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

Mon Oct 16 08:01:27 PDT 2023

My doctor usually accepts email attachments but occasionally says the
system isn't working right and asks for a fax, instead.

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 10:36 AM Carl Lazarus <carllazarus at comcast.net> wrote:

> Does anyone still need fax?  You can scan a document and email it as an
> attachment.
>
> 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 outdated, degrading copper POTs lines.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?
>>>
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>>> 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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