Why continue to pay Verizon $20/month. I’m with those who vote for Ooma. I’ve had an Ooma voip device for about 5 years. The Ooma device will pay for itself in just a few months. Hook up your existing phones to the Ooma device, have your number ported, and cut Ma Bell out of your life forever. You won’t be able to tell the difference if you have decent internet broadband. On Ooma’s website they have speed tests to see if Ooma will work for you. I tried a few other voip services before Ooma; Ooma is clearly superior. You buy the device and the service is free. You pay only local taxes (about $3 around here). I worried that Ooma may not survive, but so far, so good; they’ve been stellar.
I couple that with Google Voice, which I have set up to ring both my home phone (Ooma) and my cell phone together. Google Voice allows me to send out cell phone texts on my computer instead of having to type on the small screen of the cell phone.
People can almost understand me on my Ooma connection. I have pretty good Internet service, yet the outgoing packets are dropped more often than delivered.