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JMB:
Looks interesting. $40 to port your existing number unless you are paying $10/mo for their Premier service. I'll be curious to hear your thoughts after living with it for a bit. My bundled cable contract is ending soon and I have been debating ditching the TV part and just keeping internet and phone. this could allow me to ditch the phone too.

ChadTower:

Yeah.  I'm going to port the old number if I can get rid of the buzz I'm hearing now.  In the mean time they give you a free new number that you can use.  I assume if I call that it would ring on the phone attached to the Ooma device.  The house wiring is still feeding into the Verizon standard line for the time being.

Samstag:
I just got mine last night, actually.  So I can't help much but I didn't have any problems with it in the limited testing I did.  I heard they have a good return policy so you might consider getting a replacement.

I got a refurb for $140 from Woot.

I worked out that it starts paying for itself after 4 months, or 5 months if I decide to port my old number.  In 2 years of use it'll save me about $600.  That's based on the $35/month I'm paying for my current landline, so if you're paying more than that the deal just gets better.

ChadTower:
I'm paying something like $50/month, I think, for the normal landline.  I paid the full $200 for it from Amazon, though.  Didn't make much sense to wait a month to save $50-60 at Woot.

Tonight I got what passes these days for a simple corded landline phone.  Why a simple phone needs 4 AA batteries is a separate discussion, but anyway... nice clear sound.  So it was the other phone.  We'll do some toying around with it but so far so good with this service.

Caveats are, of course, that some data devices may not work with it (fax, DVR) and the 911 calling is slightly different.  It also only works with both electricity and high speed internet in place.  I'm going to pull the house wiring and connect it to this but attach another simple corded phone to the street line so we still have 911 access if nothing else is available.  IIRC the phone utilities are required by law to provide 911 to anyone who can attach a phone whether they have service or not.

EDIT:  clarified grammar

drventure:

--- Quote ---IIRC the phone utilities are required by law to provide 911 to anyone who can attach a phone whether they have service or not.
--- End quote ---

I hadn't heard this. It'll work without a dialtone even? I have a second line that I had for a while, but turned off when I left that job.

I wonder if I hook up an old phone and dial 911, will I get anything?

On second thought, maybe I shouldn't test that..... ::)

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