Hello All,
I know this is old, but wanted to share in case it helps
someone (I spent a few months determining my options and testing different
solutions). I recently dropped Vonage after about 9 yrs for my home setup and
switched to a significantly cheaper and more flexible solution. Vonage is too
expensive (~$37/month) & I didn't need all their crazy features since it needed
to be "wife friendly" (non-tech) & support a standard 2 line Panasonic cordless
phone. And more importantly their pricing over the last few years included
double digit pricing increases for "taxes & surcharges". I also have a Google
Voice I wanted to incorporate. 2 options...
- Get a OBiTalk (hardware) which allows you to dial out/in via an
analog or IP phone via a SIP provider or Google Voice (supports 2 SIP or phone
line options or combination). Yes, your grandmother's analog phone (needs touch
tone, sorry no pulse) could be dialing out for FREE via Google Voice.
http://www.obihai.com/ The folks behind OBiTalk use to work for Cisco, there
hardware is rock solid stable. Very user friendly for non-VoIP people.
- Use a SIP provider (I like voip.ms) since it's very cheap and has
EVERY feature you could dream of. Spoofed calling (my SPA has 6 caller ID
profiles), Asterisk support, phone trees, e911 or no e911 to save the money. If
you're really smart & thrifty, you get e911 on 1 line and none on line 2 and do
call routing when someone dials 911. You can get almost unlimited national for
$4.95 INCLUDING ALL TAXES & SURCHARGES. And it's 6 sec billing. E911 is $1.50
extra a month. You can port #'s over (adds $2 a month), etc. I love these guys.
I have extra DIDs for $0.99 a month. It's mind blowing.
FYI: I have an OBi110 (it's so popular - people scalp them) & a Cisco SPA509G
IP phone.
Enjoy,
-Ben
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 3:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: I need a Landline! You read that right.
So...
Thought I'd build a nice new home office in the basement. After layers of new
insulation, soundproofing, and drywall, my cell phone no longer works down
there! Oops :-\
Considering how much I telecommute, I need to get some sort of landline
installed. VOIP/SIP/Digital through Comcast, I'm considering it all. But, I'm
not too well versed on the options avail. I still support an old PBX at our
office, and built a SIP fax service/server, but my telco experience is pretty
limited outside of that. I'd like to avoid Comcast (Personal reasons and I
often cancel it and go through our Municipal WiFi).
Any suggestions you guys have off the top of your head? A good service that
sticks out that you would like to plug?
Something that incorporated with Google Voice would be a plus... (Not sure
anything does). I do use the new Sprint/Google Voice offering, so I can mask
the new number with my Sprint number, and I can easily have my Sprint number
ring the new number too.
Thanks. Open to ideas.
-Sam
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