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

[Harry Forsdick]

Alan,

Thanks for this information.

Does this ring the Panasonic "landline" phone if a call comes in to your
cell phone? Or only the reverse -- ring your cell phone if a call comes in
on the Panasonic "landline" phone?

In our case we don't want to have a "landline".  Rather we would like to
buy some portable phones installed in various places around our house so
that even if we didn't have our cellphones in our pockets we could answer
the cellphone if we were near one of the fixed locations where a Panasonic
(or any other) phone was located.

I suspect this isn't the way these bluetooth Panasonic phones were intended
to work, but I hope I am wrong.

Thanks,

-- Harry




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On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 8:44 AM Alan Millner <armillner48 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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> 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>
> 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> 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>
>> 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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