I switched to Vonage a few months ago and have been pretty pleased. It costs half as much as verizon ($25 vs. $50). Plus there are tons of free extras they throw in like unlimited long distance, caller id with name, call waiting, voicemail, and call forwarding to name a few. I also get an email whenever I get a voicemail that I can check over the internet if i'm at work for example and want to see who called. Saving the $25 also worked room in the budget for cable internet (from dial-up)which is really required for voice over ip. I had to buy a router and we use cordless phones now which is nice in its own respect. I understand if someone is decent with a soldering iron they could integrate the voice over ip into their existing phone lines rather than use cordless or rewire. The one real downside was mentioned about 911. You can leave your existing phones in for 911 from your local telephone company, and when you dial 911 on the new phones it is routed to your local Public Service Access Point or a Public Safety Answering Point which sometimes is the same as where you 911 calls go. This will change in the next couple of years i believe. This is definately not for everyone yet, but overall I am very pleased.
-JenEd -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark W Jones Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 11:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RR] Internet phone anyone? A phone line in a house is simply just too inexpensive and to handy not to have. Unless of course your a college student with no real dependents at home. Then it makes ..a few.cents... not to have one. Grin! _______ List host: http://Kahunapule.org List info: http://RangerNet.org/faq.htm To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://RangerNet.org/subscribe.htm
