I've been looking to add a home phone for local calling, but it seems
everything either requires a $300 box or a monthly plan. One option was to
buy a VOIP box for $45, and setup Google voice through it, however I guess
that will no longer be a free service come the first of the year. I can
always just bundle with TW, but I'd rather not add to my bill.
Does anyone have any ideas for setting something up?
We have an Oomla Telo, currently $150 at Amazon, and it only costs us $4 a
month in state and fed taxes, to have unlimited local and long distance.
I'm very happy with it, and really enjoy getting an email of my
voicemails. There are a lot of extras if you get the premium package but
this is not required to have great service.
On Nov 5, 2012 9:04 PM, "Patrick Boutwell" <patrick.boutw...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I've been looking to add a home phone for local calling, but it seems
> everything either requires a $300 box or a monthly plan. One option was to
> buy a VOIP box for $45, and setup Google voice through it, however I guess
> that will no longer be a free service come the first of the year. I can
> always just bundle with TW, but I'd rather not add to my bill.
> Does anyone have any ideas for setting something up?
> wrote:
> I've been looking to add a home phone for local calling, but it seems
> everything either requires a $300 box or a monthly plan. One option was to
> buy a VOIP box for $45, and setup Google voice through it, however I guess
> that will no longer be a free service come the first of the year. I can
> always just bundle with TW, but I'd rather not add to my bill.
> Does anyone have any ideas for setting something up?
While looking up options, sites kept saying that it would continue to be free through the end of this year. Google has no official statement but I didn't want to set something up and only be able to use it for a month.
Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 5, 2012, at 10:04 PM, Bob Waldron <bwald...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Patrick -- just curious, where did you find out that Gvoice will be charging starting the first of the year? -- Bob
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Patrick Boutwell <patrick.boutw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been looking to add a home phone for local calling, but it seems everything either requires a $300 box or a monthly plan. One option was to buy a VOIP box for $45, and setup Google voice through it, however I guess that will no longer be a free service come the first of the year. I can always just bundle with TW, but I'd rather not add to my bill.
>> Does anyone have any ideas for setting something up?
Ah... Just FYI, they've said that every year since they launched Google
Voice, so you may want to consider getting a Google Voice number even if
you set up something else before the end of the year. My guess is that
Gvoice will be continue to be free as long as Google ads continue to pull
in billions.
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Patrick Boutwell <
patrick.boutw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> While looking up options, sites kept saying that it would continue to be
> free through the end of this year. Google has no official statement but I
> didn't want to set something up and only be able to use it for a month.
> Sent from my iPhone
> On Nov 5, 2012, at 10:04 PM, Bob Waldron <bwald...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Patrick -- just curious, where did you find out that Gvoice will be
> charging starting the first of the year? -- Bob
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Patrick Boutwell <
> patrick.boutw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been looking to add a home phone for local calling, but it seems
>> everything either requires a $300 box or a monthly plan. One option was to
>> buy a VOIP box for $45, and setup Google voice through it, however I guess
>> that will no longer be a free service come the first of the year. I can
>> always just bundle with TW, but I'd rather not add to my bill.
>> Does anyone have any ideas for setting something up?
This is what I use http://www.myxlink.com/index.aspx. It converts land line phones acting as a pstn for the land lines and then bluetooth's to cell to make the call. There is always linux asterisk. The current price (69-89) is more than half of what I paid. Carl
On Monday, November 5, 2012 9:04:46 PM UTC-6, Patrick wrote:
> I've been looking to add a home phone for local calling, but it seems > everything either requires a $300 box or a monthly plan. One option was to > buy a VOIP box for $45, and setup Google voice through it, however I guess > that will no longer be a free service come the first of the year. I can > always just bundle with TW, but I'd rather not add to my bill.
> Does anyone have any ideas for setting something up?
> This is what I use http://www.myxlink.com/index.aspx. It converts land
> line phones acting as a pstn for the land lines and then bluetooth's to
> cell to make the call. There is always linux asterisk. The current price
> (69-89) is more than half of what I paid.
> Carl
> On Monday, November 5, 2012 9:04:46 PM UTC-6, Patrick wrote:
>> I've been looking to add a home phone for local calling, but it seems
>> everything either requires a $300 box or a monthly plan. One option was to
>> buy a VOIP box for $45, and setup Google voice through it, however I guess
>> that will no longer be a free service come the first of the year. I can
>> always just bundle with TW, but I'd rather not add to my bill.
>> Does anyone have any ideas for setting something up?
