for long periods of time. We depend on the landline to keep in contact with everyone, including the Electric Utility.
But if you do not have Verizon Phone service their Internet (15 mbps) will go up from 22.00 to about 36.00. So does this provide Internet as well? Thanks
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