There are many options but I need help deciding on which one. I looked at Majic Jack,Straight Talk Vonage and Basic Talk. I would like to keep the same number and be able to use my landline phones. Help Thanks

I have tried Majicjack and vonage and didn't get good service from either. I now have had Phone Power for several years and am very pleased. I disconnected the land line from my house, Added a telephone cable from the Phone Power box to my in-house system and every thing including CID works great.

Paul

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Landline with Internet access costs me next to nothing extra. Landline has the advantage of working even without electricity and being nearly 100% reliable. (And yes, I have a line-powered phone.)

I also have a landline powered phone; it always works, even when the power is out.

and it's connected to an an answering machine that filters all incoming calls. If someone want's to speak with me they can leave a message and I'll return the call when it's convenient for me. I have a cell phone that I only turn on if I want to make a call.
These devices are for MY convenience.

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Landines require wires, which makes them more susceptible to going down during storms.
This myth that they are in any way more reliable than a cell is erroneous at best, and is generally a defense mechanism of people who don't like change.

We ditched the landline years ago and have been using an Obi with a google voice number.
$40 for the box, free phone service in the US, Canada, Mexico and a few other places I never need to call.
Did I mention that there is no monthly fee?

I connected the box to the house wiring in the last house so all the jacks would work, but got sick of seeing the dinosaur on the wall, so when we moved I just hooked it to a set of double receiver wireless phones.

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Wires are underground in properly built cities. My landline has literally NEVER been down in 4.5 years, including during Sandy. Also, cell towers apparently have poor backup power capacity. During an extended blackout, the cell network will go down much quicker than land lines.

Oh yeah, and ...
ned-LUDD-ned-LUDD-ned-LUDD-ned-LUDD-ned-LUDD-YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAH!

When I said landline I meant AT&T phone service. I never herd of (landline).

I know -- I'd keep the AT&T phone service. It doesn't seem to be much cheaper to dump it, and landlines are extremely reliable.

I kept a record of how many real phone calls I received over a six month period. The total sum was zero.

Everyone who knows me using my cell because they want to talk to me and they know I travel.

I did get a lot of robo-calls, 'surveys' with loaded questions, and wrong numbers.

So I finally dropped it after a friend of mine put it like this: "Why would I pay for a bell in my house that anyone can ring?"

I turn the bell off at night. I hate talking on a cell phone radiation box, so if I'm home or in home office, I call people back on the land line.

10 years ago when we dumped the Bellsouth (Now A.T.+T., AGAIN),to the curb,
Their billing approached $60.00 U.S.D. per month.
Paying THAT was Insanity!


1. Try and find a "Payphone" inside CONUS these days...Very,Very,Very difficult.
Because the Wireline Carriers did away with them all years ago.
Why? No Profits!!!
Wireless killed Public access Wireline,


2. Almost ALL the V.O.I.P. (Voice over Internet Protocol) carriers:
YMAX (Y'all know them as Magic Jack),Etc,Etc,Etc. are trying run
a communications system that requires a Fortune on a Tin Can
Budget.
PLUS each and every time the "Signal" is forced to go through
a Wireline OR Wireless Carrier's Switch/Tower the DEGRADATION
of Quality is Immense!
You don't really think the Big Carriers have only one level of Delivery?
Y'all are blaming the Tin Can for signal quality degradation caused by
the Legacy Carriers self protectionism.

PLUS,To use V.O.I.P. you've gotta have Internet Access,WHICH in
The U.S. means Comcast,Etc.,Etc.,Etc.(UNLESS you're close enough
to a unprotected WiFi network to use it's access.) The Cable companies
can't even keep the Cable T.V. up and running on good weather days.
So,that's the second INSTABILITY of domestic V.O.I.P. CAUSED by
ANOTHER outside source, y'all are blaming on the WRONG Actor.

(Separate RANT may be available on the Ponzi scheme CABLE in the U.S.
has turned into,at a later date.)
Example: Comcast has RAPED everybody in the U.S.,Financially,that they
BOUGHT NBC Universal OUTRIGHT!

3. Who is paying for the OLD "Copper" GRID and all it's associated costs in
C.O.N.U.S. ? WIRELESS USERS !!! ZOMEZINGs gotta connect all those
Towers.

4. Communications entities OWN the F.T.C., F.C.C., AND Congress through
their Lobbyists.

5. I don't actually believe agencies like FSB, NSA,Etc.,Etc. had anything to
do with the Exponential growth of Wireless,BUT it sure has made catching
Stupid Crooks and/or Terrorists easier.

6. BUT,for average consumers Wireless is just too easy,And Just like Crack!

7. Motorola had the Solution in it's Iridium Satellite Telephone Network...
(BUT the economies of scale didn't work quickly enough for launch of
Consumer Satellite service.) If EVERYONE had a Sat Phone,Like everyone
has a cellphone now,the Wireline Grid would have "Gone Away" due to
Costs.
Iridium's still up there and running,But [actually] by whom I don't even
want to Know. Mayhaps they have a three letter designation?
Satellite can be made Secure.

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It seems most people just use there cell phones.

I don't think I'll ever dump my wired phone. What do the MajicJack type services do about 911? Do you have some person named Debbie in Bangladesh handling your emergency call?

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I think it rings to the local 911 emergency PSAP or at least is supposed to. They map it by address, which is why they ask for address when you set up the account.

Why do you want the landline phone? For my case, the wife faxes scripts so we need it and it costs me less than $5 a month. Now if we didn't need the fax or she could use some other means and just push a button, I'd be all for it but she isn't tech savvy so we just program the numbers into the speed dial and go for it. Beyond that, I have no real reason for a land line.

As to AT&T, even if it was free, there is NFW they would be allowed any products in my house. Before we signed on the line for the house, I checked to see if my internet company would service that area. If it was only AT&T, it would be a dealbreaker. I get internet and cable. With that, the phone is a couple bucks so WGAS. Easier than to deal with trying to get faxes across for the wife when I am not in the house and have to do it over the phone.

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