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

Sun Oct 15 17:07:07 PDT 2023

 Do you remember the days prior to cell phones when grandma called "the house", never knowing which grandchild might answer? Then, each family member had their turn speaking with her.  Now, in the absence of landlines, grandma must select one of four or five cell numbers to call, often reaching mom or dad in the car, at the restaurant, shopping, or at work. As for the rest of the family, who knows?
Barry 

    On Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 09:32:59 AM EDT, Harry Forsdick via LCTG <lctg at lists.toku.us> wrote:  

 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 Millneramillner at alum.mit.eduhome 781-862-7893. cell 781-999-434648 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> 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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