Anyone still has a land-line?

[Matt1970]

Oops, that should be one more for MagicJack.

 

[Perknose]

same here, FIOS line.

- the triple play is a better value than the double play (without phone).
- the home security system needs a line. I looked into cellular but it is more money monthly. And someone mentioned the cell towers may be unavailable in regional emergency situations. We're in NY so it has happened.
- other than that, 90% of the calls I get on the landline are fricken robo-calls. So annoying. The only legit calls are the things we sign the kids up for and they don't happen to use email (ie. swimming).

Nomorobo. I think I got turned on to it here.

 

[inachu]

I use OOMA..... no phone bill for over 5 years

 

[Perknose]

I use OOMA..... no phone bill for over 5 years

But you do pay a small monthly amount in taxes and fees, right?

 

[ponyo]

But you do pay a small monthly amount in taxes and fees, right?

Not if you have the early model before the change. That unit is grandfathered and you pay nothing. I've had mine for like 7 years.

 

[RossMAN]

But you do pay a small monthly amount in taxes and fees, right?

Correct unless you're grandfathered in from several years ago when Ooma paid the monthly fees on your behalf. All things considered it's definitely worth considering.

https://go.ooma.com/tax_calculator

My monthly bill is around $3.50 and it's worth every penny. Call quality is solid, crisp, clear and reliability has been near 100%.

If you have a fax machine, alarm system or ancient DVR that dials out I'm not sure if Ooma plays nice with those systems or not.

Best of all we haven't received a single spam or robocall on our Ooma number, yet.

 

[inachu]

But you do pay a small monthly amount in taxes and fees, right?

You buy the phone and no more bills..... nada nothing.
Did not know they changed the payment plans on the new hardware.

Only time you pay if you want long distance to other nations.
Or if you want extra bells and whistles added to yourselvice like call forwarding or tracking and stuff like that.

When I first bought OOMA it cost me $230 but latest run to bestbuy I see it costs now just $140 plus tax

 

[inachu]

Correct unless you're grandfathered in from several years ago when Ooma paid the monthly fees on your behalf. All things considered it's definitely worth considering.

https://go.ooma.com/tax_calculator

My monthly bill is around $3.50 and it's worth every penny. Call quality is solid, crisp, clear and reliability has been near 100%.

If you have a fax machine, alarm system or ancient DVR that dials out I'm not sure if Ooma plays nice with those systems or not.

Best of all we haven't received a single spam or robocall on our Ooma number, yet.

I have had roku streaming and world of warcraft running and amazon movie all at the same time while talking on OOMA and it sounded great.

 

[RossMAN]

I have had roku streaming and world of warcraft running and amazon movie all at the same time while talking on OOMA and it sounded great.

Yeah we've had a Skype session going, some light gaming, streaming Netflix and Ooma without any problems.

http://www.ooma.com/app/support/configuring-quality-service

 

[ponyo]

Correct unless you're grandfathered in from several years ago when Ooma paid the monthly fees on your behalf. All things considered it's definitely worth considering.

https://go.ooma.com/tax_calculator

My monthly bill is around $3.50 and it's worth every penny. Call quality is solid, crisp, clear and reliability has been near 100%.

If you have a fax machine, alarm system or ancient DVR that dials out I'm not sure if Ooma plays nice with those systems or not.

Best of all we haven't received a single spam or robocall on our Ooma number, yet.

You can use fax machine with Ooma. I used it on mine and it worked fine.

I wouldn't get Ooma now. $3.50 a month is still money wasted every month. Why pay that when Obihai is available and it's free? Best plan now is to buy Obihai for like $35 and never pay another monthly fee.

 

[TheVrolok]

Haven't had one since I lived at my parent's house in high school.

 

[Eug]

You can use fax machine with Ooma. I used it on mine and it worked fine.

I wouldn't get Ooma now. $3.50 a month is still money wasted every month. Why pay that when Obihai is available and it's free? Best plan now is to buy Obihai for like $35 and never pay another monthly fee.

Fax can work with VoIP (like Ooma), but it often doesn't. It's inconsistent from home to home and inconsistent sometimes for the same home too. IOW, it's unreliable over VoIP. That's not necessarily a big deal for the occasional user, but not a good idea to run your business fax off it. In my case I have a full time job but also have extra work on the side that requires a reliable fax. I need to receive tens of fax pages at a time several times a week when I'm doing that work. The small amount extra I have to spend per month is easily worth it for the reliability.

 

[StinkyPinky]

I have a physical phone but it uses VoIP rather than traditional analog. Not sure if that's a "land line" or not.

 

[Eug]

I have a physical phone but it uses VoIP rather than traditional analog. Not sure if that's a "land line" or not.

That is not. You can use a regular phone with wireless too and obviously does not make it a land line either.

 

[Spacehead]

Yeah, still a land line.
I have a Tracfone for my convenience to call out when not at home but it's tuned off most of the time. The signal isn't that great at home either but the few times i've used it at home i haven't had problems but i wouldn't want to rely only on that.

DSL at home too. Never looked into if i need to keep phone service with that. It's only $15/mo. anyway.

 

[Matt1970]

Yeah, still a land line.
I have a Tracfone for my convenience to call out when not at home but it's tuned off most of the time. The signal isn't that great at home either but the few times i've used it at home i haven't had problems but i wouldn't want to rely only on that.

DSL at home too. Never looked into if i need to keep phone service with that. It's only $15/mo. anyway.

Nothing wrong with TracFone. I have had it for the last 3 years. Only once has the $99 refill card not lasted me a full year and that was when I was doing side work for a pain in the ass lady that would call me 3 times a day. I don't really need a smart phone as 99% of the time I am either at home or at my girlfriend's with my lappy.

 

[Engineer]

Got rid of mine a few years ago because TWC wouldn't lower my price ($58 per month then PLUS $0.10 per minute for long distance). Thought I would miss it but boy, was I wrong. Blessing in disguise!!! Of course, TWC has begged many times trying to give me service for as low as $19.00 per month. No thanks.

 

[AMD64Blondie]

Comcast digital voice for me.

Got it hooked up to a fairly nice Panasonic KX-TG4742B cordless phone.

 

[mrrman]

my cell has crappy reception in my area, cant depend on the cell so landline is still in use