On Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 1:26:49 PM UTC-5, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
On 05/26/2015 01:39 PM, trader_4 wrote:

I forgot one thing, someday maybe, the telcos might go the way of cable,
etc. and have only digital coming to you house on the copper pair, like
DSL or Uverse.

IDK what you mean here. The Telcos have been offering DSL, which is
digital, for two decades. That era is winding down, for the most part
as they move to better technologies for most customers.
Yes I agree and what I mean is basically quit using regular analog
phones and put the phones on the digital on higher speed carrier along
with the computer data. Of course once could do this using things like
Skype, but is not the norm for most people.


The VOIP is already with the internet data. That's why it's
called VOIP. For example, you get high speed internet service
from your cable company. They give you a modem/router that has
a phone interface built into it. The conversion to digital
happens at the modem/router box. The VOIP traffic then goes out on
the same internet cable connection as your other internettraffic.

With that model established and so many good, cheap, cordless phones
out there, I don't see the compelling need for changing things
and doing the conversion to digital at the phone, as opposed to how
it's done now. You'd have to continue to support the phones looking
for an analog interface for decades too, so you'd have two differing
ways of doing it, for no big advantage that I can see.

We got rid of our AT&T landline years ago and ported the number to the
T-Mobile@Home $10/mo. add-on to our cell-phone plan. When we switched to
a no-contract prepaid plan we couldn't keep T-Mobile@Home, so we bought
an Obihai VOIP adapter and ported the number to Google Voice. Now we
have another number (which we give only to family members) from
PhonePower ($5x.xx per year, IIRC), and the "public" Google Voice number
forwards to that. In the house we have six Panasonic cordless phones
that serve as an intercom system as well.

Perce

I have two MagicJacks, one original USB only and one that works on the network too. I have 12/2mbs Internet service from the cable company and the voice quality for the MagicJacks is excellent. Since I'm not at home right now, I get my messages from the two MJ numbers via my Email. 8-)

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