How many have made the switch to Voice over IP?
 

We picked up a pair of Cisco IP Phone 7960 Series phones yesterday, definitely cool little gadgets. I'm in the process of adding incoming lines in several area codes for local advertising vs 800# advertising. The quality is amazingly crystal considering it's all done over the net.

For a few reasons I will never get rid of my non cordless landline.
So I am more than happy paying flatrate with the phone company for unlimited long distance in the US and super cheap in countries I designate. Besides all out of the US calls are business related anyways and that is just another rightoff I can use.

people love fishing for wifi's

I believe they are called that.

I'll wait a few more years for wireless to develop securely.

~Ray

I think they have problems with 911 as well, so when you have a heart attack, good luck getting an ambulance :/

We have VOIP phone service. It's uber cheap.

My only beef with it is the cable internet goes out here from time to time and when it does then we lose our phone service.
Same thing with power outtages etc.

We have cell phones just in case, but still, it's an annoyance.

I made the switch a couple of months ago and am saving about $200 on my phone bills monthly.

I kept the regular landline for convenience only with strictly the basic plan.

300 bucks is a lot if you ask me

The good thing about our VoIP is that we didn't have to buy special phones. We just used the phones we already had. Having unlimited local, long distance in the US and Canada is great.

I made the switch to VoIP over a year ago (February 2004) and the price has kept going down. For $29.95 CDN a month, I get a phone line, voice mail, caller ID, call waiting, unlimited long distance in Canada and the US and a few other great little goodies. No setup fees, no connections fees, no system charges. It's great.

911 service isn't a problem as long as you make sure your carrier has your correct address on file. The only time a problem will arise is if you move your phone to another location without notifying your carrier (since most VoIP lines are portable). For example, my home is in Montreal. If I fly out to Vegas, hook my VoIP line into a condo I'm renting for a month and call 911, the ambulance will be sent to my place in Montreal unless I'm able to communicate my current address.

I notice your in canada. There was a news piece on voip services the other day saying they are going to institute some new laws to protect phone companies from the "threat" of internet phone services

We moved some of our phones over to Voice over IP.... Seems to work pretty well and it saves a good amount on the old land lines...

It is def the way to go!

B-

The ones I posted are a lower model, these are $450 CDN. But yeah, a bit steep.

I love my Vonage. $25 a month and it saves me AT LEAST $100 a month on my Cingular bill.

We have vonage here, we love it, but sprint is being a bitch about transferring #'s over...they haven't even contacted vonage about anything...i thought that was illegal now?

Sprint are fucking bastards. I loathe Sprint. Call them and bitch. You'll almost always have to get rude with those fuckers to get any action out of them. Just hope you get to talk to someone in North America instead of getting bumped over to their Indian support techs.

I'm not replacing anything, I'm adding phone numbers in different area codes without the costs from the telco. Major savings and I can even forward the calls to my landline if I so desire.

What benfits does that phone offer over getting a gateway from a VoIP provider and plugging a regular telephone into it? Or plugging the gateway into your NID box and plugging regular phones into your jacks?

No clue, this phone supports 4 lines that's all I know.

VIOP is cool and so is skype :thumbsup

Most gateways support 2 lines. Who's your provider?

A buddy of mine, not a commercial service.

yeah I love my vonage its great when you go away to those expensive hotels that charge 10 bucks a minute but only 20$ a day for the internet well I am going to use the internet so I take my phone too :)

Same here. I consider a landline as a lifeline, something that should be working under all conditions (ie: power outages, bad weather, etc. etc.). If internet connectivity could have the same kind of uptime as my phone line, I would switch, but I don't see that happening for at least 5+ years.

WG

I will stick with my Nextel cell. It does everything I want and then some.

Sorry, got no idea either buddy...

Still kept a landline for backup, but just got Vonage VoIP and a Vonage VoIP dedicated fax line.

Works great and all the features plus unlimited calling for only $49.95/mo! Strongly recommend http://www.Vonage.com

:thumbsup

I just got hooked up with Vonage and it's working great and they provided me with a temporary number while my old one is being transfered. Unfortunately the transfer can take a few weeks...

HAH!! That's funny.

Did they institute new laws to protect bank tellers from the "threat" of ATM's too? :1orglaugh

(Oh wait, bank tellers don't make large campaign contributions.....nevermind)

I have vonage for 25 monthand office voip at home and at my private office for nothin, unlimited minutes, niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

That's one of the funniest things I ever remember seeing.

Bank tellers walking customers on how to use ATM's.

I can only imagine what they must have been thinking while they were doing it. "Please let me show you how to use the machine that's going to help eliminate my job".

Vonage for 2 years now

:smokin