[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Moving landline to VOIP

[Alan Millner]

Our Panasonic cordless phone system ( our landline) has bluetooth connection to our cellphones, so we can answer a cell call at any of its 6 handsets, if the cell is sitting near the base unit on its charger.

Alan Millner
amillner at alum.mit.edu
home 781-862-7893. cell 781-999-4346
48 North St., Lexington MA 02420




On Oct 15, 2023, at 8:36 AM, Harry Forsdick via LCTG <lctg at lists.toku.us> wrote:

Our solution to this has been to get rid of our “landline” when we got rid of cable and just use our cell phones.  

It wasn't difficult — it had already started to happen because we discovered that the predominant users of our landline were telemarketers.

Now calls come to the person being called.  It does require that each of us to carry our phones on our person.  

I have yet to find a way to combine my cellphone to a fixed wired phone so that each of our phones could be picked up at fixed locations in the house.  If anybody has leads on this I would love to hear about this.

Thanks,

— Harry

On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 6:56 PM BARRY HASS via LCTG <lctg at lists.toku.us <mailto:lctg at lists.toku.us>> wrote:
> I have the premium plan which gives me a second inbound line. It also calls two numbers of my choice for notification purposes when I dial 911. All voicemails appear on the phone but are also emailed to my wife and myself. We have the OOMA app on our phones which allow us to call US phones from anywhere in the world at no cost as long as I have an internet connection. OOMA premium has call forwarding, and call forwarding on network or power failure. There are other features which I don’t recall at this moment.
> 
> Barry
> 
> > On Oct 14, 2023, at 5:41 PM, Shelly Lowenthal via LCTG <lctg at lists.toku.us <mailto:lctg at lists.toku.us>> wrote:
> > 
> > I’ve been using OOMA for 12 years. I’ve recommended it and people have been happy with it. Let me know if you have questions on porting - very simple. Base plan is $7/month - all of it taxes. They have a premium plan with more features.
> > 
> > Shelly Lowenthal
> > 
> >> On Oct 14, 2023, at 5:16 PM, Peter Shaw via LCTG <lctg at lists.toku.us <mailto:lctg at lists.toku.us>> wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Thoughts on the best options to move my landline over to my Internet service?
> >> 
> >> Google Voice, Ooma, probably others.
> >> 
> >> I confess, I'm too late to be even a normal late adopter, but that's where I am.
> >> 
> >> Thanks.
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