With Ooma, you buy the box for $100, and then all they charge you monthly is the taxes and fees for having a phone number, so it amounts to less than $5 a month for a land line. It is a pretty good service.
Glad you suggested Ooma. I shopped around, looked at 1-VoIP, Phone Power and Vonage... and Ooma has by far the best plans. And if you look on Amazon, they sell the unit right now for $87
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really good ...the monthly bill for basic unlimited is going to be about $4.10, the only other charge I'll incur is $40 for porting my phone number over. They give you a temporary number for free while that takes place. The only other thing is calls to Canada are $0.014/min (about $1.00 for an hour of talk) and that requires a $10 deposit for international calls, no big deal for me.
The unit will plug into my existing house phone wiring (the way I have Comcast voice setup now). It's a no-brainer.
1-VoIP, Phone Power and Vonage all had good 1st year plans,
but then they go up to anywhere from $15 to $29 / month in the second year. Bait and switch!!!
Drop the modem Rental drop VoIP VoIP requires battery backup anyway all you need is a DOCSIS 3 Gateway or tandalone modem, surfboard or netgear...
I got NETGEAR CM500-1AZNAS (16x4) DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem, Max download speeds of 686Mbps, Certified for Xfinity from Comcast, Spectrum, Cox, Cablevision & more for $59 at Amazon
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