Subj : Dead Phone LIne.
To   : ROSS CASSELL
From : JAY EMRIE
Date : Sun Nov 28 2004 09:14 pm

RC>28 Nov 04 13:20, you wrote to Jay Emrie:

RC> CS> Or, look into one of those new voice over the internet protocol phone
RC> CS> services.  My son (in Atlanta, GA) just contracted with Vonage to
RC> CS> switch his phone services over using the new protocol.

RC>As have I, any day now my old phone number will transfer over and my 
landline
RC>goes dead.

RC> CS> I see some advantages to it and some disadvantages.  I'd like to save
RC> CS> money on my local phone service if I could but for now it's not
RC> CS> possible with Verizon.

RC>Verizon does offer it.

RC>They call their offering "voicewing".

RC> CS>   Only AT&T (around here anyway) provides that
RC> CS> service.  Cost is reasonable - $29.95 per month for unlimited local
RC> CS> and long distance service.

RC>Vonage is $25/month unlimited, they have a cheaper plan for 500 minutes of 
use.

RC> CS>   Of course you must have either cable or
RC> CS> telephone DSL already installed in order for it to work.  Neither SBC
RC> CS> nor Verizon offers that service "yet".

RC>The one rub I see is for DSL subscribers as they usually have to maintain a
RC>arrangement with the local telco anyway, in my case my broadband is cable.

Having cable is in a way the same as having DSL. Here in order to have
cable internet one must also subscribe to cable TV, unless I
misunderstood the cable people.

Jay
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