[Discuss] AT&T eliminating copper phone lines

[bill at horne.net (Bill Horne)]

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On 3/29/2017 3:58 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> I also recommend porting to Callcentric.
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 08:05:18AM -0700, Rich Braun wrote:
>> +1 to trying a port to Google Voice. I subscribed to it a couple months before
>> my move to San Francisco, just so I could get a 415 phone number to give out
>> to friends before the move. (Wound up keeping my 617 mobile number ever since,
>> weird... but yeah I understand the advantages of keeping the same number for a
>> couple decades, which is why I keep it.)
>>
>> I've been using an Obitalk VOIP gateway and the free Google Voice service as
>> my primary landline for almost 6 years now. I too have long been
>> hard-of-hearing, and it's truly annoying how the mobile-phone companies
>> persist in over-compressing voice calls at a time of plenty in back-end
>> network bandwidth.
>>
>> Get an Obi200 VOIP unit ($47.46 on Amazon), sign up for Google Voice (still
>> free) on a random phone number and try it out with your current Internet
>> service and current telephone handset. I think you'll be amazed at how much
>> better than a cell phone it is. If you like it, then you can port your
>> long-time number to Google Voice (probably).
>>
>> -rich
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