If possible, keep the cell phone and lose the land line. IMO: When it comes to home phone service, the land-line phone companies are a complete rip-off and are doomed unless they change their ways. Long distance is one example of their archaic thinking. All the non-traditional phone companies include unlimited long distance and unless the Bells, etc. get unboard, they will continue to lose customers. If I could figure out a way to drop my business service with the Bells, I would do it in a heartbeat. I already use my cell phone for national long distance and I use Skype for international calls to my Vanagon vendors in Europe (Vanagon related content). Not a hard decision, it's included with my cell service and only .02/minute with Skype. Bury the Bells! They're as bad as the oil companies when it comes to squeezing the last penny... Cheers & GO CHARGERS!!!! Jeff
-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf Of Mike S Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 5:21 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: [NVC] Best Internet Telephony
At 07:52 PM 1/12/2007, Gary McEachern wrote... >I can configure this >service so when my internet goes down calls are automatically routed >to my cell phone. > >On 1/12/07, Mike S <mikes@flatsurface.com> wrote: >>Don't give up your primary phone if phone service is critical As I said - don't give up a primary phone through a *LEC/cell carrier. You kept cell service. Like I often tell people - phone calls are often made to report a network outage, I've never heard of anyone sending an email to report their phone service is down. The mere fact that such backup routing is available is a clear indication that Vonage recognizes the inherent problem. |
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