I switched away from my landline and got VoIP instead. There are many VoIP providers, I chose Vonage. The advantage of Vonage is that you can keep using your existing landline phones, and the price is generally cheaper than a mobile contract. How does it work? You get a "black box" from your VoIP provider that hooks up between your cable modem and your router, and this box has a phone connector. I physically cut my connection to the landline outside, and then hooked up the box to a phone outlet in the house. Works perfectly, got 4 phones connected. Some draw-backs: I have had troubles with dialing into a dialup service (needed it to test if my laptop dialup connection would work before I was going on the road), and with some calls to cellular phones in Latin America. Some advantages: wicked cheap compared to my Verizon landline, flexible (I took my box with me to Europe, connected a phone and high speed internet, and was making phone calls as if I were at home, at no additional cost!), and many, many options are user configurable on their website. --Ramon
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