VOIP home phone systems

[Patrick]

Think of it as Cingular's follow me home service if reverse.
If you have a cell phone, and just want something for your home it 
sounds great. If you lose connection, it can automaticly send the call 
to another phone number for you. I.E. your cell phone.
It sounds great if you want numbers in another city, or lower cost 
service, and if you have backup service--who does not have a cell 
phone--it isn't so bad of a deal... let alone you can get away from bell.

Its $15/mo for the low usage 500 minutes and only $.039/minute after 
that. ($20 for the next 512 minutes. I use my home phone far less than 
my cell and I hover around 1000 minutes on it.
then there is $1.50 line charge and taxes. So it may be priced as high 
as basic phone service. The thing is it includes advanced features you 
don't get on basic service.

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>The thing about Vonage is that its "really cool" to be running your phone
>service as VoIP, but if your goal isn't "to have all the cool technology"
>and is just "to get away from SWB", you don't want Vonage.  The most you
>can do to "get away from SWB" is to buy a wireless phone with lots of
>minutes (Cingular RollOver sounds nice), get Cable Internet (trade one
>infrastructure monopoly for another) and keep a stripped-down SWB phone
>line with nothing but the most basic service for emergencies (my folks
>stripped out tone service for a $1.50 a month savings, and without the
>other bells and whistles you can have a $20 or less phone bill a month).
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