Two advantages of the magicjack, are you can have 9 11 service, it works from your address, rather than your phone number, pretty cool, and the price, you just can't beat the price. And then their is always skype, and a skype adapter, if you don't want to set in front of the computer. You can plug in the skype adapter, and use your regular land line phone. You cvan buy a year of Skype in, until June 1 for $23.95, a year. Call any where unlimited in the states, and Canada. Regards Don
----- Original Message ----- From: Victor Gouveia To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:37 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] VOIP Phones Hi Larry, there are a few considerations you may want to take into account when wanting to switch to VOIP phones. First and foremost is the 911 service it's attached to and whether it's registered. We had a death attributed directly to a VOIP phone not being registered with 911, and instead of the ambulance going to the proper address, it went clear across town, so you may want to check on this. Another concern is the fact that it's mainly electrically driven, meaning if the power goes out, or even just the cable that the high speed internet is connected to goes out, so does your phone service, so God forbid you ever get a fire or another emergency during one of those black outs, or cable outage. Lastly is the amount you're paying for high speed internet because if you're not getting the full service, meaning you're at the highest connection speed, you may have to upgrade to a higher speed connection, which will end up bumping up your price overall, not a very nice prospect. Of course, there's the other factor of having to buy additional handsets, additional services like call waiting and call answering services like voicemail, that sort of thing, as those will cost extra, unless you're going to be getting software that will handle all of that, and is it going to be accessible? Anyway, hope I've given you a few things to think about. Victor Co-moderator Blind Movie Buffs List Guidedogs List [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
