SP1 and SP2 confusion with traditional corded phone
Lafong:
Proftech:
I already have Google set up for incoming and outgoing at no charge. I’ll likely add Callcentric for 911 at 1.50 per month. If I some day choose to get rid of Google, I’ll probably go with Callcentric for 911 and incoming/outgoing on a per minute basis. I figure that would be about 3.45 per month plus roughly a dollar an hour I’m actually on the phone. Total bill should rarely be even $5 a month.
My remaining concern is the uptime reliability of my new phone service, which has multiple fail points: Google, Obi, Callcentric, Internet provider, power outage, or the Panasonic phone itself.
I’ve been without Internet service for about 10 hours in the last year and without phone service for only 2 or 3 hours. It remains to be seen how much Google, Obi, and Callcentric would add to the phone downtime.
Thus the search for a last resort cheap fallback emergency method. Anything that is say $10 a month or more is pointless—I’d be better off without the Obi and just use my old service at maybe $15 or $18, with greater reliability.
SDB:
It doesn’t look like T-Mobile or TracPhone have much application to my situation, particularly since as you say they can change the terms at any moment.
I may take a look around Walmart.
In the meantime, I’ll keep evaluating my uptime with my current configuration and decide if I want to risk simply not having phone service from time to time. That generally wouldn’t bother me, excluding police, fire, or medical emergencies.
Any further ideas welcome--particularly your personal levels of phone downtime using VoIP.
ProfTech:
Regarding downtime - Most of my down time has been a result of my internet service provider. That said, I've been using them since 2007 and they have only been down 2 or 3 times but the longest was about 2 days. :( As another poster said, Callcentric did have issues back in September / October 2012 but I am satisfied they were hacker related and they corrected them. These days if you're going to use the public internet for anything at all stuff like that can happen. When the hurricane hit NYC I was amazed they were only down for about 48 hours. Anyway, your mileage may vary.
sdb-:
Quote from: Lafong on November 01, 2013, 06:04:09 am
It doesn’t look like T-Mobile or TracPhone have much application to my situation, particularly since as you say they can change the terms at any moment.
I may take a look around Walmart.
While they can change, Walmart is in the same situation. And while I don't trust T-Mo very much, I trust walmart even less.
It's hard to beat spending $100 plus the phone for the first year of cell phone service and $10 per year after that. (Actually that first year could be 395 days if you wait for the full 30 days after activating the phone before applying the $100 refill. I'd refill a day early just to be safe.)
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