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

Mon Oct 16 07:36:09 PDT 2023

Does anyone still need fax?  You can scan a document and email it as an
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 10:30 AM Stan Rose via LCTG <lctg at lists.toku.us>
wrote:

> 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 outdated, degrading copper POTs lines.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?
>>
>> *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
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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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