Anyone swtiched their land phone line to cable provider?

[Epic Fail]

It will be half the price, anything to watch out for? and can you port your land number?

 

[Tsaico]

I moved to Charter tlephone service and so far it is good. The only thing if there is a black out, I need to have a UPS to power the phone thingy to keep service during the black out. Also the call waiting tone sounds different, more like a screech than a blip. Other than that, quality of service, up time, etc. is totlly worth the lower costs. I also have long distance included in my flat fee, so it makes it great since my roommate and I can talk all we want and never have to deal with the bill and who called what game. My answering machine, fax machine, and all my regular phone work just as well when I had a traditional line.


And I think I was offered a chance to keep my current number, but you have to pay the "trasnfer" fee, which I opted not to.

 

[Leros]

We did that about a year ago. Our number would constantly act busy and the cable company had no fix for it so we switched by to a normal landline provider.

 

[Kelemvor]

No but switched to VoIP and works great. Cable company was WAY too expensive.

 

[eplebnista]

Kept my land line but added a magicJack for free long distance calls.

 

[miri]

Cox here in OC uses landlines

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: eplebnista
Kept my land line but added a magicJack for free long distance calls.

Interesting...

Could you plug that into a wall jack in your house so all of your phones in the house run through it?

 

[Pepsi90919]

i have vonage and ported my number. the support sucks. incoming caller ID *name* does not work. random toll free numbers will not work until you call them up, wait on hold, and have them add it to their system.

 

[BuckNaked]

They can usually port your number... the new provider will check to see if the rate center for the current number is in the same rate center as shown for the new provider..only takes a few seconds to check...

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: eplebnista
Kept my land line but added a magicJack for free long distance calls.

Interesting...

Could you plug that into a wall jack in your house so all of your phones in the house run through it?

I think most people have been using those multi-handset cordless phones. I have been using an ancient 900mhz panasonic with mine so I do not know how many phones it can successfully ring(saw some mention on their forums of having to use an externally powered usb hub to provide enough power to the magicjack if using more than say 2-3 individual phones with it).