alan_m wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Broadback wrote

Any recommendations as to phone and source please?

IMO its time to give up on line phones, essentially because
its so easy to get an unlimited mobile phone service with free unlimited
calls and texts and MMS to any landline or mobile in the country for
something like $10/month and
so you have an integrated set of contacts and call history
for much cheaper than a landline service now.

Are you assuming that you don't need to have a landline for broadband
internet,

No, that you dont bother with the landline anymore
even if one does come with the broadband service,
because you only get spam calls on it now and its
a lot more convenient to have all incoming and
outgoing calls on a smartphone which has a fully
integrated backup system so that even if the
smartphone does die or gets stolen or lost, it
is trivial to replace it, restore the backup and
carry on regardless with the replacement.

the $10/month includes 10s or 100s of GBytes of data

No, that you continue to do that with the
broadband thats in the house or work.

and that reception of mobile in everyones[ house is perfect?

You obviously wouldnt do it if the mobile service
in the house isnt fine. Doesnt need to be perfect.

Once you are paying line rental you may as well just attach a phone to it.

Thats wrong too when all you get on it is spam now.
Yes, it may be handy to continue to have a handset
available in case the mobile service at your house
does die for a while and you need to call out, but
even then, it makes more sense not leave it plugged
in so you never even notice any spam calls.