Internet phone service

fendergirl
Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:14:10 +0000

OP - I do not have a land line but I do have two cell phones (One personal one and one business) hooked up to a Bluetooth home phone system - AT&T - this works very well! and a VOIP business phone which plugs into my work Router and is plugged into battery back up which is different then the websites where you use the website to make a call.

Please keep in mind if your power goes out, you more then likely won’t have a working home phone if you decided to ditch the land line. Sure you could have the type that uses your bandwidth… but if your power is out my guess is you more then likely do not have power to your cable modem to provide any bandwidth anyway… Unless you have some sort of generator or battery back up (which only is good for x period of time).

My VOIP phone works very well but it is a pretty expensive phone - I think these retail for a couple hundred dollars a piece. It is very clear and picks up everything. One problem with VOIP phones in general is if your cable service isn’t very steady your phone could go in and out - one thing I hear from some of our folks at work is that when they are having cable internet issues they can hear their customers but their customers can’t hear them or there is some static on the line where it sounds like the call is breaking up. This is an ISP issue.