On 27/4/19 10:41 am, David wrote:
... Was the ISP's phone a POTS service ...
It was an analog phone on CAT 6 cable to the fiber optic node, about 20m away.
... $20 per month _providing_ it's bundled with internet access.
You can get a mobile phone service for $10 a month, or less.
... pre-configured VoIP box of some sort?
For VoIP, I bought a box, and configured myself, which was a nightmare.
... VoIP also has the advantage it can be connected to the house ...
Some of the fixed wireless desk phones provide a RJ11 socket to connect analog phones. Some have a cordless handset, and allow you to add extra cordless handsets. There are also Cellular Wired Phone Adapters, which don't have a built in handset.
But this is getting a bit complicated. I think of a home phone as something you have in a corner to use very occasionally, like this:
"Craven flees for a bunker - a disused nuclear weapons fire control site. Now feeling the effects of the radiation, and with the IIF forces flooding the bunker with gas, Craven desperately seeks out a working telephone - the only one he can find dials directly to a disused basement at 10 Downing Street. A bemused security guard answers the call as Craven screams "Get me Pendelton!".
From "Edge of Darkness", Episode 5, BBC TV, 1985 http://genehuntsguidetodvds.blogspot.com/2010/05/edge-of-darkness-vs-edge-of-darkness.html
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