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

Mon Oct 16 07:29:54 PDT 2023

Regarding fax, I am able to use my OOMA service for fax. With the OOMA
premium service, I have two numbers: one for regular voice and one for fax.

Stan Rose

stan_rose at alum.mit.edu

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 10:19 AM Mitchell I. Wolfe via LCTG <
lctg at lists.toku.us> wrote:

> 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. 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
> <https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-19-72A1.pdf> 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 outdated, degrading copper POTs lines.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?
>
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> *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
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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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