[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Moving landline to VOIP
Mitchell I. Wolfe
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Mon Oct 16 07:18:38 PDT 2023
We rather screen spam calls at home rather being interrupted in the car
and elsewhere.
Right out of college in the 1970's I elected the cheaper party line
option. My answering machine used to pick up calls destined for the
other party.
Our home phone has been on VOIP for over 10 years using voipo.com [9].
The cost is less than $7 per month if you prepay for two years. The
vendor sends you a free converter box. There's a ton of features. We
receive substantially more spam calls than with wireless providers even
with the free nomorobo integration.
Most VOIP boxes do not work for sending or receiving faxes.
Due to industry pressure, the FCC issued Forbearance Order 19-72A1 [10]
which has officially granted telecommunications carriers permission to
abandon outdated, degrading copper POTs lines. Consequently POT service
has gotten substantially more expensive and harder to get since the
August 2, 2022 implementation date.
-- Mitch
On 2023-10-16 09:57, OLGA P GUTTAG via LCTG wrote:
> And how many of you had to wait for 12 yrs to get a party line in the
> first place?
>
> As to spam:
> Being incredibly lazy about making changes to our phone technology, I
> have kept my business line for about $10/mo. Whenever I am asked for
> phone by people/places I don't trust to keep my real number secure, I
> give out this line. Thus the daily 20+ spam calls or unwanted
> follow-ups by sales people from whom I bought a car/plumbing/etc. go to
> this line. I only monitor it if I am in the process of buying a car,
> etc.
>
> For now this has kept the number of junk calls to our other land line
> and cell phone to minimum. I expect that I could port this business
> line to something less expensive, but for now my time is worth more
> than the cost of status quo. However, if you have not yet got the
> numbers you care about into the universe, I recommend that you
> establish a second line to give out to those who will increase your
> spam volume.
>
> Stay well,
> Olga
>
> On Oct 15, 2023, at 8:43 PM, John Rudy via LCTG <lctg at lists.toku.us>
> wrote:
>
> And how many of you ever had a party line?
>
> From: LCTG <lctg-bounces+jjrudy1=comcast.net at lists.toku.us> On Behalf
> Of bhff02--- via LCTG
> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2023 8:07 PM
> To: Alan Millner <armillner48 at gmail.com>; Lex Computer Group
> <lctg at lists.toku.us>; Harry Forsdick <harry at forsdick.com>
> Subject: Re: [Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Moving landline to VOIP
>
> 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 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> 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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