Comments on: New Landline Phone TV Ads Are Cute, But Would You Change Back From VOIP?

By: david

david — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:00:51 +0000

If you have downed lines, your phone lines won’t work either, as usually they are all on the same poles. But I refuse to pay 3X what I pay for VOIP for the possibility of not having a phone if the power happens to go out.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:30:45 +0000

What about power failures? We’ve occasionally had multi-day power failures (e.g. windstorms) where the only thing that worked was the landline. And we keep an old-fashioned wired phone line around just in case .

I suppose we can use cell phones as backups instead and drive around in the car to charge them up…

I think the uptime SLAs for the landlines have to be a lot higher than your Internet connection.

By: David

David — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:11:21 +0000

What is DSL light, Sam? And yes, it works with your regular phones, and if no one ever told you, you would have no idea it wasn’t a “regular” phone. You don’t need to buy any equipment other than the little box the company (Vonage in my case) gives you.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:43:55 +0000

Couple questions, does it work w/ DSL light? Do you need a special phone that works w/ it? Do you receive calls like normal? etc.

Good info, thx. I may have to look into it.

By: Gail

Gail — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:45:36 +0000

I still have a landline; and can’t beat the price right now since it is a bundle deal with my cable, and internet. Paying $23 per month still is a good deal for me.

By: dora

dora — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:41:51 +0000

I still have a landline phone, but was thinking about switching to VOIP. I just called my phone company to ask about cheaper service and the nasty attitude I got from the rep made me think twice about staying with them. Plus which, they wanted me to switch my tv and internet to their service (I have Cable for those so I thought I’d stay with it). It’s comforting to hear people are happy they switched. I’m next!

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:36:21 +0000

I switch to voip about a month ago. The one I use is phonepower. With a deal they had going it was $200 for 2 years. There were a few issues setting it up which had a lot more to do with my ISP than with phonepower. Their customer service has been great. It saves a lot of money each month even though I have to pay for stand alone DSL which is more expensive than the DSL that was bundled with my prior shone service. All in all, I’m happy with the service and it definitely saves money.

By: Miranda

Miranda — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:32:59 +0000

We just switched to VoIP. I am looking forward to saving $40 a month on my phone bill. Mine also has the automatic forward in case of an outage. Solid.

By: PA Mom

PA Mom — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:16:56 +0000

We’ve had Vonage for several years now. It’s cheap, the quality is great, no dropped calls, and I have it set to forward calls to my cell after 30 seconds. So in the event the cable modem or power goes out, all calls will be forwarded to my cell. No loss of service even during power outages.